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 Reasonablib rated 44 months ago- "The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization" This site has some good information, But there stated goal, "is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.", is a biased towards the people who fund this think tank. The private sector is good at making money and being competitive, which are not bad things in them selves. But when applied to Topics that include "reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation" For-profit corporations are institutions that by law are obligated to put the profits of their investors ahead of all other considerations. The goal of maximizing profits is often in conflict with the practice of responsible citizens. Corporations have a bad track record. Take a look at the US prison system. We have the largest incarceration rate per capita than all off Europe. One explanation is that the corporatized prison system in order to maximize profits, spends hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby congress to increase prison sentencing among other things to of coerce increase their profits for the share holders. That's what it is all about making money and growing bigger or another corporation will gobble them up. That's where the competition comes in. Competition and capitalism are not moral or democratizing forces that we have been led to believe by the elite few who benefit from it the most. (The media is owned by six or 7 conglomerates) .Social security privatization has been tried in England. France and Sweden and has failed. It didn't fail for the moneyed elite. That was who it was designed for. But for the overwhelming majority less was saved than if they still had their old government run system. Sure there is waist in government, that "waist" is paid out in jobs, while the "profits" of corporations go to the few elite. Think about it the governments job in part is to serve and protect your needs while a business primary goal is to make the most profits by finding ways to reduce services and/or reducing the cost of making the product by reducing the quality or outsourcing to nations that have lax labor and environmental laws. This in turn promotes the countries to keep things as they are, detouring democracy from the fear of the ruling elite that they will be voted out of power.
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