Quotes About Privatization

Moreover, a social service provided by a private company does not present itself as a collective good to which all citizens have a right.

Public theology is first and foremost a reaction against the tendency to privatize the faith, restricting it to the question of an individual's salvation. As we shall see in later chapters, the church is not a collection of saved individuals but the culmination of the plan of salvation: to create a people of God.

More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.

Giving the world's poor mobile telephony is proving easier than providing them with clean water – an argument, perhaps, for leaving the provision of clean water to the private sector rather than weak, corrupt governments.

You can auction coal blocks. All natural resources of government should be auctioned.

greatest beneficiaries of the chaos of the Soviet collapse, however, were those who acquired state property.

The oil industry—which in productivity terms was one of the great success stories of privatization—also began a slow but steady renationalization

In the early 1990s, Khodorkovsky made a fortune by attracting government deposits to his bank and speculating against the collapsing ruble. His bank, Menatep, was the largest holder of government funds, and much of the profit he made as a banker came at the government's expense.19 Khodorkovsky used his banking business to expand into other sectors, purchasing the Yukos oil company at a knock-down price in 1995 through a scandal-plagued privatization scheme.

Privately owned, of course, with no nonsense about nationalization—for has not the Führer said that Bolshevism is the Public Enemy Number One? Isn't it fear of Bolshevism that is enabling Germany to undermine and destroy the governments of every country in Europe?

There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to,

In 1982 I reported and wrote a Time cover story called "Inmate Nation" about what's now called mass incarceration, because the number of U.S. inmates had just started to increase sharply and, to my editor and me, alarmingly—that year by 43,000 to 412,000. The total number of inmates today is 1.5 million, of whom 130,000 are in privately run prisons.

All attempts are being made through bringing down the share price of government organizations to soil their good image in order to facilitate privatization and favor private corporations and thus politicians want to profit with ill money

Another example to prove that this stock market's bumper downfall is manipulated to boost privatization is that private banks share price has not fallen so much as much as that of govt banks. Attempt is being made to sell all PSUs to greedy private players by Government

Bad performance of PSU shares does not mean that these are bad performing companies in real market. It is a joint dirty game plan of politicians and corporates to promote privatization

Govt PSU shares have got the maximum beatings and gone down ruthlessly since Oct'21 during this stock market carnage and this clearly shows that this fall is fishy and big corporates along with govt politicians and news media are playing game plan to malign the image of PSUs to promote privatization and loot public investors money

NALCO share can't go up Rs.73.5 in this month so whenever it touches this price, sell all from your portfolio if holding it. Private bookies are trying to bring its price abysmally low to let it privatized. If fundamentals were responsible for price , then it can never go to this low level

NALCO share has come down from Rs.130 to Rs.67 in just 45 days i.e around 50%fall. Is it not an attempt by corporate biggies to malign its image so that it can be privatized. It is a huge cash rich and big profit making company . Some bad elements are involved in pulling down its price so it can be purchased by private org at the lowest price.

Tomorrow the sensex is most likely to close between 53950-53750. Government units shares like gail, sail, bhel, gmdc, nalco,ongc, ioc , banks are to get most beating. Politicians are trying to project bad image through this manupulated fall to boost privatization

function is another manifestation of the public/private merger: the for-profit prison companies have, in essence, established themselves as part of the government, and laws are written by them and for their benefit. In the case of the prison industry, that's particularly

Whether you agree or disagree with privatization, two things are obvious. First, taxpayers need to be asking more and better questions before handing over control of critical public assets like a highway, an airport, or a parking meter concession. And second, Uncle Sam is being played for a sucker.

However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

Many people say the privatisation was unfair: that is true - it was unfair. That is a fact: some people became rich and others did not. Unfair does not mean illegal, but it was inevitably unfair.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country