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Old April 12th, 2013, 05:14 PM posted to soc.retirement,uk.politics.misc,alt.horror,alt.politics.economics,rec.travel.europe
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Default 'France is in need of a dose of Thatcherism'. Paris basedProfessor of Economics tells why France could do with its own dose of Thatcherism.

On Apr 12, 8:59Â*am, ПеаБраин wrote:


remember a corporation does not work for us it works for the
corporation first not rule of law: privatization is a direct assault
on our constitution, democracy, and human rights: privatization that
Mrs. Thatcher hadÂ*not warned them about.Â*PricesÂ*did not decline
proportionally to cost cuts and productivity gains. Many services were
cut back, especially on the least utilized transport routes. The
largest privatized bus company was charged with cut-throat monopoly
practices.Â*The waterÂ*system broke down, while consumer charges leapt.
ElectricityÂ*pricesÂ*were shifted against residential consumers in favor
of large industrial users. Economic inequality widened as the
industrial labor force shrunk by two million from 1979 to 1997, while
wages stagnated in the face of soaring profits for the
privatizedÂ*companies. The tax cuts financed by their selloff turned
out to benefit mainly the rich.



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Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is
a merger of state and corporate power.
Benito Mussolini

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of
corporate and government power.
Benito Mussolini


"The perfect liberty they seek is the liberty of making slaves of
other people." -- Abraham Lincoln

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