Privatization Of Water Supply - No Way !!
Posted on Thursday, April 01 at 21:18 by Jim Callaghan
They were inefficient, they overcharged as much as 70%, and they hurt the poorest of the poor.
If a person became deep in debt in South Africa to the water company, they would simply move the owners out and auction off the house to pay down the debt.
A person who was trying to get a better price for water in France had his house torched when they were away. This is serious business. He even referred to the private companies as the "Mafia" and they sued him.
Guess what ? The courts agreed with him and he beat the charges. I Love it !!
I was so amazed at the French situation, because they had been under private control since the days of Napolean. Think about it.
Private companies only operate for profit. Drinkng water should be available to everyone, at a minimum cost. Not so around the world.
It will only get worse as our population keeps growing.
Visit this site for more information:
http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/deadinthewater/index.html
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A working financial system would stimulate investment into new and innovative products. Not put the squeeze onto the most ancient of them.
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If we are standing still we are moving backwards.
I really don't get it.
I watched the show and kept wondering why the mayor of Moncton wasn't in prison for what he did and what he tried to do, yet apparently there isn't even a law against what he did. Meanwhile the guy from Vivendi openly admitted that some of his friends were in prison. He just kind of shrugged and said, "That's business."
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Dave Ruston
Therefore you can spray a chemical that is carcinogenic, mutinogenic and teritogenic to kill mosquitos, and all the higher level entities that eat mosquitos, to keep 20 or 30 people from dying of some flu bug but you let thousands of people die from aids rather than providing aids drugs. Not to mention the health problems caused to the people who are in the vicinity of the spray.
All they do is spin the problem. For instance, private corps with their vast pools of capital should be allowed into the health care system because governments don't have the money to expand and improve it. So they imply that corps have the money, in practice they actually borrow our money from our banks and pay a much greater interest rate than the government would have to. The fact that the polimurderers don't point this out should tell you something.