What would Happen if we Privatized everything?

[Street Knowledge]

I mean that seems to be the dream of some conservatives and libertarians. Education, Prisons, medicare/SS, Military, Roads, etc

 

[zerozero]

I'm beginning to realize that this type of thinking only makes plausible sense to people in developed stable countries like the USA

in most countries in the world privatizing everything would just cause more suffering by making explicit an elite class who can buy education, security, health vs an out-of-luck majority

 

[Fillerguy]

escobar season

 

[Slystallion]

Military roads and prisons and anything that has to do with judicial system and enforcement should never be privatized and most conservatives and libertarians acknowledge that...get your facts straight before you start claiming nonsense.

Not even the Cato institute advocates for any of the above

 

[OsO]

Military roads and prisons and anything that has to do with judicial system and enforcement should never be privatized and most conservatives and libertarians acknowledge that...get your facts straight before you start claiming nonsense.

Not even the Cato institute advocates for any of the above

so why has our government privatized all the above to some degree?

 

[zerozero]

look what just came across the wire

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/opinion/kristof-a-failed-experiment.html

So time and again, we see the decline of public services accompanied by the rise of private workarounds for the wealthy.

Is crime a problem? Well, rather than pay for better policing, move to a gated community with private security guards!

Are public schools failing? Well, superb private schools have spaces for a mere $40,000 per child per year.

Public libraries closing branches and cutting hours? Well, buy your own books and magazines!

Are public parks — even our awesome national parks, dubbed “America’s best idea” and the quintessential “public good” — suffering from budget cuts? Don’t whine. Just buy a weekend home in the country!

Public playgrounds and tennis courts decrepit? Never mind — just join a private tennis club!

I’m used to seeing this mind-set in developing countries like Chad or Pakistan, where the feudal rich make do behind high walls topped with shards of glass; increasingly, I see it in our country. The disregard for public goods was epitomized by Mitt Romney’s call to end financing of public broadcasting.

A wealthy friend of mine notes that we all pay for poverty in the end. The upfront way is to finance early childhood education for at-risk kids. The back-end way is to pay for prisons and private security guards. In cities with high economic inequality, such as New York and Los Angeles, more than 1 percent of all employees work as private security guards, according to census data.

 

[daze23]

so why has our government privatized all the above to some degree?

exactly. in many ways the military is already privatized. I mean have you heard of General Dynamics or Lockheed?

and many conservatives push for private prisons and whatnot

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

Remember the housing bubble

Imagine if thats how everything the govt has its hands in went

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

What does privatize mean?

 

[88m3]

We should Nationalize everything and kill 52% of the population, we could start with Red States and then move to Swing States.

 

[stealthbomber]

We should Nationalize everything and kill 52% of the population, we could start with Red States and then move to Swing States.

funny thing is that would actually fix a lot of our problems

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

What does privatize mean?