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Auggie

(33,008 posts)

7. Or privatized water

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #4)

Mon May 7, 2012, 12:47 PM

May 2012

Disaster capitalism: create a crisis, like a water shortage, then offer "magical" solutions through the privatizing of government programs. Who's to say WalMart (or Becthel, Halliburton, et al) doesn't want to expand their business into water delivery and/or fire and police protection? Consider the billions earned by private garbage and cable companies -- why not water?

http://www.serconline.org/waterPrivatization/fact.html

Hands off Hetch Hetchy!