Privatizing California: S.B. 792

by Ann Garrison Sunday, Aug. 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM

If the state privatizes our Candlestick Point Park, then, as budget crises worsen at every level, what’s next? What’s to stop the privatization of every park in California? The federal government has, since the Reagan era, championed the privatization of everything from prisons to HUD foreclosure counseling, so, if California joins the rush to privatize, how long will it be before we’re told we have to put up with a coal-fired power plant generating electricity for a uranium mining operation in Death Valley National Monument, just like those in Saharan Niger, because, otherwise, we just can’t afford the park anymore?

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Cross post from the "San Francisco Bay View, National Black Newspaper," http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/privatizing-california-senate-bill-792/ .

Original: Privatizing California: S.B. 792