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The Scarlett Privatization Connection |
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Written by Scott Silver
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Monday, 24 November 2003 |
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Quoted from Reason Public Policy Institute's (RPPI) Environmental Studies Program Policy Study No. 190:
[States and municipalities, in partnership with the private sector, are best equipped to address America's infrastructure problems. User fees, privatization, and public-private partnerships are the tools needed for this task.]
Why should you or I be concerned about what RPPI says or thinks --- they're just a think-tank, funded by Koch, Scaife, Bradley, Lilly and other funders of hard-right causes -- aren't they?
Well no, actually. They're not just ANY old think tank.
[New Environmentalism -- RPPI's Executive Director Lynn Scarlett has become one of the nation's leading voices for a "new environmentalism" that emphasizes incentives, flexibility, private stewardship, and decentralized decisionmaking.]
Lynn Scarlett, isn't merely RPPI's Executive Director, she is the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget of the Department of Interior.
It was Lynn Scarlett who recently testified before Congress in support of fee-demo and it is Lynn Scarlett who is currently championing the Bush Administration's efforts to permanently authorize this controversial privatization program.
User fees, public-private partnerships and volunteerism are the favorite privatization tools of the Bush Administration. And, as I hope most folks appreciate, Fee-Demo has precious little to do with recreation and almost everything to do with ideology.
Scott
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