"You're privatizing some profits in this process and socializing some losses," Price said.
The far right privatization crowd is getting their way even though it's been shown to be a bankrupting experience for the federal govt.
Let's just not have any govt whatsoever...destroy the whole country.
ComradeRutherford
· 11 months ago
This must NOT happen!
Handing public funded infrastructure over to private hands in the single dumbest thing I have heard of in a long, long time. We, The People already don't have enough money to pay our bills, how are we supposed to pay a road-use fee to some Dubai emir? There are no limited access highways alongside tollways. Either you pay the fee, or you drive at 45 MPH the whole way.
Infrastructure was paid for with US taxpayer's money. Private corporations exist solely to increase their profits. Handing publicly financed infrastructure over to private hands will do only one thing- raise the costs to the users. Even if the state were to sell a highway, they aren't about to demand the actual cost of that highway. No state is about to ask for the replacement cost of said highway. How much money would it cost to build a new Massachussettes tollway? Billions and billions of dollars. How much would it cost New York State to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge? they are NOT about to even ask that much from these rapacious greed-heads. They'll sell these irreplaceable items for one penny on the dollar, get a one-time infusion of cash and then have no further income from them. Meanwhile, We, The People will be forced to pay whatever the company demands, while they break the unions and reduce pay to minimum wage.
This must NOT be allowed to happen!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 11 months ago
Privatizing war, health care, and Social Security have all been such GREAT ideas!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 11 months ago
Hey America! Invest what remains of your assets, after two major deflated bubbles, in an Infrastructure Bubble!
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 11 months ago
Leonard Gilroy should be waterboarded, attacked by dogs, stripped naked, wear ladies panties on his head, and exiled to Gitmo. Just to get him to STFU.
Captain Frogbert
· 11 months ago
So what exactly is the proposition here? That a private enterprise will simply absorb the debt and make it vanish? Poof? Or that a private entity will raise prices, cut wages and trim fat that will pay off their investment and turn a tidy profit? If the second, WHY THE FRAKKING FICKKING FUCKWAFFLE FINKLINBERGER FUCK can't Paterson's "government" just do the same thing while turning the profit over to the people of New York???????
A Greek television show has revealed how Greek police posed as anarchists and destroyed property. Inciting violence and blaming it on legitimate activists is a favorite tactic of the state in order to crack down on protest and dismiss genuine grievances.
In October, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga suggested the police be used as agents provocateurs to start riots and then have the police “beat the shit out of the protesters”. Cossiga was one of the founders of Operation Gladio, the CIA and NATO “stay behind army” that engaged in terrorist bombings and assassinations that were subsequently blamed on leftist organizations.
Cossiga is essentially describing the problem-reaction-solution dialectic that he exploited when he was in government. Under the banner of Operation GLADIO, which was unveiled after parliamentary investigations in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, NATO sponsored secret armies committed acts of violence and terrorism and blamed the attacks on left-wing political movements, allowing far-right governments to seize power in numerous European countries.
The Greek people now have evidence of a similar campaign as they attempt to mobilize against the neoliberal dominated Greek state and its bankster stooges who have brought economic misery to the country. As a matter of course, this vital information will not be brought out in the corporate media as it attempts to discredit peaceful political organizations.
Oh, and by the way... 9/11 = Inside Job
Observer
· 11 months ago
How could Bush/Cheney pull off 9/11 when they allowed so many poor & non-whites to perish in New Orleans?
You're not suggesting that at some level inaction is tantamount to intention, are you?
Next you'll say Bush/Cheney conducted the Iraq war idiotically on purpose for proft!
Oh, wait...
red_dwarf
· 11 months ago
A very astute observation observer.
TomJoad
· 11 months ago
I wondered about this during the GOP national convention too. In the US police have done enough shady, and crappy police work, violating the constitution, and since anyone they suspect is automatically a "bad guy" in their vernacular and thinking....why not?
Bush Bites
· 11 months ago
Companies make money by deferring maintenance.
Eventually, the infrastructure crumbles.
I believe Atlanta had a disastrous experience by outsourcing its water department....had to pay tons to get everything back up to operating condition after they took it back from the private company.
Mayor Daley has sold one of Chicago's tollways and it's parking meters, believe it or not, and is privatizing Midway Airport. Most believe it will hurt the city in the long run but, basically, he's just using the city's assets similar to a home equity loan, so he can fund his silly olympics plans..
