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The privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful—it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic.
It's time to completely end the privatization of national security.
Business Week recently pointed out that 99 percent of Booze Allen Hamilton's revenues come from government contracts.
Why would we pay a CEO millions, stockholders tens of millions, and workers a small fortune when the same work could and should be done by civil servants?
Even worse, our privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful; it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic.
Governments can be made accountable, transparent, and responsive to “We the People.” In fact, that's the core idea of our Constitution.
On the other hand corporations, by and large, are accountable only to profits.They’re opaque, and don't give a damn about “We the People,” except for the people who run them.
There once was a time, before Reagan put us on a privatization binge, when our national security was run by our government and answerable to “We the People.”
However, ever since the Reagan Revolution, our political class has been obsessed with the idea that since government can’t do anything right, private companies should take over most of our commons, even, in this case, the commons of our national security.
And that’s created an entire industry of companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, where NSA leaker Edward Snowden worked, reaping millions in profits every year to manage and lobby for an ever-expanding and ever-more-profitable national security industry.
Privatization enthusiasts praise contractors as efficient and responsible purveyors of public service, but corporations, by virtue of being corporations, are incompatible with the functions of representative government.
At its core, a republic requires accountability.
We entrust to our public officials the power to act in our interest.
If they violate that trust, we expect them to either face punishment or resign from their duties.
After all, they serve us, not stockholders or CEOs.
The Dangers of Corporations Controlling National Secrets
You missed the whole point of Ike's speech.I trust our imperfect government to act in our best interests more than corporations. President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower warned us.
Eisenhower's Military-Industry Complex Warning, 50 Years Later : NPR
Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
You missed the whole point of Ike's speech.I trust our imperfect government to act in our best interests more than corporations. President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower warned us.
Eisenhower's Military-Industry Complex Warning, 50 Years Later : NPR
Go watch it again.
You missed the whole point of Ike's speech.I trust our imperfect government to act in our best interests more than corporations. President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower warned us.
Eisenhower's Military-Industry Complex Warning, 50 Years Later : NPR
Go watch it again.
I've read and watched it several times over the years. Please tell me what you think Ike's point was.
Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
So where do you get your pro corporate information?
Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
So where do you get your pro corporate information?
I support their right to profit, but I reject the notion they can be helped along with federal subsidies. That was beside the point though. Liberals try to link Corporatism to every bad deed perpetrated in America, just as the Nazis tried to link Judaism to the what ailed the world in the 1920's, 30's and 40's.
Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
The direction we're headed for in this country is corporate rule. Part of our disappearing job problem is the offshoring and outsourcing. This is done by your beloved corporations that must do everything for profit motive and the American people can go to hell. Where are the jobs going to be for the kids coming of age? We talk a lot about education however if the kids have to compete with the third world wages, they don't have much of a chance at a decent life. Both parties are bought and paid for. Obama has been pushing the trade deals that bush started, Clinton sold us out on Nafta and other giveaways. All for profit of corporations. This is probably irreversible but the republican working stiffs? Bootlicking and bowing down to the major corporations and very, very wealthy class. Me, I'm for some overthrow. Start with the oil industry by nationalizing it and using the profits for we the people. Education, health care etc. Our constant wars for corporate profit that has turned USA into international terrorists? This is what's helping bankrupt us. Stop the wars also if we want a future our upcoming generations.
John Dewey believed that "politics is the shadow big business casts over society." Corporations obscure the obvious fact that you can't even talk about meaningful democracy until you have democratic control over industry, commerce, and banking.The privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful—it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic.
It's time to completely end the privatization of national security.
Business Week recently pointed out that 99 percent of Booze Allen Hamilton's revenues come from government contracts.
Why would we pay a CEO millions, stockholders tens of millions, and workers a small fortune when the same work could and should be done by civil servants?
Even worse, our privatized national security apparatus isn’t just wasteful; it’s contrary to the founding principles of our democratic republic.
