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JoeyTrib Donating Member (215 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 02:09 PM
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Corporate healthcare, corporate education, corporate food stamps..connect the dots.



Forced austerity measures after a planned economic hit which creates overwhelming and unsustainable debt resulting in corporate control of every aspect of life.

Naomi Klein had it right:



One of those who saw opportunity in the floodwaters of New Orleans was Milton Friedman, grand guru of the movement for unfettered capitalism and the man credited with writing the rulebook for the contemporary, hypermobile global econony....Friedman's radical idea was that instead of spending a portion of the billions of dollars in reconstruction money on rebuilding and improving New Orleans' existing public school system, the government should provide families with vouchers, which they could spend at private institutions, many run a profit, that would be subsidized by the state. It was crucial, Friedman wrote, that this fundamental change not be a stopgap but rather "a permanent reform."

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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 02:17 PM
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1. Yep, been calling this for a long time
The give aways of public entities is socializing the cost while privatizing the profit.

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izquierdista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-14-11 02:42 PM
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2. Separated at parturition?

I'll take my chances with the one on the left.
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