Bush Bites
· 11 months ago
Atlanta, Georgia is one of the largest cities in the United States. When it transferred the management of its municipal water system to the private firm United Water, many saw it as a beginning of a new trend. Supporters believed Atlanta would lead the way for many more privatized water utilities in the U.S.
I gained a lot of respect for Dennis when I heard about that.
Bush Bites
· 11 months ago
Except he saved the city's electrical system from being privatized, not the water department.
(unless he saved both from privatization schemes........)
Either way, good for Dennis. The people of Cleveland owe him big time.
Freddie
· 11 months ago
One party -- the Capitalist Party -- with two wings -- Dems and Rethugs. Power shifts left and right, according to the will of the Capitalist Party bosses -- the uber-rich, depending on shifts in the winds of OPPORTUNITY.
ThingsComeUndone
· 11 months ago
This is a giveaway to big business why not just get loans based on future revenue's? Oh wait then the rich could not buy this stuff for cents on the Dollar. But we own the banks? Hmmm I'n not sure this makes sense?
aquarius2
· 11 months ago
OT
Two days and not one word of Israel killing over two hundred civilians. Hmmm!
tbhull
· 11 months ago
Excellent point.
Is Israel a terrorist state?
aquarius2
· 11 months ago
YES!
red_dwarf
· 11 months ago
An Obama spokeperson said that Obama was behind Israel since it was the mean Hamas ragheads that started it. Can you imagine if the TRUTH was reported by the Press? I can't.
Slaughter a few thousand, throw a few more thousand in prison, cut off more electricity, water and services. Strangulate the good people of Gaza until what emerges is the enslaved population that you so desire.
Sometimes I feel like I exist in a bubble of insanity - the middle east's problems could be solved tomorrow but religion rears its ugly head, backed by capitalist pigs profiteering from the death and destruction such opportunities bring. Unreal aquarius2 - insanity at its finest (latest figures are close to 300 dead and 700 injured. Israelis have lost 1 life - if that is not a lie).
Go get 'em while the action is hot. Who cares if innocent civilians are murdered? Not Israel nor the US. What kind of world would we live in if the Press did its job? If the Press reported the TRUTH? Now I'm dreaming. Somebody slap me.
aquarius2
· 11 months ago
Thank you, I thought I was the only one that cared. Almost 300 to 1 seems over the top for retaliation. Plus the Israelis have only let one humanitarian group in to deliver badly needed medical, food and fuel supplies. How we can condone this behavior is beyond belief.
Just another Jew
· 11 months ago
Yes because Jews can't suffer and die can they? And a few rocket attacks every day for years is simply the price they pay for living next to people who want to murder them all in their beds. Who could reasonably complain? Hamas are terrorists using the people of Gaza as human shields for their unprovoked attacks on Israel. Seriously I get so sick of liberals non-thinking knee-jerk reaction to bloody everything. Look at any conflict, pick an underdog and hate their opponents. Why is it ONLY Israel that has to give anything up in the middle east? Offer 95% of everything the Palestinians want and it's not enough. Does any grown up actually think that giving them 100% of what they ask for would be enough? (See, it's only Jews who have to negotiate on the principle of giving your opponent EVERYTHING they ask for, no questions asked. For anyone else negotiating means give and take and nobody goes home with everything they asked for. But not the Jews! Oh no! You only take from Jews, right? And if they don't give it all away, you're perfectly justified with killing them aren't you? I mean, they're only Jews, right? It's not like they're people.)
When the Arab and Muslim (and Christian and knee-jerk liberal) world can finally accept that the Jews have a right to their own country, maybe the world will have peace. But that will never happen will it? Because the Jews are always the bad guys. If Hamas (and the thousands of other state sponsored terrorists in the middle east), and the rest would just leave Israel alone, there would be peace. Israel has a right to defend itself with all the force it deems necessary against a worldwide enemy that would like nothing less than to see the Jews eliminated entirely from the face of the earth. As would so many people who post on this site, apparently. (And for G*d's sake, Jews can hardly be allowed to win any battles! That's just against the natural order of things, isn't it? Jews who can fight are just not Kosher.) But, hey, the world is only a better place when we Jews die. So lay on! We'll just lie there and let you murder us as you see fit. You're all such moral exemplars after all. And we're just slimy Jews.
red_dwarf
· 11 months ago
JAJ - to start out with let me make it clear I am in no way an anti-semite, quite the contrary, my daughter is jewish and I have jewish blood in my family (personally I reject all religions as a waste of time, at least for me). However, I deplore and detest the actions of Israelis in Palestine, beginning with the rise of Zionism in the late 19th century. I won't go into much detail but address a couple of your statements, in a civil way if I can.
