On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:07:14 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in
Srpce.26243$c24.22849@attbi_s72::

However, you *know* what would happen. It would be "privatized" in the
same way that Chicago Tollways are "privatized", and become nothing but
sink-holes for graft and kickbacks.

Or in the same way that energy was privatized in California:
http://www.westmarinalliance.org/glo...rgy_crisis.htm

Deregulation and Privatization of Public Services under FTAA

California’s energy crisis is quickly becoming old news. The
mainstream press is saturated with reports of exorbitant rates and
rolling blackouts that have plagued the state in the years since
its ill-fated move to deregulate and privatize utilities. Hardly a
soul in Sacramento these days would dare subscribe to the notion
that deregulation has been good for the California economy.
Thousands of utility workers have been laid off, union contracts
have been steadily eroded, the health and safety of low-income,
elderly and sick Californians – all of whom suffer the most
because of blackouts and rate hikes – has been put at risk. And
yet further deregulation and privatization of essential public
services is exactly what the federal government has in store for
us under the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). ...


Can you say Enron? :-(