If I hear this word one more time I will puke....

[Roy Rolling]

"Privatize"

As in "privatize Medicare", or "privatize Social Security". That word should be stricken from use. The real meaning of that term is "profitize", as in "they want to profitize Social Security". It is not about "private versus public"---that is the propaganda these swindlers want people to swallow. The battle lines are drawn between citizen-sponsored programs versus corporate, for-profit sponsored programs.

And how can something be less expensive when you provide the same service PLUS squeeze profit out of it for company owners? It's a fallacy, it can't happen.

So the next time someone says "PRIVATIZE" correct them by saying "you mean "PROFITIZE".

It makes more sense---I do not want them to profitize Social Security.

[liberal N proud]

1. Profitize would be correct definition

[amborin]

10. +1

[Rhiannon12866]

17. +2

:(

[eomer]

18. It's worse than that, actually. Loot is more like it.

Profitize sounds as if they will earn profits when in reality it is usually just straight out looting from the public.

[Enthusiast]

24. PLUS ONE! nt

[Maat]

36. +3 (n/t)

[slackmaster]

2. It's better than rictus

Please don't turn this into a rictus thread.

[kentuck]

3. You make a good point.

They would not want to privatize if they could not make profits. Profitize is a more accurate term.

[Little Star]

4. Thank you for bring this to our attention. I'll be using profitize from now on!

[Urban Prairie]

5. Profitizing Medicare would obviously require denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions of

those born with and/or who eventually will acquire illnesses and diseases. So who in their "right" mind (that is, IF their illness(es) or disease(s) do not or have not as yet affected them mentally or their minds remain largely or completely intact) would even bother paying monthly or bi-weekly into a program or programs that would not reimburse health care providers for services rendered (or much more likely as yet un-rendered) that could be "somehow" linked in any way to their existing symptoms and condition(s), since many, if not most "for-profit" medical insurance companies already are notorious for denial of claims through using just those tactics?

[RevStPatrick]

6. That's very good!

I have long known that "privatization" meant squeezing profit out of something that was never for-profit before. This is an excellent way of framing it.

[Octafish]

7. Worked for the Pentagon and Halliburton.

Cheney, first as SecDef and then as Halliburton CEO, made sure of it.

[ImNotTed]

8. I thought it was gonna be "Liberty"

Ever notice how the wingnuts use that word so much more often than "freedom"?

[salinen]

9. My pukeworthy term is

"shared sacrifice".

[Enthusiast]

25. There are many pukeworthy terms.

That is a good one.

[lark]

58. Totally agree

because somehow the sacrifice is always "shared" by the lower class and always seems to totally bypass even a hint of sharing from the upper class.

[kenny blankenship]

11. Piratize and Parasitize are good synonyms

When not repeating a word or phrase for rhythmic emphasis, it is well to employ synonyms in your prose, to avoid monotony.

[glinda]

12. Profitize is exactly it.

[Maru Kitteh]

13. Thanks! That's an EXCELLENT idea. I plan to use it well. n/t

[hootinholler]

14. Mine is Homeland

I was born in the Heartland and I want it back!

-Hoot

[Kablooie]

15. Actually it's more like 'exploit for personal gain'

[Gemini Cat]

16. That's the word.

Profitize. Thanks, I will use this!

[scarletwoman]

19. Very good!

:thumbsup:

[Atypical Liberal]

20. New meme: Privatize = Profitize!

[swilton]

21. You forgot to mention the other side of Tweedle Dee

'Deregulate' - the solution to all that ails us :sarcasm:

[NewJeffCT]

22. "Privatize" already has a stigma attached to it

Which was why Bush in 2005-2006 called it "Personal accounts" for Social Security and not privatizing Social Security, which it really was.

Why change privatizing if it already has a stigma attached to it?

[Enthusiast]

26. The stigma isn't great enough

to illustrate the hardships it will cause.

[PatSeg]

34. This is so true

There are so many people who still think making anything profit oriented is a positive thing. To them the "private" sector is so much more efficient than the "public" sector. They must be the ones who haven't lost their health insurance because of a serious illness yet.

[Enthusiast]

40. They never hear a contrary argument.

When we lost the media we lost everything. If single payer was discussed on TV by a panel of "experts" the American people would be sold. Unfortunately they have only heard manufactured misinformation about systems like the Canadian system. But the American people still favor a single payer system!

How much longer will the insurance industry and the for-profit health care industry be able to bully the American people into accepting overpriced care? The insurance industry should come around now so they still have a seat at the table. Because the American people are convinced -this system sucks and it needs to change.

