Say consumers are tapped out and you're a private sector hungry for growth

[jpgray]

The public coffers would be the next place to look. So where would you look in the budget for vast expenditures of money that could be siphoned out of more wholly public endeavors and into more private goods and services?

The military is an obvious choice, and we have seen this happen as services and goods once provided by, through and for the military became increasingly privatized.

The other obvious places where you find billions spent and used publicly would seem to be, what? Medicare? Education? Is this the reason for the push to exclude more people from Medicare? For more and more charter schools?

It seems to me you would push to provide services traditionally provided publicly. Also, you would seek to replace government programs for the poor and elderly with public subsidies, which would then be used to pay for services through the private market.

[Trajan]

1. You're a hungry private sector ?

You pay a decent wage that reasonably compensates workers for their labor .... The 'Private Sector' is sitting on oodles and oodles of cash .... Guess where THAT cash came from ? ....

They need to pay wages that actually match the value that workers provide, instead of driving workers, and their families, into the ground .... They need to pay wages that alleviates annual inflation, and boosts pay slightly more so real purchasing power is realized ....

We wouldn't need 'stimulus' if the 'Private Sector' weren't so stingy with worker pay ....

[KurtNYC]

2. "Stealing the Future" (TM) n/t