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    OUTSOURCING: Ceding Governmental Responsibility

    By Richard Day on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 4:57pm |
    I came across this at The Daily Beast yesterday:

    Hillary Transue, 17, of Wilkes-Barre, PA, knew something was wrong when she was sentenced to three months in juvenile detention for making fun of her assistant principal on MySpace in 2007. "I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare," Transue said. Now federal prosecutors say that Transue's Kafkaesque ordeal was part of a vast kickback scheme between two judges, Mark A. Ciavarella Jr. and Michael T. Conahan, and two privately run youth detention centers, who paid off the courts in order to secure lucrative subsidies for taking in more teens. The accused judges pleaded guilty yesterday and will get a taste of their own medicine with 87 months in prison. Now officials are trying to figure out what to do with the estimated 5,000 juveniles who were sentenced by Ciavarella from 2003 on, when the scam began, some of whom are still in detention centers.

    Folks (as lush rimjob always says) this is out sourcing.  You see government is so over beauracratised (Fox, WSJ, Nazi International, and other right wing pubs) that we need the cut all the crap oomph of private industry to 'grease the wheels' and get things working. 

    So here we have the government out sourcing mandatory housing for children to the grand private sphere and boy is this not a wonderful example of greasing the wheels. And greasing the hands of judges so little girls can receive mandatory housing for throwing oral excrement on vice principals. 

    Yesterday, I watched Colbert or Stewart (a rerun and I forget which) and a guest noted that twenty years ago, there would be a civilian employee of a contractor for every ten soldiers.
    Today there are 140,000 soldiers in Iraq and 170,000 civilian (and I use that word judiciously) employees of contractors in Iraq.

    I noted in a previous blog that there is mandatory housing for adults that have been found guilty of more grevious crimes than children throwing oral excrement provided by private contractors in this country. 

    Do you know why reps are all for out sourcing.  Their argument really boils down to this.  Government must take responsibility for the worker.  Government must provide standards for hiring and firing.  Standards for pay grades. Standards for pensions. Standards for health care.  Those at the upper eschelon of that pay grade system do not make more money in a day than the lowest worker makes in a year. Government does not abuse the worker.

    We are in the process of creating the true fascist society, folks.  The partnership between the government and powerful private corporations where all rights and power of the people are placed in the hands of powerful corporate management leaving nothing for the citizen.

    Do you know how much money we have thrown away, given away to management during this illegal war? Hundreds of billions of dollars.  In Iraq the greedy fascists employ Indians, Indonesians, Africans....for pennies on the dollar and then pocket the real fruits of American Taxpayer monies.

    This really bothers me and it should bother all of us.