Niblik (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} niblik) wrote,@ 2007-10-11 17:09:00 |
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Corporation, Privatization, Scary
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusa
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusa
After reading just part of that first article, I see our own civil war v2.0 approaching.
Very dangerous to give military level equipment to 20,000 mercenaries.
The degeneration of the bill of rights.
The decline of the value of the dollar.
The decrease of standing armies (supplemented by the above mercenary armies).
The corporate mercenary army would fight on our own soil. Our own army to defend?
That would be a neat trick as the majority of our army does not exist anymore (or is in Iraq).
This is a result of corporate privatization and corporate outsourcing -- specifically public sector activities (infrastructure, army, jails, etc).
The fun of this big corporate outsourcing campaign are little jokes.
When Katrina hit, FEMA had to hire a contractor to award contracts to contractors.
The Army outsource the job of updating the Army manual on the rules for dealing with contractors because it no longer had the in-house expertise.
Dept of Homeland Security is paying Boeing $2.5 Billion to design the entire border initiative because the DHS "does not have the capacity needed to effectively plan, oversee, and execute the program."
I agree with one of the conclusions. This essentially means that our government "no more does the actual work of governing than the employees at Nike's Oregon headquarters actually stitch running shoes."
Alan Greenspan's definition of crony capitalism, "When a government's leaders of businesses routinely seek out private-sector individuals or businesses, and, in exchange for political support, bestow favors on them, the society is said to be in the grip of 'crony capitalism'. The favors generally take the form of monopoly access to certain markets, preferred access to sales of government assets, and special access to those in power."
After Blackwater killing people with no reprecussions... after Halliburton has lost several billions of dollars with no reprecussions.... I'm sure others can find more examples. How can one say that we are not in an era of 'crony capitalism'?
Greenspan was confronted by that and dodged the question. That should answer it well enough.
The way it is going, one day there will be a war that starts out over this privatization -- because those benefitting from it are armed to the tooth (better than our military). Some corporation will be slighted and hire the corporate mercenary unit to exact its vengeance -- and thus, it will begin.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusa
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusa
After reading just part of that first article, I see our own civil war v2.0 approaching.
Very dangerous to give military level equipment to 20,000 mercenaries.
The degeneration of the bill of rights.
The decline of the value of the dollar.
The decrease of standing armies (supplemented by the above mercenary armies).
The corporate mercenary army would fight on our own soil. Our own army to defend?
That would be a neat trick as the majority of our army does not exist anymore (or is in Iraq).
This is a result of corporate privatization and corporate outsourcing -- specifically public sector activities (infrastructure, army, jails, etc).
The fun of this big corporate outsourcing campaign are little jokes.
When Katrina hit, FEMA had to hire a contractor to award contracts to contractors.
The Army outsource the job of updating the Army manual on the rules for dealing with contractors because it no longer had the in-house expertise.
Dept of Homeland Security is paying Boeing $2.5 Billion to design the entire border initiative because the DHS "does not have the capacity needed to effectively plan, oversee, and execute the program."
I agree with one of the conclusions. This essentially means that our government "no more does the actual work of governing than the employees at Nike's Oregon headquarters actually stitch running shoes."
Alan Greenspan's definition of crony capitalism, "When a government's leaders of businesses routinely seek out private-sector individuals or businesses, and, in exchange for political support, bestow favors on them, the society is said to be in the grip of 'crony capitalism'. The favors generally take the form of monopoly access to certain markets, preferred access to sales of government assets, and special access to those in power."
After Blackwater killing people with no reprecussions... after Halliburton has lost several billions of dollars with no reprecussions.... I'm sure others can find more examples. How can one say that we are not in an era of 'crony capitalism'?
Greenspan was confronted by that and dodged the question. That should answer it well enough.
The way it is going, one day there will be a war that starts out over this privatization -- because those benefitting from it are armed to the tooth (better than our military). Some corporation will be slighted and hire the corporate mercenary unit to exact its vengeance -- and thus, it will begin.
