Outsourcing America

The Center for Media and Democracy has launched a new website exposing outsourcing and privatization efforts by corporations: Source Watch Portal. A big part of the neoliberal agenda here at home is to “liberate” markets from regulation (aka oversight and accountability) while shrinking the size of government overall, ala the Republicans shut down today, but another key component is to privatize and outsource public goods. These include education, healthcare, retirement and utilities, among a host of others. The problem is that the positive externalities associated with these public goods are too often pushed to the side when private ventures and interests intervene. We can see this with the failed attempt to privatize public schools: either directly as in Philadelphia or indirectly through the highly touted but largely unsuccessful and unviable Charter School Movement. Included with the launch is the following piece from Pulitzer Prize winning video journalist Mark Fiore: 

Or you can access the video here: You Tube