Why do you think there are rocket attacks? Oh, I know. Because Hamas wants all Jews dead, they just hate jews so much they just want to slaughter them all. This of course is bulls*h*i*t. They are retaliating for decades of suppression and repression and slaughter. When I hear jews say "there is no compromising position (enter religion)" I discard it, same with Hamas or any other Palestinian group. What has happened in the Gaza strip in the last year is nothing short of terrorism. The Israelis have 10,000+ prisoners in their dungeons and the Palestinians have, what, 1? Thousands of innocent Palestinians have been murdered by the jews in Israel compared to a few hundred jews.
Leave Israel alone? What hogwash. How about leaving the damn Palestinians alone and quit exploiting them as cheap labor. Israel better get its s*h*i*t together or war will never cease. How about Lebanon last year? Using internationally band cluster bombs to slaughter innocent women and children, civilians, destruction of infrastructure, etc. Let me tell you something Mr. Just Another Jew. Nobody is buying your bulls*h*i*t any more. Start treating the Palestinians like humans and you just might find a peaceful outcome. I'm about sick of it all but I expect it won't be resolved in my lifetime. The majority of the world considers Israel a terrorist nation. They have the record to prove it.
You sir need to read more. Your jewish bias is spilling over.
If you think that public roads are in crappy condition now ... just wait 'til private companies take 'em over. YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET, folks.
tbhull
· 11 months ago
Wait for tolls on every road and private security forces like Blackwater patrolling these roads.
ComradeRutherford
· 11 months ago
That's the plan. Blackwater with shoot-to-kill orders for anyone that can't afford the tolls...
tbhull
· 11 months ago
Not before a little rape and pillage first.
MC_Haiku
· 11 months ago
Hey Tony Soprano and the boys will take good care of the turnpikes. 'Cuz it's just good business to do so. You don't think so? Are you some kind of commie?
Jay
· 11 months ago
Can we outsource our political leaders too?
VeryFree
· 11 months ago
Mass Turnpike Authority will never go private. That union will put the statehouse on lock down. For real.
tbhull
· 11 months ago
Goind once, going twice and its final the Hoover damn goes to Tehran Investment Corp and the Golden Gate Bridge goes to the Dubai sovereign wealth fund. The Statue of Liberty would fetch a few dollars from China. Hell, why not.
ComradeRutherford
· 11 months ago
Hey, I bet once they own it, they melt it down for the copper, and leave nothing but the pedestal.
The Republican Way!
tbhull
· 11 months ago
Melt it down to build a tank to run over protestors.
ComradeRutherford
· 11 months ago
A copper tank wouldn't do very much...
mike
· 11 months ago
Leasing the rights to a lottery (yes, a lottery) is considered a safer investment than a legitimate business. If it wasn't so sad it'd be funny.
lynchie
· 11 months ago
I have written 9 times to the Pennsylvania Lottery Commission to find out if there is an accounting for all their revenue. They have never answered. The billions in revenue mysteriously disappear. Like the revenue on gambling in New Jersey nothing is every reported. Lotteries another scam for the elderly and the afraid.
ComradeRutherford
· 11 months ago
Whenever I am in a convenience store and someone's buying lottery tickets (or worse, the instant-lose tickets), I tell this joke:
A man went to his doctor and the doctor told him that if he didn't change his diet and start getting exercise that he had a 1 in 3 chance of having a heart attack.
He told the doctor: "I'll take my chances."
Later that guy went to a store and bought a lottery ticket. The clerk said, "you know there's only a 1 in 80 million chance of winning, right?"
The man said, "Today's my lucky day!!!"
