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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:29 AM Original message |
When GOP says "privatize," Dems should say "privatization is corruption" |
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Nozebro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. Disagree with one of your points - but only one. |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. It would seem the word 'donation' doesn't have the word 'investment' in it |
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Nozebro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:44 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. It would seem that donors of any amount of $ are also investors. |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:47 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. I don't consider donations an investment... |
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Nozebro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:50 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Your message has nothing to do with your subject. Was that intentional? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
19. I used to think that was the case until I started dealing with pols at |
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louis-t (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 12:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
31. The system corrupts otherwise honorable people. |
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BuhByeChimp (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:37 AM Response to Original message |
2. Thats not been my experience. |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:39 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. When it isn't regulated, heavily.. |
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Nozebro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:41 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. How many people lost their jobs & are the privatized workers paid the |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:09 AM Response to Reply #7 |
22. that's one of the reasons for privatizing--break public employee unions |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
20. was this one of the municipalities where the power grid failed in NE? |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
24. Studies in California showed that municipal utilities prices were lower. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 12:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
29. "Price" does NOT equal "cost." |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. privatization isn't corruption... |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:42 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. Yeah, what other business can you get into which guarantees a 20%... |
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WA98296 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
6. Agree, excellent post. Thanks. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
8. i like the term "piratization" |
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Hugin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:43 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. . |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. actually, I think both work |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
23. THAT'S GREAT--Dems should do that the way the GOP does Democrat Party |
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WA98296 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
12. Agree, excellent post. Thanks. |
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Armstead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
13. I agree -- But the Triangulating Democrats are also on that train |
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Nozebro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:47 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Unfortunately, MOST Democrats are "centrists". That makes it easier |
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Jed Dilligan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 10:51 AM Response to Original message |
17. Instead of privatization, try "deregulation" |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:08 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Yep--I would say it about both |
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Cogito ergo doleo (382 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:33 AM Response to Reply #17 |
25. Deregulated privatization is turning the U.S. into a third world |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:40 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I think the goal is to make us a Third World country with a weak middle |
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Cogito ergo doleo (382 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 12:24 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I think so too. And where's the future in killing the goose |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 09:00 PM Response to Reply #30 |
37. yeah, there doing a pyramid scheme of cheap labor and eventually |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
27. Privateering = state-sanctioned piracy |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
28. Privatizing is not always corruption, and |
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OregonDem (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 01:27 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Couldn't someone make the argument that corruption usually comes |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
33. Some services should NEVER be "Privatized"! |
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nmliberal (107 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
34. Great post |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-25-06 01:48 AM Response to Reply #34 |
39. thanks!--now repeat it a thousand times until it sticks. |
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Hidden Stillness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
35. "Privatizing" is Usually a Signal of Further Crime |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 09:02 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. the more people get familiar with the DLC, the less popular they become |
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Joe Chi Minh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-24-06 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
36. Privatization is not privatization at all in anything but name. It is |
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