Goverment spending which makes you happy, but you rarley think about

[Arrian]

[Jon Miller]

Student Support program...

JM

[JimmyCracksCorn]

health care

[Provost Harrison]

The traffic cones hotline

[DinoDoc]

I'll have to agree with tax cuts.

[ajbera]

Parks

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by molly bloom
No, REFUSE such collections!

Those people are from the government, and you think they're there to HELP ?

Think how much more cost-effective it would be if Union Carbide or ntl or Enron or Railtrack collected your waste.

I'm pretty sure our garbage collection is privatized, and we don't ever have problems...

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Ecthy

Originally posted by Lancer
Defense

Defence

[chequita guevara]

@ Wigbot.

[Bosh]

Subway construction

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


OTOH, the free market moved extremely quickly in the markets of money-laundering gas stations, heroin, guns and sex slaves.

Yes, and in the former Yugoslavia the influence of the free market and of people hoping to profit from the privatization of previously state run services helped ensure the deaths of Bosnians.

Thanks very much, Douglas Hurd, you cynical profiteering bast@rd...

When Douglas Hurd took up a job with the National Westminster Bank last year, only three months after retiring as Foreign Secretary, I was rather puzzled. Not by the indecent haste with which he scampered off into a City boardroom -- that's par for the course these days --but by his apparent lack of qualifications. In his long and undistinguished career he had been a cane-wielding prefect at Eton, a suave Foreign Office mandarin, an even suaver Foreign Office minister and an author of fair-to-middling political thrillers. But his experience of high finance was precisely nil. What, then, could he offer his new employers that would justify a salary of £250,000?

Now we know. On July 24, in his capacity as deputy chairman of NatWest Markets, Hurd enjoyed a "discreet breakfast" in Belgrade with Slobodan Milosevic, the president of Serbia. NatWest has been hired to prepare the Serbian post and telephone system, PTT, for privatisation -- which should earn the bank a fee of more than $10million. For good measure, it has also won a contract to adviseMilosevic’s government on debt management.

"Hurd came to thank Milosevic personally for the business," a source in Belgrade told the Sunday Telegraph, "and he did this because NatWest wants to scoop up forthcoming privatisations in the electricity and oil sectors which will be worth millions."

Accompanying Hurd on the trip was another newly-recruited NatWest executive, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones -- who was, until very recently, political director of the Foreign Office and attended last November's peace talks in Dayton, Ohio, as the senior British representative from the so-called Contact Group.

Balkan experts remember her from Dayton as a "very tough" negotiator who was continually pushing the Bosnians to accept the de facto partition of their nation.

Francis Wheen The Guardian, London, September 4th 1996

[Tingkai]

The people who scrape dead things off the street.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Tingkai
The people who scrape dead things off the street.

Rightwing politicians looking for ideas or voters or food ?