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In reply to the discussion: Why is the "private sector" better than the "public sector"? [View all]shcrane71
(1,721 posts)74. If divide & conquer didn't work, politicians and corporations wouldn't use it. nt
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I got a public sector job in 1972.....when all my friends went to college....my parents couldn't
a kennedy
Jun 2012
#9
AND most of the so-called "private sector" jobsl contract with the government and steal
nanabugg
Jun 2012
#34
You have hit on the reason that the greedy capitalists were so afraid of the Soviet Union.
MnExpat
Jun 2012
#5
Marks and Engles both agreed that revolution sometimes has comes from the barrel of a gun
MnExpat
Jun 2012
#15
You would be justified in saying that if the Soviet Union didn't last ~65 years
tralala
Jun 2012
#76
The same is true for public sector workers. Who do you think public employee unions represent?
badtoworse
Jun 2012
#33
Nobody ever got a job before there were public school teachers to teach them how to read.
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#90
In my (non-economist) opinion money derives its value from the good and services you can buy with it
badtoworse
Jun 2012
#105
So you believe we don't have a government that spends money into the economy?
girl gone mad
Jun 2012
#96
The private sector provided the money that enabled the government to do those things
badtoworse
Jun 2012
#106
When I did an assignment for the government way back when in 2004, I saw the memo
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2012
#10
Yes. Privatization = corruption. It's about pay-offs to buddies and campaign supporters.
JDPriestly
Jun 2012
#20
This is an important point. It's not just abstract philosophy and ideology for the privatizers.
limpyhobbler
Jun 2012
#24
absolutely...explains school vouchers - friends own private schools - more people go - more
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2012
#61
It's not especially in a service economy you get low paying jobs like fast food and retail with no
craigmatic
Jun 2012
#16
Because rich people can make a killing exploiting the private sector. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2012
#17
i am sure as shit happy those firefighters keeping my happy self safe tonight are public employees
fizzgig
Jun 2012
#25
Because we are run by small town plutocracies that want to get their hands directly
Baitball Blogger
Jun 2012
#26
I've encountered bat crazy libertarians who have suggested just such a thing
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2012
#94
The idea is that the one must pay for the other--the "public sector" is not self-supporting. nt
Romulox
Jun 2012
#38
I don't disagree (at all). The point STILL remains: the "public sector" requires tax revenue to
Romulox
Jun 2012
#66
It seems to me that the teaching profession is supporting the entire structure of civilization
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jun 2012
#103
The argument that private enterprise is less bureaucratic is absolutely ludicrous.
randome
Jun 2012
#47
He is targeting the wrong "Public Sector" Overpaid Congressmen and Senators is where the fat needs
Tuesday Afternoon
Jun 2012
#59
If "the public sector is "sponging" off of the value produced by the private sector..."
kentuck
Jun 2012
#73
This is an incomplete view of the role of the government in a modern economy.
girl gone mad
Jun 2012
#84
If divide & conquer didn't work, politicians and corporations wouldn't use it. nt
shcrane71
Jun 2012
#74
I guess I must have not paid attention during my 6 years of economics studies
IndyPragmatist123
Jun 2012
#116
It's not better. It's much bigger and much more important to the economy in terms of job creation.
slackmaster
Jun 2012
#89