The Principles of Freedom vs. Public/Private Partnerships-CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

www.canadafreepress.com/ ^ | August 15, 2007 | Tom DeWeese,

[B4Ranch]

Property Rights activist and ranger, Wayne Hage said, "Either you have the right to own property or you are property." The backbone of the plan was a call for "public/private partnerships."

Sustainable Development is not freedom. Not one of the three principles apply.

[hedgetrimmer]

No he wasn’t. But he used the EPA to introduce Agenda 21, via the executive branch, through the recommendations of the ‘President’s Council on Sustainable Development’.

GW Bush has become a master of using the executive office to circumvent constitutional government.

[hedgetrimmer]

Yer welcome!

[Calpernia]

>>>No he wasn’t. But he used the EPA to introduce Agenda 21, via the executive branch, through the recommendations of the ‘President’s Council on Sustainable Development’.

Yes. bump

Don’t forget the NRPE either.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1793524/posts?page=4#4

[texastoo]

The link doesn’t work for me.

[texastoo]

GW Bush has become a master of using the executive office to circumvent constitutional government.

That sentence needs repeating often.

[calcowgirl]

It didn’t work for me either—nor did the entire website.

But it works now!

Try this:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/2007-tom-deweese.htm

[calcowgirl]

Outstanding set of articles. Well worth the read:

The Principles of Freedom vs. Public/Private Partnerships

By Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center

PART ONE: TWO WAY PARTNERSHIPS

PART TWO: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Since 1994, under NAFTA, the U.S. trade deficit has soared and now approaches $1 trillion per year. The U.S. has lost some 1.5 million jobs and real wages in the U.S. have fallen significantly.”

Bottom line!

[calcowgirl]

There are all sorts of little pearls in these articles. I liked this one:

NAFTA, under close examination appears to be little more than a redistribution of the wealth scheme. Profiting from it are a few select corporations, which get wealthy in their elite partnerships with government while American jobs, industry and wealth get redistributed to other nations.

And this one:

PPPs are one of the reasons many people find they can no longer fight city hall. The private companies gain the power of government to do as they please - and the governments earn the independence of the companies, no longer needing to answer to voters. It's the perfect partnership. But it's not freedom.

Such a process allows the private companies to be little more than government-sanctioned monopolies, answerable to no one. Their power is awesome and near absolute. Some call such policy corporatism. Another term would be corporate fascism.

Arnie is on the verge of pushing some $50+ billion in "Public Private Partnerships" for Transportation and Flood Control programs in California. Hopefully, the electorate and our State legislators will wake up before that.

[calcowgirl]

In fact, that Spanish-American partnership in Texas and its lease with the Texas Department of Transportation to build and run the Trans Texas Corridor contains a "no-compete" clause which prohibits anyone, including the Texas government from building new highways or expanding exiting ones which might run in competition with the TCC.

That is not free enterprise. And it's not protecting the second principle of freedom - private property.

With inside information from its own Public/Private Partnership, Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCSR) has been able to grow overnight from a two-bit belt around Kansas City to controlling a 2,600-mile artery from Lazaro Cardenas to Kansas City, straight up the Trans Texas Corridor. KCSR has obtained the rail rights up the corridor. It is now a government-sanctioned monopoly.

Protected from competition, the railroad will set the costs and the shipping rules ...

FYI--Long but worthwhile.

[stephenjohnbanker]

You were struck by the same lines that I was.

“redistribution of wealth”

“corporate facsism”

etc.

[B4Ranch]

I just tried it and it’s still working.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/deweese081507.htm

[B4Ranch]

If only more people could find these articles *interesting* we would have a government that would be too frightened to even try deception.

[calcowgirl]

If only more people could find these articles *interesting* we would have a government that would be too frightened to even try deception.

I agree. I keep thinking of more people to ping to the aticles; unfortunately they are the ones that already have an appreciation of the problems.

[calcowgirl]

You missed “common good.” ;-)

[SierraWasp]

bump!!! AND BOOKMARKED!!! (good job you two!)

This crappola and "Regionalism" go back to at least FDR's extended presidency, with the unconstitutional thrust inspired first by TR! (the other NY Roosevelt)

I cannot trust ANY GovernMental executive, either state, or national who cannot abide by "A nation of laws, rather than of men!" (regardless of political party)

[stephenjohnbanker]

“You missed “common good.” ;-)”

Sorry :-)

[Calpernia]

I wish we had more ideas on how to stop it.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

These public/private partnerships are sneaking their way into the courts.

A lazy, money hungry judiciary and frivolous lawsuits are driving these 501(c)tax-exempt corporations (i.e., “nonprofit” private mediation services) that are soon to be secret star chambers of judicial decisions so the lawyers can hide themselves away from accountability...

[antisocial]

Thanks for posting this, I just read it on EnterStageright.com and was searching to see if it had been posted. Should we ping the usual “free trade” radicals here, and see what they have to say about this? Probably not, they only can defend their side with ridicule and insults.