Private companies should not own public utilities. No one should make a profit on things a community needs in order to thrive. Our forty year orgy of privatization must give way to an appropriate balance between individual economic interests and a concern for the common good.
More Perfect Union
 @MorePerfectUS
12 Dec 2023
Pennsylvania passed a law incentivizing private companies to buy publicly-owned water systems. Now residents are seeing their water bills skyrocket. One local official put it bluntly during a hearing today: "People should see privatization for what it really is — a scam."

Dec 12, 2023 · 5:09 PM UTC

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Or you could say “to hell with that” & institute Workplace Democracy/Worker’s Self-Management!!!
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Some of these big private utilities are owned by foreign corporations. A question- should a private.. foreign ( mostly European) corporation own Americans water supplies?
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If the money in Congressional bank accounts seems like cheating, it's because it is. It's math, and that makes people stop listening. I made a video, so you can maybe see it.
mr nobody @maseyo
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For many, Congress has too much money. It seems like cheating. But they don't quite see how. It's because it's mathematics. Are the 535 members of congress intentionally governing our stuff into their own bank accounts. I made an amateur video: youtube.com/uZtlc6j2IeE?si=L-RZ…
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If you want something run inefficiently, with bloated staffs chosen by identity box checking, and for political rather than service or financial performance, then turn it over to the government. You’d think we would have learned by now.
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People have been scammed for nearly 50 years by privatisation. Privatised public service does not deliver much on the way of service. It adds to costs so is inflationary.
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I agree. Pfizer should give every dollar it made off the life saving vaccines back to the government that subsidized the creation of its products
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Natural resources of any kind should remain in the hands of the people. Polluting water and air is a theft from the people and planet as much as extraction is and may well be a worse theft.
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The 9-11 CIA coup of '73 overthrew democracy in Chile. Milton Friedman provided a Constitution that privatized everything. 50 years later remnants of that dictatorship of corporations still persist US Supreme Court by treasonous Precedents created the like inferno here
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I again agree with you but will be voting for @JoeBiden work hard for rank choice voting
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