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Thursday, June 11, 2009
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  • Chamber of Commerce pledges to spend $100M in an effort to stem the "rapidly growing influence of government over private-sector activity." Which prompts the SEIU to launch a counter-campaign: "It's going to take more than a $100M PR campaign to make people believe that greedy CEOs have their best interests at heart."
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This news story has 5 comments:

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    Milton Friedman put it best:
    "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
    Jun 11 01:44 PM | Link | Reply
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    Since the private sector has basically failed, what makes you pinheads think the Gum'mint could ever possibly be WORSE than the "geniuses" who ran America into the ground?
    Jun 11 01:47 PM | Link | Reply
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    considering how badly the private sector has performed, and how much they have captured of the public sector, are we doomed to not be able to get any thing to work right?
    Jun 11 01:55 PM | Link | Reply
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    How badly has the private sector performed. Are your utilities dependable? Can you Google? Wake up! A few rotten apples are spoiling the whole barrel for you.


    On Jun 11 01:55 PM dw57 wrote:

    > considering how badly the private sector has performed, and how much
    > they have captured of the public sector, are we doomed to not be
    > able to get any thing to work right?
    Jun 11 02:53 PM | Link | Reply
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    sure there dependable. to raise prices. and normally will provide service. but guess what? does the fireman come if you call? or the police? or maybe the army does its job?
    the same could be said about the public sector couldn't it?

    but when the private sectors with their selected government is in charge we end up with a mess. like the tea pot dome scandal before. only this time we will probably never see the money trail.


    On Jun 11 02:53 PM Poor Texan wrote:

    > How badly has the private sector performed. Are your utilities dependable?
    > Can you Google? Wake up! A few rotten apples are spoiling the whole
    > barrel for you.
    Jun 11 03:38 PM | Link | Reply
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