In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.
In Pennsylvania, residents are resisting a corporate takeover of their water system as state lawmakers attempt to change a law that incentivizes privatization.
So it’s bog-standard “let-it-break-and-then-sell-it-for-a-song” neolib shitfuckery.
It’s the same tactic for the NHS in the UK, the one remaining publicly-owned service the Tories can’t get away with selling off, so they’re letting it slowly die.
It’s the exact same thing here in South Africa with the electricity grid - popular resistance is too strong for the ANC-regime to just sell it off to billionaire parasites, so they are just “sabotaging it in place.”
Yeah, man if Boomer’s parents could see how they are running the government systems that were so carefully put in place there would be a lot of beatings again.
We really are in the “gut everything and fire everyone so that I can save a few more bucks for myself” endgame