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Or how 'bout the people of Chicago? How's privatization working out for them? Certain parking meters in that city have been handed over to another foreign-based firm. The rates have risen so high that people just can't afford to park there anymore. Commerce in the infected area has suffered demonstrably. That contract lasts for a century. Sweet deal!

This is not merely where we're going, folks, this is where we are. Wake up. Let's get off of our butts! We have one of two choices: put a stop to this atrocity, or passively learn to live with it -- like lemmings marching off the cliff into the sea; like corporate-controlled robots. I don't think this is what the Founding Fathers had in mind. How's that for understatement?

In the late winter of 1980, I was a student at Orange County Community College in Middletown, NY. One afternoon, my alarmed sociology professor, Dr. William Byrne, told his all-but clueless class -- "In the years to come this country will move so far to the extreme right, in 30 years you won't even recognize it."

At the time I thought he was just a tad paranoid. As it turns out, maybe not. Call it a hunch on my part, but I've got a funny feeling that the good doctor might have been onto something.

Wake up and smell the elephant sh*t.

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Tom Degan is a former Green Party candidate for New York State Senate. He writes on a blogsite called, The Rant by Tom Degan. He is the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.....Okay, he didn't really receive the Presidential Medal of (more...)
 
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