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freshwest

(53,661 posts)
8. As government is defunded, basic services depend on charity, so more stupidity from all sides.
Tue Dec 24, 2013, 11:21 PM
Dec 2013

Charity is no way to run an essential public service. The two groups are claiming through donating or not donating, that they can shut down the libraries as a learning resource for many more people than themselves.

Privatization will led to more of this and more religion or coporate contol. Libraries will censor books on science and politics just as the charter schools have done.

People are being driven to Libertarian solutions to destroy the Commons. We should not be surprised at these idiotic arguments. The costs should not be in the hands of the private sector, that leads to ruin.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.


~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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