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...or you **might** wonder if privatization of infrastructure functions (water supply) is a good thing or not: this is hardly the first example of a private concern screwing up water--think chile for example (if this is too obscure, i'll find and post a link when i've a bit more time)...think british rail: fact is that the arguments for privatizing infrastructure was floated by the right in the name of efficiency, but that has not panned out at all--so the motive appears to have been different from the outset--minimizing political risk for the state in a contet of heightened uncertainty. in a strange way, ustwo is almost right for once: prvate companies are not accountable for their fuck ups....there is no way to bring pressure to bear on them, not really--so in thsi case, there is little to be done. why is that a good thing?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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