Sunday, December 29, 2013

Parking meters and prisons: Top six privatization horror stories + MORE

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RUSH: Let me ask you a quick question here, folks. Can you imagine — and I"m serious here, now — can you imagine what the news would be like today if all of those 2,500 businesses and unions and others had not received Obamacare waivers? Can you imagine what it would be like? I mean, we are just getting the tiniest glimpse of the horrors of this…

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‘That’s Crazy’: Blaze Readers React to ‘Connecticut Gun Owners Wait in Line to Do Something Many Gun Owners Hope They Never Have To’Image source: WFSB-TV

TheBlaze posted a story earlier this week about Connecticut gun owners waiting in line to get their firearms and high-capacity magazines registered before new state laws go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.

In the story some residents seemed upset by the requirement, which they called “unconstitutional”; others didn’t seem to mind…

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Selling public resources to private companies for them to profit off of is a hot trend in cities and states—not all of them controlled by Republicans, either. Privatization deals affecting everything from parking meters to child welfare to public water systems are often negotiated in secret, carried out with little oversight, and subject to massive cost overruns and corruption…


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El Salvador volcano erupts, evacuations ordered…(First column, 16th story, link)Related stories:Quake in southern Italy rattles Naples area…

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Parking meters and prisons: Top six privatization horror stories + MORE

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