David Irving on 30 Dec 2000 22:53:58 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Privatisation of Government Services |
Additionally, on past evidence, this kind of problem seems more likely to occur when public utilitiies have been privatised than when they are still in public hands - I don't know whether it's due to greed, an inability to look past next quarter's bottom line, a lack of a notion of public service, or just plain penny-pinching stupidity. We've had a number of these incidents (mostly non-fatal except for the Victorian experience with an emergency services' vehicle routing system) in Australia. David Bill Spornitz wrote: > As well, the government of the Province of Ontario has been on a > track of *neo-liberal* privatisation for several years - wouldn't the > *Walkerton Tragedy* (as it's been called) be a result of the > weakening of the role of government in these critical social welfare > issues? It seems to me, in this case, if the government were playing > a stronger role it would be in its place to negate the effects of > such *enlightened self interest*. > > Bill > > > > From: Tom Gray@MITEL on 12/21/2000 08:54 AM > >> For those concerned with the ongoing privatisation of government services > >> and its effect on the democratic control of such services, the following > >> link is to a story on the current controversy in Canada on the water > >> supply of the village > > > >Ok, I'll bite... what does this story have to do with privatization? It > <...> > > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold