Koch-ALEC Plan To Privatize Government

[Tippy]

In These Times Publishes Exposé Of Koch-ALEC Plan To Privatize Government And Destroy Public Services | In These Times’s Beau Hodai has published an explosive new exposé of how the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers are conspiring with the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to promote and pass legislation nationwide that would privatize key government functions and sell off crucial public goods. The author tracks the effort of both the Kochs and ALEC across the country, including their pivotal role in crafting anti-labor legislation in Florida.




http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/11603/publicopoly_exposed/

[drm604]

1. K&R

Very important stuff. Thank you for posting this.

[cyberpj]

2. A VERY interesting section of the article. 'Paycheck Protection' disallows union dues deductions!

Blueprint for privatization

Should state employee unions be effectively prohibited from politicking, as “paycheck protection” legislation seeks to do, other pieces of ALEC model legislation seeking to privatize state functions would meet with less resistance. Three of these model bills—the Council on Efficient Government Act (CEGA), the State Council on Competitive Government Act (SCCGA) and the Public-Private Fair Competition Act (PPFCA)—call for the creation of state “councils” or “committees” tasked with streamlining state agency performance and identifying services to be outsourced to the private sector.

PPFCA calls for the broadest scope of privatization. The act seeks to prohibit state governments from “engaging in any commercial activity of any goods or services to or for government agencies or for public use which are also offered by private enterprise.” It also calls for the creation of “Private Enterprise Advisory Committees” (PEAC). The committee members—the majority of whom are business owners or corporate officers—would review what services, if any, government should continue to provide citizens.

[cyberpj]

3. I'm so discouraged that INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING LIKE THIS has to be sought and found on the Internet

Stories like this should be on every TV News Station in the country.

No wonder so many people don't care any more -- they don't even know what's really happening!

I don't even recognize this country as my own anymore. Which is exactly what I told my neighbors about my non-celebration of The 4th of July this year.

Oh. And here's the flag I did display:

[tosh]

4. How can pressure be exerted on IRS

to scrutinize the 501(c)(3) status that is being so blatantly violated by ALEC???

Would that best be approached through members of the Senate Subcommittee on Taxation & IRS Oversight?

[starroute]

9. ALEC has been violating its tax status since it was founded in the 1970s

So I wouldn't be real hopeful about getting anything to change now.

But on the other hand, it's flown under the radar for a long time, and that's getting harder for it to do, so maybe there's a chance.

[blm]

5. this is NWO's global fascist agenda...and they have TeaPartiers HELP pulling it off by misdirecting

their anxiety towards abortion and gun issues.

[pennylane100]

6. Well there are a lot of unemployed journalist/spy people in the UK

If they were able to look into what is really going on with these people. (sarcasm tag missing due to limited ability to understand anything technical)

[pansypoo53219]

7. it's funny. they are killing the golden goose.

i am reading french history in a 1891 encyclopedia britannica and i just got to the revolution of 1789 and the run up is SO like the rise of ronald reagan + boosh. NPR had an economist saying US growth stqarted to slow in the 70's. WHEN LOW TAX REPUBLIKKKANISM STARTED.


roll out the guillotines NOW.

[hootinholler]

8. Conspiring? I thought they founded ALEC.

:shrug:

-Hoot

[EC]

10. They can't think of any new industries or developments

so they go after the public services for privatization...repubs are just not innovative...is R&D dead in every industry? Why haven't the existing industries come up with new products or ideas to market?