A 12-mile rail line that will connect Vancouver's waterfront to its airport is one of dozens of ventures like it in Canada. Provinces are turning to private companies to build and operate trains, roads, public hospitals, university facilities — even local schools.
"The way they do it is, I think, the right way to go," Schwarzenegger said in an interview. "We don't have to exactly copy it, but we can learn from those ideas."
He said that Wall Street is clamoring to invest in private infrastructure projects and that California must examine ways to "benefit from all the private money that is out there."
The governor has long championed the sort of large-scale privatization seen in Canada, calling it a solution to bureaucratic inertia and inefficiency in state government. Put services in the hands of the private sector, his argument goes, and the potential for profit will bring a new urgency to providing for the public.
But as other governments in North America and elsewhere move swiftly ahead with such plans, Schwarzenegger's privatization campaign is faltering.
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California's Governor Impressed By Privatization He Sees In Canada
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What a joke! Look, he's a megalomainiacal bucket of NWO puss, ok? What part of that don't you local leaders get? What are you going to learn from him - bad acting, womanizing or delusion of granduer? Boot licking idiots!<br />
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More on this piece of filth: <a href="http://www.arnoldexposed.com/">http://www.arnoldexposed.com/</a>
"Privatization" is nothing more than giving away public resources to "business concerns" more interested in harvesting cash than in providing services.
Who benefits from these actions?
Corporations, and those who own them.
Someone tell me how this is a good thing, I could use the laugh.
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If George W. Bush and Tony Blair are Christian as they've claimed, then pork and shrimp are Kosher.
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"Those who understand Higher Wisdom do not speak in an ordinary manner.
Those who speak in an ordinary manner do not grasp Higher Knowledge.
Lao-tzu, Orie
wasn't a reply to your post D
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"Those who understand Higher Wisdom do not speak in an ordinary manner.
Those who speak in an ordinary manner do not grasp Higher Knowledge.
Lao-tzu, Orie
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Here's a good example of the result of so-called "privatization":<br />
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/06/08/scoc-health-unions.html">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/06/08/scoc-health-unions.html</a><br />
I wonder if the government of BC can now be sued for the disruption of a service it was mandated but failed to provide. Or maybe the buggers can be thrown in jail......<br />
<p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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Give me Arnoldland before that thanks.
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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.
Well, here in Canada the program saves money in the beginning but after a few contracts latter it becomes more expensive then if one had never gone down that road and the government locally or nationally looses control of the services as well as the cost of returning back to running these services again is even more expensive then signing the contract with the service provider.
There is no cost savings here by a long shot for the public just big profits and business gains for the business elites.
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Perception is two thirds of what we perceive reality to be.
Difficult decisions are a privilege of rank.