Tuesday, August 2, 2011

thought no. 25

Republicans are always going on about how they need to shrink the government. They often imagine doing this through the process of privatizing government services. But one of the primary requirements for a successful capitalist venture, at least in the modern world, is growth. So what that means is that conservatives want to shrink government by giving its duties over to organizations who by their very nature require becoming larger.

Imagine the implications of that for something like privatizations of prisons.

We already know the effects of it in war, don't we?

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