The nightmare scenario when public services are privatized

No. It would be 1.7 billion dollars.

 

Sorry, raise it a nickel.

Instant profit.

 

Let them cut off expensive, unprofitable routes and see how fast the "profits" rise.

 

Do that and watch how many newspaper publishers start whining in op/ed pieces..

 

Gov. Christie's response - orders inspections, says it's not his fault...
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/gov_christie_calls_for_better.html

 

Fatboy's good at that.

 

From the story ...

"The newspaper reported that since Christie took office, the Department of Corrections paid Community Education $71 million, 22 percent more than it did when Gov. Jon Corzine left office, but the number of beds under contract has gone down 11 percent."

And the workers are supposedly making $10.50 an hour. So ... where's all that money going?

I'm pretty sure we can guess.

And Christie whines that half of the inmates the Times calls escapees were actually parollees. So having roughly 2,500 non-parolee inmates escape over seven years isn't a problem?

And of course, one of the VPs of the company, instead of defending themselves, or fuck, admitting that they're FUBAR, decides to attack the Times as being "liberal". Hey Palatucci, how many times have you worked a night shift by yourself with 300 dangerous inmates?

 

You almost get the impression that the rush to privatize stuff has more to do with fueling campaign donations from potential contractors and politicians avoiding being held accountable than it does about saving money.
And I really don't think privatization will protect a government from potential lawsuits.

 

The condition of that one particular facility is less a testament to the evils of privatization as it is yet another example of the evils of humankind.

My nephew was a guard at Riker's for about 2 years and some of the stuff he's told me about is enough to turn your stomach. Just really filthy, ugly, disgusting shit. I can't imagine the stuff he saw and can't bring himself to talk about.

There are state-run prisons like that all over America, and they're just as bad as anything that goes on in Bo Robinson. It's what happens when you stick hundreds of depraved fucking animals together in the same cage for long periods of time.

 

Bingo. There are lot of avowed free-marketeers who can't wait to start sucking from the government teat in the name of privatization.

You know, I recall how after 9-11 the federal government privatized its airline security because of the rank incompetence of the public sector... oh, wait, in a crisis, we did the exact opposite.

 

Not disagreeing at all about the broader privitization issue, but please don't cite TSA as some shining example of how "government works." They suck donkey balls and the fact that we haven't had another 9/11 has absolutely zero to do with their screening techniques.

 

I'm not saying TSA is a shining beacon of light. But I'm saying when push comes to shove, when the safety and security of people are first and foremost in people's minds, even conservative Republicans tell the private sector to shove off.