User talk:WoodyGuthrie

Privatization is considered by some of it's opponents to be a form of theft of the commons.

Privatization is a legitimate sounding word to describe the libertarian concept of private management or private control of public resources or functions.

Privatization at best may provide an alternative to public management of governmental functions or publicly owned assets, including, for example, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers property.

Privatization became popularized by the libertarian economist Milton Friedman of the Chicago School of Economics, and was implemented in many areas of the federal government beginning with the presidential administration of former Hollywoood actor and California Republican Governor Ronald Reagan.

Privatization, at worst, may lead to the loss of managment control or actual ownership of public property and traditional governmental functions such as public parks & recreation, public schools, public hospitals, libraries, prisons, municipal courts, fire departments, Department of Defense military operations, including intelligence gathering and overt and covert operations.

Privatization has been implemented with virtually no public oversight or public mechanisms for evaluating the true costs to the American taxpayer, or the impacts on civil liberties, fiscal gains or real improvements in providing public services.