SCLiberal
· 11 months ago
The lottery is a tax on people who can't do math.
brian
· 11 months ago
This is a very bad mistake and very shortsighted. Business does not care about quality, only profits. I can imagine going from road to road and paying more and paying more often while quality suffers. It is going to be a disaster.
lynchie
· 11 months ago
This is all about short term benefit and a few million towards the deficit. In fact the real issue is that the Federal Government has not turned over its revenue to the states. It has instead spent trillions on a war and trillions more to socialize the richest people in the world. The highways, dams, power plants, etc have all been built at taxpayer expense. Since we paid for the power plants why do we have to pay such high costs. To pay to drive on a highway I already paid to build is insanity but the right wing of this country wants to privatize anything that is not nailed down. Social Security, Healthcare, name one privatized program which has worked? Not a one. Blackwater, Haliburton have done such a good job feeding our troops in Iraq, getting them safe drinking water, so what if it has a little mercury or e coli or a little lead. Like the troops that have died from electrocution in the showers in Iraq. Governments are in place to provide security and basic services. If they can't or won't do these functions then frankly we don't need any level of government. Local, town, county, state or federal they provide no benefit to the population who elect them.
LeftoverBeefcake
· 11 months ago
And don't forget, the money that is collected from taxes on gasoline sales is *supposed* to go towards maintenance of the roads... (at least I am under that impression so please correct me if I am wrong) - so if roads are all going to be privatized then are the state governments going to repeal the gas taxes?
Indigo
· 11 months ago
See there? Governor Blogayavich is ahead of the curve.
cole3244
· 11 months ago
where have we heard this routine before, oh yea we just got the results of other can't miss schemes in sept, now we are going down the short term solution road again so those in charge don't have to make tough decisions as usual.
James McConnell
· 11 months ago
My God! What the billionaires haven't been able to loot, what they haven't been able to destroy in their scorched earth policy, we will now sell to them at fire sale prices, for less than it cost us taxpayers to build in the first place.
It's reeeel simple. If there are all these billions of dollars in private hands, there is enough to pay our bills ......if we will just have the guts to tax it away from them. ENOUGH ALREADY!
pdxprobert
· 11 months ago
Whats next? Are they going to divide up the country by region and then sell them too? Would some growing nation like to own parts of our country for its resources... Is that too much of a stretch? I don't think so... Let's face it, it's a world based economy now and resource wars are on the horizon for, energy, potable water, housing for expanding -overpopulations, etc.....
If its all about money, what value do the boomers have as we enter into retirement and have no skills left to sell or trade... with reverse mortages becoming the next big financial product to market, I get the feeling the people on top with all the money want to be sure us on the bottom don't have anything for the next generation to inherit... And I thought I would have just as comfortable of retirement as my parents and grandparents had...
Have people forgotten the old saying, whats good for General Motors is good for America? Thats what the politicians used to say...
ComradeRutherford
· 11 months ago
In 1999 Greg Palast released a book called "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". In it he describes how the Business class intends to impoverish Americans and turn the USA into a third-world dictatorship. Privatizing everything is one of the key steps to that.
He was right all along.
pdxprobert
· 11 months ago
in the mid 1980s, my former employer provided our division a class called "Improving your Potential"...It was by a man named Tice.. can't remeber his first name... He was an industrial psychologist... . it was designed to help us through the downsizing of our company by improving our job seeking opportunities through understanding the direction our country was taking.. In the class we were told that in the new century, minorities would gain more influence as well as woman, religion would be more dividing than race and that America was going to become a vacation destination for the worlds rich and famous... this was the timeframe that the term "imformation age" was coined...
If the USA is going to become a destination point for the world's rich, where are we the poor to middle class going to end up? What's our fate slated to be... One thing I learned in Corporate America was that people are expendable... When revenue shortcomings were projected, payroll budgets were slashed...
In this new paradigm we live in where the corporations are the new government and the media is there to serve the corporations, if people are still expendable, and the boomers are getting ready to begin drawing on social service programs at a time when our country has been bankrupted, whats the fate of the boomers going to be?
scytherius
· 11 months ago
Unless Obama and the Dem's approach to governing is radical, compared to what we have had, the U.S. is OVER.
Mighty
· 11 months ago
Can we sell our politicians? if so let the selling begin!
AdmNaismith
· 11 months ago
No. No, no, no, no, no.
AdmNaismith
· 11 months ago
Did I say No? I meant no. I apologize if I was unclear.
