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Saturday, April 10, 2010

The Perimeter Primate: Sunday reading: Privatization in your face (Two short articles extra credit)

The Perimeter Primate: Sunday reading: Privatization in your face (Two short articles extra credit)

Sunday reading: Privatization in your face (Two short articles + extra credit)

1. Schwarzenegger leads the way with selling off California’s assets and removes those who question him from his path. This is neoliberalism in its true form: the transfer of wealth belonging to the masses (the State) into the hands of a small number of private individuals. Read this article carefully to absorb what is happening here. A local version of this would be if OUSD (Oakland Unified School District) sold its properties off, then turned around to rent back its schools from its new landlords in perpetuity.
2. Schwarzenegger professes his love and admiration for Milton Friedman: economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, Mr. Free-Market, and the neoliberal creator of all this mess. The movement to privatize public education started