THE PRIVATIZATION ROAD

This problem created by Edward Snowden has many facets one of which deals with privatization of government programs. Start by asking yourself these questions.

·       How do I get my hands into the pockets of taxpayers?

·       How do I take advantage of the “hate your government” campaign Republicans have wages for years?

·       How can I take advantage of make the government so small we can “drown it in the bath tub”?

·       How we have the “moral order” of a strong government yet not have an Orwellian big brother watching over us?

·       If the government is getting smaller and smaller, why is it costing more and more?

·       If it is costing more and more why is the service we pay for getting worse and worse?

It should not shock you to find out that all of these questions have one answer and that answer is privatization.

The Edward Snowden case is a great starting point for the discussion. A very smart 29 year old is setting at a desk and being paid $200,000 per year to create what amounts to a book of yellow pages on what is essentially the world. He works for a private contractor that paid multi-million of dollars to hire clerks to do a government. There is essentially no Congressional oversight, there is no control over who or who isn’t hired, or if they are doing a good job or not. In addition to the exorbitant salary, the company he works, Booz Allen Hamilton, for is making millions in profits. This is usual in the world of government contractors. I would remind the readers that that is what made Halliburton, and it is former subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, American engineering, construction, and military contracting company now known as KBR. They did a rotten job in Iraq and charged us billions to do it—I am sure the money is in Vice President Dick Cheney’s foreign bank account.

My point is that private contractors are decreasing the size of government. Look at the shrinking “size of government” over the past 30+ years starting with depressing 1981-1989 period, using the number of employees as your metric. Government contractors are applauding the shrinkage. For Grover Norquist, government is still too big to drown in the bathtub—he wants it to not exist at all. Look at the cost of government, which is sky rocketing. Look at the peoples’ discontentment with their government; Congress is at an all time low in public approval rating. People are so truly disgusted with a government that is costing them more and more and given them less and less good service. As the plutocracy now in place shifts the tax burden to the middle class, the working people are beginning to hate the government more and more; therefore, they want more private contracting. The wealthy, as the taxes are shifted away from them and to the middle class, want more and more private contracting.

The only possible way you could make matters worse is to vote Republican, who like Buddhist Monks who pour gasoline over their bodies and set it on fire, they do. Look at the wealth distribution in the United States; if you say the wealth will trickle down you are teetering on the edge of sanity—look at the entire third world for proof of that statement. As for the future, look at who our political leaders are; if you answered congressional representatives you are over looking the disastrous game changing Citizen United Decision. You can always deny reality, as Ron Paul and Ron Paul do and live as monks in an elbow-to-elbow society of 300 million people, and live as if we are in a post apocalyptic period before the apocalypse. Look at the 2009 post apocalyptic award winning film, The Road.

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