Chris From Maine
· 11 months ago
Maine is in bad shape too, and the first thing they cut? of course it was education. I guess they figure stupid people are better for the overall state and the country.. /sigh.
Rodentface
· 11 months ago
Chicago has been at the forefront of the privatization of government assets and sources of revenue.
The Chicago Skyway is already leased for 99 years. Midway Airport is now leased for 75 years. Parking meters, too. And public education is being sold to the lowest bidders.
Chicago politicians recently voted to privatize on-street parking in the city. The cost to park on public streets is expected to rise to at least $6.50/hr quite quickly. The corporations leasing these parking spaces will also be involved in ticketing violating vehicles.
All these deals bring in a little cash for the city in the short term. But none of these deals enables Chicago to deal with its long term liabilities. The city is mortgaging its financial future in an attempt to balance its budget today. It's downright criminal.
If there is so much money to be made operating the Skyway, Midway Airport, and parking meters - why doesn't the city do so and collect all that money itself instead of handing it over to already wealthy corporate interests?
Keep an eye on Arne Duncan as secretary of education. During his relatively brief tenure Chicago privatized nearly 15% of public schools. 50% of public schools will be privatized within 8 years. (Student access to those privatized public schools is closely regulated and restricted.) Education is the 2nd largest industry in America after the military; corporations are drooling over the prospects of having it turned over to them.
This is all part of a massive assault on public services that will continue unabated, and probably even be encouraged, during the Obama years.
Bush Bites
· 11 months ago
Daley's a Repub masquerading as a Democrat.
pdxprobert
· 11 months ago
Anybody see this story in the Wall Street Journal? A Russian professor and analyst for the KGB predicts the USA will break apart in 2010... does the fire sale of America's infrastructure have anything to do with this guy's prediction?
Look on the bight side. If Panarin is right, then the Palins become Russian citizens.
Whether a break apart is likely or not, there is no doubt that this country is teetering and selling our infastructure is only one cause of it.
As fooled by him as I feel, I still hold hope that Obama is not the tool I fear him to be.
TomJoad
· 11 months ago
Gee....isn't short term thinking easy? Seems like all the politicians think so. They sell off things that are not theirs to sell (um...WE PAID FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE, as did our parents, grandparents...it isn't theirs to sell off to someone to make then a profit on) and then are gone when the REAL bill comes due.
We need to let them know in no uncertain terms that if they don't want their charge, they can get the hell out of the office and let us elect someone that does.
TomJoad
· 11 months ago
I've had this idea for a few years now...I think it is a winner.
INSTEAD of privatizing infrastructure, and you know...things worth a damn, why not privatize the goddamned politicians?
Lining their pockets at our expense and selling us out could easily be done from India, or some other place at a fraction of the cost.
Or replace them with "Magic 8 balls" and a list of questions.
These boneheads are worthless to US the TAXPAYERS.
bob_h
· 11 months ago
Here in NJ we are bracing for double digit property tax increases to restore the State Pension Funds, which have been depleted by the Wall St. crash. You have to deal the losses to your own savings, and then take another hit to cover the fund managers' mistakes. The whole system seems not to be sustainable.
All Comments
Violence never works for good.
Unless you're founding a country.
"You're privatizing some profits in this process and socializing some losses," Price said.
The far right privatization crowd is getting their way even though it's been shown to be a bankrupting experience for the federal govt.
Let's just not have any govt whatsoever...destroy the whole country.
Handing public funded infrastructure over to private hands in the single dumbest thing I have heard of in a long, long time. We, The People already don't have enough money to pay our bills, how are we supposed to pay a road-use fee to some Dubai emir? There are no limited access highways alongside tollways. Either you pay the fee, or you drive at 45 MPH the whole way.
Infrastructure was paid for with US taxpayer's money. Private corporations exist solely to increase their profits. Handing publicly financed infrastructure over to private hands will do only one thing- raise the costs to the users. Even if the state were to sell a highway, they aren't about to demand the actual cost of that highway. No state is about to ask for the replacement cost of said highway. How much money would it cost to build a new Massachussettes tollway? Billions and billions of dollars. How much would it cost New York State to build a new Tappan Zee Bridge? they are NOT about to even ask that much from these rapacious greed-heads. They'll sell these irreplaceable items for one penny on the dollar, get a one-time infusion of cash and then have no further income from them. Meanwhile, We, The People will be forced to pay whatever the company demands, while they break the unions and reduce pay to minimum wage.
