Privatization: Corporate Fascism
[ PRIVATIZATION ] It's not just about the money
by Gene Messick of Earthhome.us Monday, Sept 26, 2011
URL for this article: https://earthhome.us/Corporate_Fascism.html
This is a well-thought-out essay on why the corporations oppose democracy.
For instance, on corporate sabotage of public services:
"The US Postal Service would be operating in surplus if not for a Bill rammed through a Republican Congress on a voice vote in December 2006, and signed by President Bush. This Bill required $5 billion annual PRE-payments toward retiree health benefits for 75 years into the future -- "something no other Government or private corporation is required to do," asserts Ralph Nader. https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4782"
Re: Privatization: Corporate Fascism
"Corporatism" is the Nature of the Beast
Actually, the old Post Office Department, which was a branch of the Federal Government, was privatized by Richard M. Nixon, way back in 1971. Here's the article from the Wikipedi :
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United States Post Office Department
The Post Office Department (1792–1971) was the name of the United States Postal Service when it was a Cabinet department. It was headed by the Postmaster General.
The Postal Service Act signed by President George Washington on February 20, 1792, established the Department. Postmaster General John McLean was the first to call it the Post Office Department rather than just the "Post Office." The organization received a boost in prestige when President Andrew Jackson invited his Postmaster General, William T. Barry, to sit as a member of the Cabinet in 1829.[1] The Post Office Act of 1872 (17 Stat. 283) elevated the Post Office Department to Cabinet status.[2]
During the Civil War (1861–65), postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the CSA Post Office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan.
The Postal Reorganization Act was signed by President Richard Nixon on August 12, 1970. It replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent Postal Service on July 1, 1971.
Thus, we have, in the Postal Service, a Private Corporation, at work, making a profit, while many folks still believe that it is a Government Agency. Actually it is and it isn't. That seems to be the Nature of Corporatism - the Federal Reserve Bank also masquerades as legitimate branch of the Government and still has many folks fooled by its Name.
Blind Senator Schall, a maverick Republican from Minnesota, revealed in a speech on the floor of the Senate in 1934, that All of the new Alphabet Agencies ( e.g., the W.P.A.; C.C.C.; F.D.A. etc.) that were proliferating in the first two years of the New Deal, were registered as Delaware Corporations. Thus the New Deal itself, so touted by Liberals (and damned by "Conservatives") as some great experiment in "Socialism," was - (in terms of the actual Economics of the thing) - very much akin to the Corporatism of Mussolini.
- Mark Walter Evans -
