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05/08/12(Tue)22:36:40 No.2386093>>2385961 >Sure, but government already does a good job at it, At
a greater cost than would private entities. Furthermore, unless a
government's water services are provided by a private entity with an
enforced monopoly, the distribution of cost will be unfair. Even with
such a state of affairs, we could not guarantee fairness.
>and its motive is the health and welfare of the people, not the health and welfare of a corporation's bottom line. This
is very much questionable. Its motive is, more often than not, the
motive of the political party, The object of having government at all is
often assumed to be the safety, security, welfare, health,
what-have-you, of the people, but in practice it can be observed that
other things often come first as the motives of those in government -
for instance, providing for certain people over others in order to win
votes, in order to keep power, in order to exert their ideology. It's
not for a corporation's bottom line in terms of capital, but rather for a
party's bottom line in terms of voters.
>If
we privatize utilities like water, we could end up like South American
countries that are at the mercy of international angencies that can
screw the poor and sell water in the open market. There is no
readily apparent reason to suspect this. As far as facts are concerned,
there are distinct differences in situation between S. America and other
nations that might be in the position to privatise utilities. |