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ishiki on 24 April 2011
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mrstickball said:
mchaza said:

i am against Privatisation. Never ever leave state essenitals like Power, water, gas, and public transport to privatisation. It will only lead to increased power, water and gas bills with little or no improvements to the networks and an public transport system where ticketing is the prioity and not saftey or fast relieable services. 

What about in Sandy Springs, Georgia where they privatized everything but firemen and law enforcement, and were able to cut city expenditures by 50% while improving the quality of services offered?

@Khan - Why would such a person be unelectable? You mention Ross Perot - You know had he not dropped out of the race, he would have likely won, as he was handily beating both Bill Clinton and George Bush in polls, right?


things don't necessarily scale as sandy springs =/= U.S. Just because things work on a small scale does not mean they realistically will work on a large scale.

Also, it's possible that if it was too heavily privatized people would say the privatized industries are not being fair and the government would subsequently have to step in anyway.

Look at what currently is happening, the privatization of the nuclear power plant in fukushima is under fire as well. It's very possible that the state wouldn't have taken necessary precautions as well. But privatization didn't work there in that instance.

I'm not saying this canidate is not a good canidate. I haven't read enough about him. And even then it's hard to know until they're in office.

I'm not saying these ideas will not work. As most ideas in theory work, it's how practical is the actual solution is.