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my fire department is a VOLUNTEER fire department,,,,yet the cost of 1 chief per house and the banquest halls of firehouse it outragous
and why not privatize things like garbage....my garbage is picked up by a PRIVATE company..it costs LESS than the towns , and they come DIRECTLY to the side of the house to get the can..I dont have to bring it to the street..and they are NEAT about it, and dont DAMAGE the cans like government workers do
Efficiency and cost of mission can be pretty much measured per the amount of functional independence from Government (and corruption) a contractor is allowed, or at what cost it can be maintained.
So, what's your point Can you cite any public benefit programs that can be better done by the government than by pivate companies? Excepting of course anything set up in the Constitution as mandated by the document such as the navy and the army. Clearly the government has proven repeatedly it can't compete with private enterprsie but rather is only supported by taxpayers when it has a monopoly, as it does on government schools.
c) corporate interests: profit at taxpayer expense
Examples?
The profits at taxpayer expenses are the crooked politicans who steal money from the taxpayers and route it toward their favorite bridges to nowhere or airports used by less than 1000 people per month.
Corporate interest like GE who pays no income tax and whose CEO is in bed with PBO? You mean like that? You mean like the drug and health care companies who bankroll elections so they can control their government puppets when it comes to price regulation? Corruption like this?
Oh please, cite some facts w/ links for proof, before you spew your vacuous bullya.
I seriously doubt there is any more or less political corruption in the US than Canada.
Either way, the solution is to eliminate the corruption. Not to expand government by having it run power companies.
I doubt that the corruption in Canadian politics is even 1% of that in the USA. It's not that Canadians are any more honest than anyone else. It's the system. The American is now and always has been very very easily corrupted. My goodness, "The spoils system" was the accepted way things were done for over half your history.
In Canada special interests either from the right, the left or the fringe can contribute any money whatsoever to politicians or political parties. When you take the money motive away then those who tend to be dishonest and corruptable look elsewhere than being public servants.
In my opinion the election of law enforcement officials, DA's and judges is just nuts!!! Politicians are crooked, period. They owe favours to the people who get them elected and when you make you justice system political it's the beginning of massive corruption from the top to the bottom.
I know it's difficult to get through your head the concept that the public can own Corporations and the government has very little to do with the running of those entities. What I find here in Canada it's just the opposite of what Americans claim about public corps. For example, the electric utility wants to raise rates let's say 5%. The government demands an outside audited statement showing why the rate increase is necessary. The government comes back with, We are not giving you a rate increase and we see economies that are available to you and we want a 5% decrease in rates. Governments have fallen because of poorly managed Crown Corps.
In Canadian hospitals the government wants $5 of service from the hospital while only spending $1. I really would not want to be the CEO of a health care unit here in Canada. You have to be able to squeeze water from stones to be successful.
In Canadian hospitals the government wants $5 of service from the hospital while only spending $1. I really would not want to be the CEO of a health care unit here in Canada. You have to be able to squeeze water from stones to be successful.
Is this why Canada, Grt Britain, and Sweden are all now taking steps to privatize parts of their health care systems?
And now even Canadian governments are looking to the private sector to shrink the waiting lists. Day’s clinic, for instance, handles workers’-compensation cases for employees of both public and private corporations. In British Columbia, private clinics perform roughly 80 percent of government-funded diagnostic testing. In Ontario, where fealty to socialized medicine has always been strong, the government recently hired a private firm to staff a rural hospital’s emergency room.
This privatizing trend is reaching Europe, too. Britain’s government-run health care dates back to the 1940s. Yet the Labour Party—which originally created the National Health Service and used to bristle at the suggestion of private medicine, dismissing it as “Americanization”—now openly favors privatization. Sir William Wells, a senior British health official, recently said: “The big trouble with a state monopoly is that it builds in massive inefficiencies and inward-looking culture.” Last year, the private sector provided about 5 percent of Britain’s nonemergency procedures; Labour aims to triple that percentage by 2008. The Labour government also works to voucherize certain surgeries, offering patients a choice of four providers, at least one private. And in a recent move, the government will contract out some primary care services, perhaps to American firms such as UnitedHealth Group and Kaiser Permanente.
Sweden’s government, after the completion of the latest round of privatizations, will be contracting out some 80 percent of Stockholm’s primary care and 40 percent of its total health services, including one of the city’s largest hospitals. Since the fall of Communism, Slovakia has looked to liberalize its state-run system, introducing co-payments and privatizations. And modest market reforms have begun in Germany: increasing co-pays, enhancing insurance competition, and turning state enterprises over to the private sector (within a decade, only a minority of German hospitals will remain under state control). It’s important to note that change in these countries is slow and gradual—market reforms remain controversial. But if the United States was once the exception for viewing a vibrant private sector in health care as essential, it is so no longer.
From telecommunications to retail, deregulation and market competition have driven prices down and quality and productivity up. Health care is long overdue for the same prescription.
The profits at taxpayer expenses are the crooked politicans who steal money from the taxpayers and route it toward their favorite bridges to nowhere or airports used by less than 1000 people per month.
Corporate interest like GE who pays no income tax and whose CEO is in bed with PBO? You mean like that? You mean like the drug and health care companies who bankroll elections so they can control their government puppets when it comes to price regulation? Corruption like this?
Nope.
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Oh please, cite some facts w/ links for proof, before you spew your vacuous bullya.
"COMPEATED" for? When does that happen? Can we not learn from history and CURRENT events? For example, Walker can sell the utilities to Koch (or whoever he chooses) for a penny if he wants to. Cronyism is the rule here- as proven over and over again.
Win/win for who? Win/win how?
Keep in mind a key tenet of Conservative ideology is based on maintainingi and expanding the power of the wealthy and corporate interests. They could give a damn as far as what's best of people as a whole or providing opportunities or services for people on the lower rungs of society.
Therefore it's perfectly acceptable amongst Conservatives for Governor Walker to sell off state assets for pennies on the dollar.
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