Reply #154: no it isn't

[William Z. Foster]

No matter how many times you repeat this, it is still false.

It is not sinking in, which is what you are hoping for, because things have gone too far and people are starting to question the whole stinking racket of "partnerships" between government and corporations. People are starting to wake up. People are rejecting this idea that we must trust the very perps who cause the disaster, and that we must continue to apply the same anti-government pro-corporate thinking that created the dangerous situation in the first place.

You argue strenuously against the very concept of federalizing the disaster response, and then when that doesn't work turn around and claim that it is federalized.

Many here, sadly, have either forgotten or never knew what a true federalized response would look like. Were that not true, these talking points you continue to post over and over again would get no serious consideration from anyone.

What you are saying is true in a bizarre and chilling way - the response is in a sense both federalized and privatized, because the line between where corporations end and government begins has been so blurred. That is not something any of us should be accepting, let alone promoting. Yet you are - relentlessly and aggressively.

So keep pounding on your theme here, but don't be surprised if it doesn't sink in as effectively as it did when you were pounding it on behalf of Wall Street and promoting the bail outs.