Since Reagan, the middle class has been molded to accept this
absurdity: "Government of the people is always evil and the invisible
hand of the market is God's will."
This blind faith hopes that unaccountable greed, always seeking to
maximize profit and power, will bring improved outcomes over a
government bureaucracy charged with seeking the public good. This main
stream ideology is Orwellian absurdity on its face! If people would
look beyond the corporate charts and pseudo scientific propaganda, they
would see that the data against privatization is overwhelming! (Clark
Park, kids for cash, and the national health system all show a similar
parasitic 60/40 ratio)
The problem always has been that government in a corrupt society serves
the interests of the elite criminal class, and less the common people.
Instead of demanding an accountable government that serves the people
like the Scandinavians have done, we've thrown our precarious Republic
to the wolves! Privatization is and depends upon an anti-union,
anti-poor anger, instilled in the middle class.
We've been rushing to put society's needs and human needs, in the hands
of insatiable unaccountable corporate greed and authoritarian hands.
When I listen to the mindless parroting of privatization sound bites, I
become pessimistic like Darco sometimes seems.
Over thirty years of Reaganist absurdity, the middle class has jumped
from the luke warm pot to the deep fryer!
Glenn
PS: Yesterday, Democracy Now covered the people of Greece and Egypt
fighting back:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/29/inside_greeces_general_strike_video_report
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/29/fierce_street_battles_in_egypt_as
On 6/30/2011 7:19 AM, Richard Conrad wrote:
i agree
On Jun 29, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Glenn wrote:
Marketing and branding the half million dollars for the Clark Park redesign as
"grants" worked very well for the plutocracy.
This technique is used a great deal in our empire to funnel taxpayer money to connected
organizations! The common people are always told to shut up and rally to "win"
these grants, as if citizens are cheering for their hometown baseball team! But the park
redesign would have been seen as extreme pork, if it were honestly reported as taxpayer
money!
Now that the Clark Park redesign actually sits in front of us, have folks been
thinking about how that half million dollars of taxpayer money was spent????
It seems like a ridiculous cost, when you look at the gravel pit and yellow
grass.
However, if you remember that corporate universities take a 2/3 cut of grant money, the
cost of the redesign makes more sense! (The 2/3 cut was publicly exposed with the
"grants" for the upscale lighting on Baltimore Ave. Those familiar with Penn
grant formulas know this 60/40 ratio.)
I wish people would recognize that privatization always costs the masses, who
pay taxes, MORE AND GIVES THEM LESS. (The deadly corporate health insurance
system is a classic example.) Instead of the city government controlling the
park, layers of contractors and subcontractors all extract more profits from
the remaining 1/3 of all available taxpayer monies.
Please look at the new Clark Park and think of how absurd a half million
dollars sounds! It doesn't matter if you see the redesign as destruction or
improvement.
Was the redesign worth half a million? Could half a million have been more beneficial for basic
maintenance in the neglected recreation centers around the city? Do "market solutions"
ever bring greater efficiency for public needs at lower cost, or is that always a lie told by those
hungry for profit and power? Should grants really be thought of as "free money?"
With open eyes,
Glenn
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