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A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers
from Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality:
A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers
JULY 13, 2014
The outsourcing of public services to private go-getters has concentrated wealth the whole world over. The best answer to that concentration? That just may be new forms of public ownership.
By Sam Pizzigati
Analysts at the OECD, the Paris-based research agency, have just shared a grim prediction: If current trends prevail, all developed nations will show by 2060 the same level of inequality as currently experienced by the United States.
If we let those current trends continue, that conclusion sounds about right. But why on earth should we let those trends continue? The trends that have made our world so unequal dont reflect some inevitable unfolding of globalization. They reflect wrong-headed political decisions. We can make different decisions.
Take privatization. Over the past four decades, governments all around the world have chosen to privatize a broad array of public services. These privatizations have generated vast new concentrations of private wealth, among them the $75 billion fortune of Carlos Slim, the worlds second-richest single individual.
Our privatizers are still seeking new worlds to conquer. In the United States, for instance, theyre aggressively going after public education, a near $.7 trillion annual jackpot. But privatizers today are increasingly facing as much resistance as opportunity. All over the world, publics are beginning to reject the privatization mantra. The privatizers, turns out, have a problem with their pitch.
Privatization, as the Guardians Seumas Milne put it last week, isnt working. ...................(more)
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A New Gameplan for Taking Down Privatizers (Original Post)
marmar
Jul 2014
OP
WOW!! Absolute Must Read..I DARE one politician to make this their election mantra.
misterhighwasted
Jul 2014
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)1. WOW!! Absolute Must Read..I DARE one politician to make this their election mantra.
..and from this outstanding writing comes THIS book that has selectively been disappeared by the dumbed down drama of our monopolized media.
http://catalog.sevenstories.com/products/rich-dont-always-win
"The Rich Don't Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 19001970"
THIS is what real hope & change looks like. Spread the word & drown out the rhetoric, DU.
Thank You for posting
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)2. K&R to the Front Page
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Lodestar
(2,388 posts)3. "New forms of PUBLIC ownership"....EXCELLENT!!! K&R! They have privatized government too.
We also need to create PUBLIC think tanks to solve issues like this and get people invested in positive changes....bypassing corporate-funded government policy, because corporations have also privatized our government.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)4. I hope their overreach costs them their arms