This must NOT be allowed to happen!
A Greek television show has revealed how Greek police posed as anarchists and destroyed property. Inciting violence and blaming it on legitimate activists is a favorite tactic of the state in order to crack down on protest and dismiss genuine grievances.
In October, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga suggested the police be used as agents provocateurs to start riots and then have the police “beat the shit out of the protesters”. Cossiga was one of the founders of Operation Gladio, the CIA and NATO “stay behind army” that engaged in terrorist bombings and assassinations that were subsequently blamed on leftist organizations.
Cossiga is essentially describing the problem-reaction-solution dialectic that he exploited when he was in government. Under the banner of Operation GLADIO, which was unveiled after parliamentary investigations in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium, NATO sponsored secret armies committed acts of violence and terrorism and blamed the attacks on left-wing political movements, allowing far-right governments to seize power in numerous European countries.
The Greek people now have evidence of a similar campaign as they attempt to mobilize against the neoliberal dominated Greek state and its bankster stooges who have brought economic misery to the country. As a matter of course, this vital information will not be brought out in the corporate media as it attempts to discredit peaceful political organizations.
Oh, and by the way... 9/11 = Inside Job
You're not suggesting that at some level inaction is tantamount to intention, are you?
Next you'll say Bush/Cheney conducted the Iraq war idiotically on purpose for proft!
Oh, wait...
Eventually, the infrastructure crumbles.
I believe Atlanta had a disastrous experience by outsourcing its water department....had to pay tons to get everything back up to operating condition after they took it back from the private company.
Mayor Daley has sold one of Chicago's tollways and it's parking meters, believe it or not, and is privatizing Midway Airport. Most believe it will hurt the city in the long run but, basically, he's just using the city's assets similar to a home equity loan, so he can fund his silly olympics plans..
No one believes that any more.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/features/water/atlanta.html
I gained a lot of respect for Dennis when I heard about that.
(unless he saved both from privatization schemes........)
Either way, good for Dennis. The people of Cleveland owe him big time.
But we own the banks? Hmmm I'n not sure this makes sense?
Two days and not one word of Israel killing over two hundred civilians. Hmmm!
Is Israel a terrorist state?
Slaughter a few thousand, throw a few more thousand in prison, cut off more electricity, water and services. Strangulate the good people of Gaza until what emerges is the enslaved population that you so desire.
Sometimes I feel like I exist in a bubble of insanity - the middle east's problems could be solved tomorrow but religion rears its ugly head, backed by capitalist pigs profiteering from the death and destruction such opportunities bring. Unreal aquarius2 - insanity at its finest (latest figures are close to 300 dead and 700 injured. Israelis have lost 1 life - if that is not a lie).
Go get 'em while the action is hot. Who cares if innocent civilians are murdered? Not Israel nor the US. What kind of world would we live in if the Press did its job? If the Press reported the TRUTH? Now I'm dreaming. Somebody slap me.
When the Arab and Muslim (and Christian and knee-jerk liberal) world can finally accept that the Jews have a right to their own country, maybe the world will have peace. But that will never happen will it? Because the Jews are always the bad guys. If Hamas (and the thousands of other state sponsored terrorists in the middle east), and the rest would just leave Israel alone, there would be peace. Israel has a right to defend itself with all the force it deems necessary against a worldwide enemy that would like nothing less than to see the Jews eliminated entirely from the face of the earth. As would so many people who post on this site, apparently. (And for G*d's sake, Jews can hardly be allowed to win any battles! That's just against the natural order of things, isn't it? Jews who can fight are just not Kosher.) But, hey, the world is only a better place when we Jews die. So lay on! We'll just lie there and let you murder us as you see fit. You're all such moral exemplars after all. And we're just slimy Jews.
Why do you think there are rocket attacks? Oh, I know. Because Hamas wants all Jews dead, they just hate jews so much they just want to slaughter them all. This of course is bulls*h*i*t. They are retaliating for decades of suppression and repression and slaughter. When I hear jews say "there is no compromising position (enter religion)" I discard it, same with Hamas or any other Palestinian group. What has happened in the Gaza strip in the last year is nothing short of terrorism. The Israelis have 10,000+ prisoners in their dungeons and the Palestinians have, what, 1? Thousands of innocent Palestinians have been murdered by the jews in Israel compared to a few hundred jews.
