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“The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.”

Noam Chomsky

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First, the government takes money away from a public service. Then, because there's no money, the service stops working well. People get upset. Finally, the government lets private companies take over.

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