[PatSeg]

45. The "For profits" control the media

and as such, the message. Years ago medicine, health insurance, and pharmaceuticals were strictly regulated and were nonprofit. They weren't even allowed to advertise. Now we can see that there was a good reason for it.

Greed is always looking for an opportunity and without oversight or regulation, will do whatever it takes to make a profit.

[Enthusiast]

23. K&R

Right when we should be removing the 'profit motive' from all health care everything the right wing fascists want to profitize even more of the health care system.

[malaise]

27. They should replace it with steal

they are looting the public good.

[stockholmer]

28. commoditize is another synonym, and by this I do not mean to make plentiful, I mean that they want

to put a price on EVERYTHING so it can be financialized, and thus profited from, or put into a state of artificial scarcity by the so-called free market. The speculation and rigged-market crony-capitalism takes over, and gives you the present day paradigms of distortions and death.

[Maine-i-acs]

29. Don't forget prisons and schools!

They are after that money too.

[OwnedByFerrets]

30. And expounded....Profitize for the RICH.

[Somawas]

31. "Steal" would be more accurate.

[grahamhgreen]

37. +1

[valerief]

32. Profitize. Excellent! nt

[vanbean]

33. This is the post of the month!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Arkansas Granny]

35. Yes. Profitize is much more truthful that privatize.

[PADemD]

38. Permission to use this in a letter to the editor?

[Blue Owl]

39. I always thought 'privatizer' fit GWB more than 'decider'

For them it's all about turning every goddamned facet of our country into a for-profit business.

[grahamhgreen]

41. How 'bout PIMP-itize, or Plunderize or BURGLARIZE???

Or PIRATE-ize, OR PILFER-IZE....

I think "profitize" is a little too heady.

[defendandprotect]

42. kr -- I'd also add that as we "profitize" we are further enriching corporate/fascism...

which already has us by the throat --

[joanbarnes]

43. Use auto correct in your writing: privitize=profitize

[SHRED]

44. private contractors soak the public

Like pigs at the trough.

[theophilus]

46. I'll see your "Profitize" and raise you "corporate media". I wish the

term "mainstream media" would vanish and be replaced by "corporate". Mainstream could be interpreted as a good thing. It's not true, anyway. The corporations own the media and it should be pointed out. Americans need to realize who the enemy is.

[BEZERKO]

47. Here's a better one:

Privateer

[tavalon]

48. Profitize is right

Thank you.

[classof56]

49. Very good one--and thanks!

Have now added "profitize" to my lexicon.

Tired Old Cynic

[locahungaria]

50. May I join you????

:puke:

K&R!

[Auggie]

51. HUGE K & R!

Spot on, RR

[Zoeisright]

52. It's not the same service, either.

Corporations are going to find every way they can to screw their customers. Besides privatized services costing more, they provide LESS service. That's one way corporations get more profit.

[ctsnowman]

53. K&R

Love the way you framed it.

[Hubert Flottz]

54. Plunder or Pillage would be more like it...

[russspeakeasy]

55. great word, "profitize".

[HillWilliam]

56. In this house, we use the term "piratize"

since it seems that's exactly what's happening.

[trud]

57. pop

That's the word that came to mind when I read the title. It's infected the English language from those idiot decorating shows.

[Glaisne]

59. I hate all these goddamn conservative buzzwords and phrases

like:

privatize
deregulate
personal responsibility
free markets
tax cuts
fiscal responsibility
morality
job killing
states rights

it's all part of a plutocratic propaganda speak designed to push buttons and illicit responses from nonthinking ignorant flying monkeys and obfuscate the true agenda of the oligarchs. The country swallows this idiotic pablum whole while our country is systematically destroyed. It's part of a conservative narrative that sells people a fairy tale and hides their true agenda and it works because too many people are too lazy to think and learn.

[patrice]

60. And no one but anti-gov't cheerleaders need apply!!! because they will eject you and,

whatever it is, being a private economic entity, there's practically NOTHING anyone can do about it.

[patrice]

61. Question re "profitize": Can't the same thievery apply to "non-profits", e.g. "faith-based initiativ

es"?

They may not make "profits", but they do provide jobs and in a down, jobless, economy, though there is no profit incentive, those jobs ARE funded on the backs of the poor, so anyone who rocks that boat, say, for standards or quality of service issues, find themselves completely expendable.

[Imagevision]

62. Get use to it - it is "profitize"