Governments can be made accountable, transparent, and responsive to “We the People.” In fact, that's the core idea of our Constitution.
On the other hand corporations, by and large, are accountable only to profits.They’re opaque, and don't give a damn about “We the People,” except for the people who run them.
There once was a time, before Reagan put us on a privatization binge, when our national security was run by our government and answerable to “We the People.”
However, ever since the Reagan Revolution, our political class has been obsessed with the idea that since government can’t do anything right, private companies should take over most of our commons, even, in this case, the commons of our national security.
And that’s created an entire industry of companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, where NSA leaker Edward Snowden worked, reaping millions in profits every year to manage and lobby for an ever-expanding and ever-more-profitable national security industry.
Privatization enthusiasts praise contractors as efficient and responsible purveyors of public service, but corporations, by virtue of being corporations, are incompatible with the functions of representative government.
At its core, a republic requires accountability.
We entrust to our public officials the power to act in our interest.
If they violate that trust, we expect them to either face punishment or resign from their duties.
After all, they serve us, not stockholders or CEOs.
More: The Dangers of Corporations Controlling National Secrets | Alternet - By Thom Hartmann
I trust our imperfect government to act in our best interests more than corporations. President Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower warned us.
Eisenhower's Military-Industry Complex Warning, 50 Years Later : NPR
Where do corporations come from?Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
The direction we're headed for in this country is corporate rule. Part of our disappearing job problem is the offshoring and outsourcing. This is done by your beloved corporations that must do everything for profit motive and the American people can go to hell. Where are the jobs going to be for the kids coming of age? We talk a lot about education however if the kids have to compete with the third world wages, they don't have much of a chance at a decent life. Both parties are bought and paid for. Obama has been pushing the trade deals that bush started, Clinton sold us out on Nafta and other giveaways. All for profit of corporations. This is probably irreversible but the republican working stiffs? Bootlicking and bowing down to the major corporations and very, very wealthy class. Me, I'm for some overthrow. Start with the oil industry by nationalizing it and using the profits for we the people. Education, health care etc. Our constant wars for corporate profit that has turned USA into international terrorists? This is what's helping bankrupt us. Stop the wars also if we want a future our upcoming generations.
Where do corporations come from?Why do I even bother coming to your OPs anymore? You post crap from Alternet and NPR. You liberals look for a way to inject anti-Corporatism into everything. Waste of my time.
The direction we're headed for in this country is corporate rule. Part of our disappearing job problem is the offshoring and outsourcing. This is done by your beloved corporations that must do everything for profit motive and the American people can go to hell. Where are the jobs going to be for the kids coming of age? We talk a lot about education however if the kids have to compete with the third world wages, they don't have much of a chance at a decent life. Both parties are bought and paid for. Obama has been pushing the trade deals that bush started, Clinton sold us out on Nafta and other giveaways. All for profit of corporations. This is probably irreversible but the republican working stiffs? Bootlicking and bowing down to the major corporations and very, very wealthy class. Me, I'm for some overthrow. Start with the oil industry by nationalizing it and using the profits for we the people. Education, health care etc. Our constant wars for corporate profit that has turned USA into international terrorists? This is what's helping bankrupt us. Stop the wars also if we want a future our upcoming generations.
Here's one possibility:
"It wasn't until the early twentieth century that courts and lawyers designed a new socioeconomic system. It was never done by legislation. It was done mostly by courts and lawyers and the power they could exercise over individual states. New Jersey was the first state to offer corporations any right they wanted..."
"Then the courts and the corporate lawyers came along and created a whole new body of doctrine which gave corporations authority and power that they never had before. If you look at the background of it, it's the same background that led to fascism and Bolshevism.
"A lot of it was supported by people called progressives, for these reasons: They said, individual rights are gone. We are in a period of corporatization of power, consolidation of power, centralization. That's supposed to be good if you're a progressive, like a Marxist-Leninist.
"Out of that same background came three major things: fascism, Bolshevism, and corporate tyranny."
Education is Ignorance, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Class Warfare)
