"PRIVATIZATION", is there a LIMIT TO "MARKETS"??

What Happens when we Run Out of "Natural Markets"?

As a retired Marketing Director for a Blue Chip corporation, I know a few things about Markets and Marketing.  I was taught Marketing and Finance by Peter Drucker, twenty-five years ago.

Some things, like groceries, that require wide distribution are "naturals" for markets and marketing.  Other things, like the water we drink and the air we breathe, ARE NOT!  This country achieved greatness partly because we expanded education, mostly for free, and to the public (only for the whites, initially).

But watch out: We're entering the period of widespread "Artificial Markets" in which people who control large sums of money "create markets" by cornering substances like food and water; substances the buyer can't "live" without (Literally!).   Then, they limit availability to  only those who can pay their price.  Sound familiar?

Google:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel and you can read the story of the "privatization" of water in Bolivia and it's consequences for the citizens who couldn"t pay the prices.  This source shows that even the water that fell from the heavens onto Bolivian roofs belonged to Bechtel.

Listen carefully, and you will hear Mitt and the Repoobs pushing for the privatization of our K-12 education system.  If you think K-12 education can't get any worse, you're wrong.

I'm old enough to remember when insurance companies sold insurance (life, death, property, etc.) and stayed the hell out of health care.  Health transactions were between patient and doctor or hospital.  In places where I grew up, the patient had to find a medical care provider of the same skin color, or had to go without or died; whether you could pay for it or not!

There is healthy and trustworthy market making, and then there are the more sinister players.  Its time to remind U.S. Citizens that "Caveat Emptor" or "Buyer Beware!" has never been more critical than it is today.  That goes for politics, health care, and perhaps, your food and water.


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