None Dare Call It Privatization

from OnTheCommons.org:




None Dare Call It Privatization
Tom Tresser reports from a high-powered conference spelling out a new strategy for raiding the commons

By Tom Tresser


At the Hyatt Lodge Hotel on the McDonald’s corporate campus in Oak Brook, Illinois, June 24, the other wingtip dropped.

It happened at a conference called “It’s Not Privatization: Implementing Partnerships in Illinois”, organized by The National Council for Public-Private Partnerships and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce with assistance from the Metropolitan Planning Council .

The conference revealed the corporate sector’s designs on the commons in Illinois, and how they intended to duck the increasingly unpopular label of privatization.

In recent years Chicago has become an epicenter of privatization. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://onthecommons.org/none-dare-call-it-privatization

Thanks for the thread, marmar.

That is because they want corporate control.

This is fascism pure and simple.

They should pay higher taxes and let the public decide what to do with the tax revenue.

Title: "Please Have Your Credit Card Ready"


With all the recent talk about doing away with unions and taxes, shrinking government and growing privatization, I thought it might be fun to look into the not too distant future.

Citizen X: Is this the Town Hall?

GreedyLazy Govt Worker: Well it used to be. We've been sold off to Hallihurtin.

Citizen X: But, there's sludge coming out of my sink.

GreedyLazy Govt Worker: Here's their 800 number. I gotta go. Smogress Energy is taking over this office today.

Citizen X: But...

Citizen X dials Hallihurtin.

Call Center Message: You have reached Hallihurtin Global Customer Service Center. If you are a Gold Level shareholder, press 1. Silver Level shareholder, press 2. All other customers, please stay on the line.

49 minutes later..

Call Center Rep: Thank you for calling Hallihurtin, may I have your name please.

Citizen X: Listen, I got no water. There's sludge coming out of my sink, my toilet won't flush, and my washing machine's ruined.

Call Center Rep: I understand sir. I need your Hallihurtin Municipal Services account number.

Citizen X: Listen, fella, I need some help here. I got no water.

Call Center Rep: I understand sir. A field service agent should be at your residence within the next 5 to 7 business days.

Citizen X: Five to seven days? Are you serious? Listen I pay my tax..oh. Um, listen, this aint right.

Call Center Rep: Sir, if you would like, we can upgrade your account to our Glass Half Full service. We're running a special this month for $89.95, that includes one hour of free on site service, subject to restrictions in some areas.

Citizen X: Well, this just isn't right. I'm going to bring this up at the next town council meeting.

Call Center Rep: That's very quaint sir. Technically, the "town" of Burnsville ceased to exist 90 days ago. The entity and all of it's assetts were acquired by Muncipal Services LLC, a capital investment enterprise incuding, but not limited to, Halliburton, Smoggress Energy, and The Murdock Fund. M.S. LLC is incorporated in Dubai and licensed to operate in the United States under the Tea Tax Freedom Act of 2011. Sir? Sir?


So all you good folks clammering for doing away with taxes and unions, get ready to have big business billionaires sucking the very meat off your bones.