Originally Posted by pjwky

Well, Well: Does any of this surprise anyone?

The trend to make what was historically "publically owned & publically responsible organizations" a corporation victim is the Major Method that Administrations Have used to Transfere Public Tax Payer Monies to the Private Sector. Haliberton & Blackwater are good examples: together they have far more mercinaries in Iraq then the US government, and the money to pay for this comes from the public treasury to the corporate bank accounts.

Guess what, the Iraq war is good business for these corporations: vast public money it shifted into privately owned corporations: and large amounts of money are used to advance any cause that will continue & enhance these corporations profits from this war. Just one more big "thank you George Bush & Dick Cheney."

Another shift from public money to corporate bank accounts occurs with the privately owned prison systems. What is really scarry here, is that the huge private prison corporations also lobbies for longer prison sentences, and for less money to public education. [It seems that many studies have shown that in areas where education is enchance by public funds, there is less crime; of course less crime is not a profit maker for these private prison corporations.]

Therefore, it is really a valid public question as to wither or not we as a Nation want profit to the Corporate Owners to be the driving force behind such important policies as "War or Crime or Education." Crime & Punishment, Fighting Wars, & Public Education have always been entrusted to Our Government which in our nation is "supposedly" responsible to & owned by the American People: shifting these functions to the private sector is a travesty, and a not so subtle method of stealing money & decision-making from the American People. ...pjwky