Privatization, dubbed piratization by critics, refers to the sale of publicly owned assets to the private sector.

Privatization is nothing more than a right wing scheme for fleecing taxpayers of their money while giving them as little as possible in return.

Privatization and the Bush Crime Family desire to privatize all military function in Iraq, as well as all of Iraq's economy, is why we are mired in an illegal, strategically suicidal occupation of a foreign country we never should have invaded in the first place.

Halliburton, Blackwater Mercenary Company, DynCorp and Ellis Environmental are just a few news makers of the hundreds of private companies, awash in millions of tax payer dollars, who have completely failed to do the jobs the American military has always done so well and with little or no private sector interference.

Privatization is promoted by people who do not believe in common good, shared experience, shared responsibility or government in any form. Their aim is to destroy government, the treasonous bastards.

And right now, as I type, the Bush administration is putting the polish on privatization of national security in the form of outsourcing intelligence services and dispensing mega million dollars of taxpayer money contracts to defense contractors like Lockheed, Boeing and others, to monitor the traffic of the Internet, listen to our phone calls, build an apartheid wall in Texas, affix cameras to every street corner so that all our actions can be watched and catalogued and so on. They are building a police state for profit.

Famous proponents of privatization like Dick Cheney, Grover Norquist and Donald Rumsfeld will stop at nothing to bring their privatization schemes to life, including war crimes, mass murder, breaking tax and campaign finance laws, lying, cheating and otherwise abusing power.

The private sector is not more efficient, especially when it does the work of government by going that work though favoritism and no bid contracts. The private sector is not accountable for its failure to do the jobs government aha always done so well, from putting men on the moon to serving millions of sick people with medicare and millions of elderly with social security and millions of children with publicly funded education to delivering billions upon billions of pieces of mail.

The Bush administration has has privatized as much of our collective wealth and resources as it can. That was the aim, apparently of Chimperor Governance: selling off roads and bridges, prisons and schools, wars and water, even the voting system - selling off government itself.

It may be private companies dropping the ball. screwing up in Iraq and here at home, but TAX DOLLARS still pay for it. Private companies, concerned only with profit, are not capable of doing the job of government.

Contents

• 1 Examples
  • 1.1 Privatization of airports, bridges and public roads
  • 1.2 Airports
  • 1.3 Bridges
  • 1.4 State and federal highways
  • 1.5 Privatization of correctional facilities
  • 1.6 Privatization of education
  • 1.7 Privatization of essential services
  • 1.8 Privatization of government information
  • 1.9 Privatization of health care
  • 1.10 Privatization of Iraq
  • 1.11 Privatization of Latin America
  • 1.12 Privatization of police powers
  • 1.13 Privatization of public air waves
  • 1.14 Privatization of public policy by GOP, Inc.
  • 1.15 Privatization of Social Security
  • 1.16 Privatization of U.S. Government
  • 1.17 Privatization of water resources
• 2 Resources and articles
  • 2.1 Related SourceWatch articles
  • 2.2 References
  • 2.3 External articles