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1. A "Public-Private Partnership", (a euphemism for the "corporatism" sought by Mussolini)

Wed Mar 25, 2015, 12:00 PM

Mar 2015

http://city-countyobserver.com/public-private-partnerships-and-home-grown-soft-fascism/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism#Fascist_corporatism

We have no business contracting out our democracy in general, and especially our judicial authority, to corporations who do it for whatever they can extract from citizens.

(K and R. Thanks for posting.)

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In modern-day debtors' prisons, courts team with private sector [View all] octoberlib Mar 2015 OP

+1 octoberlib Mar 2015 #4

Contact your legislators. bobclark86 Mar 2015 #2

This isn't happening in my state .... yet, but good advice. octoberlib Mar 2015 #5

Yup. Nip it in the bud n/t bobclark86 Mar 2015 #7

#ShutDownTheFuckBarrel NuclearDem Mar 2015 #3

I love John Oliver. Thanks for posting! octoberlib Mar 2015 #6

Repug policies bleed states dry... lame54 Mar 2015 #8