Posted on 01/06/2017 4:57:22 PM PST by mdittmar
The incoming Trump administration is primed to privatize America, putting at risk our retirement security, the health of our seniors, the safety of publicly-run prisons, the quality of public education and the integrity of other public services Americans depend on every day.
The nonprofit group In the Public Interest has identified 32 members of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet and transition team who either have close ties to for-profit companies and groups that support privatizing (outsourcing) public services, or have expressed support for privatization.
As the Nation reports, if these officials get their way “America’s schools, roads, air-traffic-control systems, prisons, immigrant-detention centers, and critical social-insurance programs will soon fall into private hands.”
“What privatization is all about, fundamentally, is a grab for the gold,” Donald Cohen, executive director of In the Public Interest, told AFSCME. “Government in America spends $6 to $7 trillion a year and they (privateers) want a piece of it. They want the gold and they want the power. The power gives them the ability to get the cash.”
The privatization advocates are supported by right-wing politicians “who … see the value of breaking unions, who are (labor’s) major opponents politically, and in terms of making government smaller,” Cohen said.
AFSCME is a staunch opponent of privatizing public services. Learn how it hurts wages, benefits, the economy and the stability of middle- and working-class families.
(Excerpt) Read more at afscme.org ...
Air Traffic Control was privatized in Canada. See “Nav Canada”
“Air Traffic Control was privatized in Canada. See “Nav Canada””
I know...but doesn’t change my position on it.
Agreed!
I don’t think I would support privatization of U.S. Prisons...not sure it would be best to have a profit motive for having more people in jail and it not like there are “competing” prisons for their “clients” to choose between...it is not a market driven commodity like some things that could be privatized and actually become more efficient.
Anyone have any different thoughts on this?
The PO is not priority of doing there works. It became a social programs. Just like the efficient of the TSA.
Professionalism government-style . . . the old Soviet Union could never have matched it.
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