By Si Kahn
Privatization is likely one of the most crucial political and financial advancements of our time, affecting almost everybody and kingdom on this planet. the aim of "The Fox within the Henhouse is to give, in transparent, direct phrases, an research of privatization that is helping readers comprehend what's occurring to them and what they could do approximately it. It offers humans on both sides of many alternative privatization struggles -- over hospitals, colleges, sanitation, water, Social defense, the army, public lands, the postal provider, nationwide parks, prisons -- the arguments which have been used to put privatization on the heart of the company time table and to dominate the general public debate. It additionally bargains a historic framework that permits readers to heart their pondering on what it potential to construct a democratic society, whereas offering the counterarguments -- and idea -- that folks desire either to argue and to struggle again.
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More seasoned teachers leave: good for the bottom line. The schools do not get better, and the states’ budgets shrink still further because of cuts in federal aid to education that do not stop the federal debt from ballooning further out of control. Our shared public life and goods, the future that depends on them, the future we want for our children, are on a starvation diet, while corporate privatizers’ profits get fatter. Further cuts are proposed in student financial aid. George W. Bush even proposes, in the opening days of his second term, to tax that financial aid.
The fox isn’t guarding the henhouse. ” —”Lockheed and the Future of Wafare,” New York Times ecisions made by rich and powerful privatizing corporations increasingly affect virtually all aspects of our lives. The leaders of these corporations, many of whom live in the United States and enjoy its benefits, do not seem to care about what is happening to our country, to any country, because their loyalty is first and foremost to making profits for the multinational corporation they serve. That’s not what democracy is or should be about.
They glorify efficiency in all-out competition to make the biggest profits, and claim it as their prime virtue. They want us to believe that no-holdsbarred competition is the only reliable motivation for those who deliver—or in their case, sell—public services. A View of History Obviously, a view of history shapes this rhetoric. This view takes history to be the story of humankind’s economic progress toward achieving global capitalism. Since global capitalism is equated with democracy, the history is often told as if it were political rather than economic—the story of a triumphal march toward democracy and freedom.