My Sometimes Conservative Wife Just learned How Privatization works.

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59. The push for privatization and the idea that government should be run

Like a business are two concepts that need to be laid to rest. They just are not true. Even outsourcing from one company to another in the private sector. I've worked for large companies that have outsourced work and have seen how it would clearly be more economical and efficient to do the work in house but once it's gone to some high paid CEOs friend it doesn't come back no matter how well one can illustrate that it isn't cost effective.

Trouble finding work in his fifties? Yeah, seems to be common not only for manual laborers but also for former middle class tech workers as well. In my industry hundreds were pushed out of work last year and forced to leave the city for jobs. Most have gone to New Zealand, Canada, or the UK because the studios opened offices in those places to take advantage of subsidies offered by other countries. Those left are either switching careers or competing for temporary freelance work. No one expects the work to come back unless our government offers higher subsidies (bribes) to win the work back.

That is what the world has become. A place where corporations demand bribes from local governments, use their resources for free, labor on the cheap and move on when offered a larger bribe by another location. Corporations have no ties to community or country. And our governments serve them by steadily cutting social programs to feed their ever increasing demands.

Closing in on fifty? Corporations see you as one who will have medical problems requiring healthcare and days off. Why hire someone who will have outside concerns when they can hire a younger worker in their prime willing to devote all their time to the company? We needed single payer to level the playing field in terms of healthcare costs per worker. Even then though there are still currency differences and subsidies offered by other countries that we need to combat in order to keep work from being offshored. No one in either party is talking about or offering real solutions to deal with these problems. Until someone really addresses this corporations will continue to take advantage of a desperate workforce pitting different locations and age groups against one another.

The only difference between the parties is that republicans blame people for their problems and want to cut off all aid. Democrats want to offer social programs that do nothing to address the problem and only cover a small fraction of the true cost.