On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:30:15 -0400, Bob Noel
wrote in
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In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

LOCKHEED MARTIN: AFSS PERFORMANCE IS IMPROVING
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Given how lousy it was when the turnover occurred, no one should
get an "atta-boy" for improvements. (-{

Agreed. Given LockMart's admission of the cause of their poor
performance being untested software and inadequate personnel training,
they must not have felt Flight Service was worthy of a professional
transition.

rant
The current regime's dogged determination to privatize virtually all
of federal government appears to be an attempt to remove government
regulation and accountability from the people, so that large
corporations can pillage the federal coffers. This privatization of
FSS is only the prelude to complete ATC privatization, IMO.

To see how effective privatization is in achieving those goals, one
only needs to look at Bush's illogical war in Iraq:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cJlJudDtVE
http://iraqforsale.org/ . Prisoner interrogation is out-sourced;
private contractors are not signatory to the Geneva Convention.
Blackwater security guards are exempt from local and federal laws
while operating in Iraq. Halliburton charges US tax payers $99.00 per
load to wash solders laundry, and solders are ordered not to do their
own. This article http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=30834 is
two years old; there are over 50,000 Peruvian mercenaries now in Iraq.
If this war wasn't about corporate greed, Bush could have poured the
2-1/2 billion dollars a week it's costing us into jobs for the Iraqi
youth, or purchased all the weapons from the insurgents with plenty of
money to spare. When will the American people wake up to what the
Bush regime is doing in their name?

Ask the former Enron employees how responsible large corporations are
in meeting their retirement obligations. That's the sort of
accountability you can expect from privatization.
/rant