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Title: Privatizing Post by: phk on April 21, 2006, 05:53:44 PM Privatizing
Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Moooooo on April 21, 2006, 06:01:09 PM ^^^ With regulation... Look at the mess we're facing over here in MD. You being from CA of places should know better. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: John Dibble on April 21, 2006, 06:05:09 PM Privatizing what exactly? Utilities? Public Transportation? Law Enforcement? Education?
Unless you're more specific I can't give an opinion. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: MaC on April 21, 2006, 08:07:01 PM yay (sane)
Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Gabu on April 21, 2006, 08:13:51 PM Only extremists on both sides would answer either yes or no to every single form of privatization that there is.
Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: MaC on April 21, 2006, 08:14:54 PM Only extremists on both sides would answer either yes or no to every single form of privatization that there is. you're an X-treme moderate. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: opebo on April 22, 2006, 03:42:29 AM Only extremists on both sides would answer either yes or no to every single form of privatization that there is. Very true! Though as a generalization I would say that privatization has been excessive in most countries - as in there are many cases where the privatization has been detrimental to the commoners. On the other hand, privatization's main purpose is to create an opportunity to hugely enrich the wealth and politically well connected, so from the perspective of this class privatization is an unmitigated good. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Virginian87 on April 22, 2006, 11:29:31 AM ^^^ With regulation... Look at the mess we're facing over here in MD. You being from CA of places should know better. He's talking about the utilities. I agree that utilities should have at least SOME regulation, otherwise we'd be facing even more Enron-style problems that California had to deal with in 2002. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) on April 22, 2006, 07:20:03 PM I agree that utilities should have at least SOME regulation, otherwise we'd be facing even more Enron-style problems that California had to deal with in 2002. The problem with Enron wasn't deregulation but rather misregulation. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Nym90 on April 24, 2006, 11:57:46 AM It depends on the industry. In some cases it's been good, in others, less so.
Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Speed of Sound on April 24, 2006, 03:19:09 PM 70-90% Its Nay for me.
Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Cubby on April 28, 2006, 03:13:16 AM Nay
Privatizing is all the rage, but it only leads to trouble down the road. After the companies make money from privatization, they are unable to deliver services. Then the government has to bale them out, which is wasted money thats only spent because Americans are so frightened of the government running anything other than the post offices. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Inverted Things on April 28, 2006, 08:17:40 AM I'm assuming your talking federal level here. I definitely support a smaller federal government, and many branches of the federal government don't really need to be branches of the federal government. I'm thinking FDA, Transportation, those sorts of things.
Some of these things can be dealt with better on a state level, while it would make a great deal of sense to privatize others. Title: Re: Privatizing Post by: Bdub on April 28, 2006, 09:53:02 PM I favor privatizing than not.
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