 ratilfar says: Conservatives decry "socialized" law enforcement; Democrats are divided over "single-payer" police protection The private security industry, however, has mobilized to oppose a public police plan in any form. "A public police plan is a non-starter," says Kay Street, the president of the powerful American Mercenaries Association (AMA). "Our system is based on using taxpayer subsidies to encourage private crime insurance companies and the mercenaries whom they hire to provide a service that could be provided more cheaply and efficiently by government. If government actually provided police protection more cheaply, the way it is done in other countries, then what would be the point of subsidies to for-profit security providers?" Senate Minority Leader Jefferson Davis, R-Miss., agrees: "I think we shoul... Um, what long wait times? Canadians have socialized police forces, and we have very prompt police response; faster even than they do in the US, where they permit a parallel private law enforcement system. This is another Republican lie in action. Socialized anything DOES NOT equate with long waiting times, despite how loud the right wing might sputter and froth that it does. They're just trying to keep their vulture-like corporate campaign contributors in business raping the American public of their hard-earned money for something that should be a public service. The Republicans don't have your best interests at heart. They serve the interests of the Rich and the Corporate, not the typical American. Also there is something inherently wrong with having mercenaries running around on your streets. Oh...wait...Iraq.... |
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