Hades vs Public Education – The Clash of the Titans
In a recent Op-Ed by Dave Johnson for Alter-Net and reprinted by Truthout entitled “Privatization Nightmare: 5 Public Services That Should Never Be Handed Over to Greedy Corporations”, Johnson makes a serious point.
“Privatization is the 1% taking public wealth so they can make money off of it for themselves.Instead of democracy collecting taxes from the 1% privatization leaves everyone poorer and paying rent to the 1%.
Private Not Public Interest
There is a fundamental conflict of interest between public and private. When things are privatized of course profit comes first, not public interest. Public functions are supposed to serve the public, us, We, the People. The ‘private’ in ‘privatization’ means that it is done for the private gain of a