GRAPHIC: Why Corporations Want Our Public Schools

[yurbud]

63. I wish you were right, but privatization of government services is a well-documented long term

project.

Think of it like defense contractors: we take it for granted that private companies build the weapons for our military. Sometimes they compete among themselves, sometimes one company buys up all its competitors, and sometimes they work as a cartel as in the market in overall.

But in general, being a defense contractor is a sweet deal because the people using your product don't make buying decisions, a small handful of legislators and Pentagon generals do. The contractors can legally bribe the decision makers with campaign contributions or high paying jobs when they leave government service.

And because the decision-maker is not the user, product quality and even price are not as important as they are for products sold to the general public.

It is the worst of the private and public sector.