Leave Israel alone? What hogwash. How about leaving the damn Palestinians alone and quit exploiting them as cheap labor. Israel better get its s*h*i*t together or war will never cease. How about Lebanon last year? Using internationally band cluster bombs to slaughter innocent women and children, civilians, destruction of infrastructure, etc. Let me tell you something Mr. Just Another Jew. Nobody is buying your bulls*h*i*t any more. Start treating the Palestinians like humans and you just might find a peaceful outcome. I'm about sick of it all but I expect it won't be resolved in my lifetime. The majority of the world considers Israel a terrorist nation. They have the record to prove it.
You sir need to read more. Your jewish bias is spilling over.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01...
Looks interesting.
Investment Corp and the Golden Gate Bridge goes to the Dubai sovereign wealth fund. The Statue of Liberty would fetch a few dollars from China. Hell, why not.
The Republican Way!
A man went to his doctor and the doctor told him that if he didn't change his diet and start getting exercise that he had a 1 in 3 chance of having a heart attack.
He told the doctor: "I'll take my chances."
Later that guy went to a store and bought a lottery ticket. The clerk said, "you know there's only a 1 in 80 million chance of winning, right?"
The man said, "Today's my lucky day!!!"
It's reeeel simple. If there are all these billions of dollars in private hands, there is enough to pay our bills ......if we will just have the guts to tax it away from them. ENOUGH ALREADY!
If its all about money, what value do the boomers have as we enter into retirement and have no skills left to sell or trade... with reverse mortages becoming the next big financial product to market, I get the feeling the people on top with all the money want to be sure us on the bottom don't have anything for the next generation to inherit... And I thought I would have just as comfortable of retirement as my parents and grandparents had...
Have people forgotten the old saying, whats good for General Motors is good for America? Thats what the politicians used to say...
He was right all along.
If the USA is going to become a destination point for the world's rich, where are we the poor to middle class going to end up? What's our fate slated to be... One thing I learned in Corporate America was that people are expendable... When revenue shortcomings were projected, payroll budgets were slashed...
In this new paradigm we live in where the corporations are the new government and the media is there to serve the corporations, if people are still expendable, and the boomers are getting ready to begin drawing on social service programs at a time when our country has been bankrupted, whats the fate of the boomers going to be?
The Chicago Skyway is already leased for 99 years. Midway Airport is now leased for 75 years. Parking meters, too. And public education is being sold to the lowest bidders.
Chicago politicians recently voted to privatize on-street parking in the city. The cost to park on public streets is expected to rise to at least $6.50/hr quite quickly. The corporations leasing these parking spaces will also be involved in ticketing violating vehicles.
All these deals bring in a little cash for the city in the short term. But none of these deals enables Chicago to deal with its long term liabilities. The city is mortgaging its financial future in an attempt to balance its budget today. It's downright criminal.
If there is so much money to be made operating the Skyway, Midway Airport, and parking meters - why doesn't the city do so and collect all that money itself instead of handing it over to already wealthy corporate interests?
Keep an eye on Arne Duncan as secretary of education. During his relatively brief tenure Chicago privatized nearly 15% of public schools. 50% of public schools will be privatized within 8 years. (Student access to those privatized public schools is closely regulated and restricted.) Education is the 2nd largest industry in America after the military; corporations are drooling over the prospects of having it turned over to them.
This is all part of a massive assault on public services that will continue unabated, and probably even be encouraged, during the Obama years.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638...
Whether a break apart is likely or not, there is no doubt that this country is teetering and selling our infastructure is only one cause of it.
As fooled by him as I feel, I still hold hope that Obama is not the tool I fear him to be.
We need to let them know in no uncertain terms that if they don't want their charge, they can get the hell out of the office and let us elect someone that does.
INSTEAD of privatizing infrastructure, and you know...things worth a damn, why not privatize the goddamned politicians?
Lining their pockets at our expense and selling us out could easily be done from India, or some other place at a fraction of the cost.
Or replace them with "Magic 8 balls" and a list of questions.
These boneheads are worthless to US the TAXPAYERS.