pro-privatization

ALEC is the umbrella group of mega-corporate execs, commerce-friendly think tanks and state GOP lawmakers who gather at summits to formulate pro-business, pro-privatization, pro-deregulation and anti-middle/working class policies.

Wendy Block: AT&T -- Not My Credo Wendy Block 2011

In the Social Security privatization debate, pro-privatization fanatics like Peter Ferrara were using far-from-market interest rates to make privatization sound like a free lunch.

The Stern Swindle, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

As I read posts on other blogs, such as Dead Parrots, I see very little of the sorts of phony arguments that Krugman associates with the pro-privatization side.

Bartlett and Krugman, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

That might complicate matters for corporations managing water systems for profit, a water distribution type system (as opposed to government ownership) looked upon with favor by American administrations with a pro-privatization bent.

Edward Flattau: Elemental War 2010

And many GOP leaders in the House are looking to resurrect President Bush's failed pro-privatization plan from 2005, with Minority Leader John Boehner recently telling the Pittsburgh-Tribune Review that he supports raising the retirement age to 70.

Edwin D. Hill: Ensuring Another 75 Years of Social Security 2010

You know there is something strange going on when Republicans, who ostensibly should be pro-privatization, are arguing as though they are from the Soviet Politburo.

Conflict over NASA spaceflight program complicates funding 2010

The pro-privatization crowd should put their agenda on hold for a bit and support Congressman Obey's sensible plan to use every possible discretionary dollar to keep our schools fully staffed.

Diane Ravitch: Support Congressman Obey's Edujobs Bill 2010

You know there is something strange going on when Republicans, who ostensibly should be pro-privatization, are arguing as though they are from the Soviet Politburo.

Conflict over NASA spaceflight program complicates funding 2010

But perhaps the most Republican aspect of this imperial mayor is his pro-privatization bias, and his insistence in giving away precious public school space to charter schools.

Leonie Haimson: Reporting On The Bloomberg Campaign: Too Little Too Late 2009

Just to make sure Americans do the right thing, the pro-privatization worthies further suggested, in the words of a Reuters account, that maybe the coming federal stimulus package "should tie stimulus funds to private capital involvement."

Thomas Frank: Toll Roads Are Paved With Bad Intentions 2009