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On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:20:37 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote: Big business benefits from government privatization. Consider Halliburton's contract to do the Army's laundry in Iraq[1] for example. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Depends on the contract. Are you able to cite a single US government privatization that hasn't resulted in a windfall for private contractors? Sure. Prision privatization. Go look at CCA and see how when they are doing really well, as opposed to outright losses, they make a 10% return on equity. Great windfall that huh? Privatization also removes government accountability; private corporations are not subject to FOIA requests, for example. Why should the government be accountable for something they are no longer doing. Air Traffic Control records should remain accessible to the public, as they are now, because they may establish legal culpability. That's not the same thing. Who said anything about destroying records anyway? You think you'll get very far suing the government? Private corporations are subject to their auditors, customers, Sarbanes-Oxley and a whole host of other things. None of which will grant public access to their records as is currently possible under the FAA. a. that could be made part of the privatization b. auditors would require them to be available anyway for their review Consider the November 16, 2000 case of the Mid Air Collision of a USAF F-16 and a Cessna 172 over Florida. How would the widow of the C-172 pilot have obtained ATC records indicating the controller manning the position responsible for alerting the pilots to the imminent collision was unqualified if those records where the sole property of a private contractor? By suing them, of course. Have you never heard of discovery? b. why are the airlines backing that change? The airline industry, including the airliner manufacturers, would like nothing better than to remove congressional FAA budget oversight, and wrest the balanced governmental allocation of National Airspace System resources from US citizens, so that they can advance their air carrier agenda at the expense of other airspace users. Airliner manufacturer, Boeing, is also in the privatized ATC business.[2] Why not if they can do it better and cheaper than the government, which is a virtual sure thing. ATC is not about cheaper; it's about safer. Currently the US ATC system is the best in the world. What criteria did you use to reach your conclusion, that a new, un-tested privatized ATC system will ever end up as good, let alone better than the current system? Or is that just your unsubstantiated guess? Says who? Claiming that an ATC system based on WWII technology is better and safer than a GPS system is plain ludicrous. There are plenty of these already in use worldwide. Go look at them. Also consider, what if the private contractor who wins the NextGen competitive bid ATC contract is an Iranian firm (you know, like the Dubai ports scandal)? Do you feel that it would be appropriate for a foreign power to control the US skies? Did Dubai get the ports? And just where was the scandal? In the minds of xenophobic idiots like those that locked up the Japanese Americans in WWII. Guess what the scandal was there. An Iranian firm. Right. State of the art technology there. HAHAHAHA! |
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