Next on DOGE’s chopping block: "We should prioritize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” including public services such as the postal service and Amtrak newrepublic.com/post/192360/... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 11 days ago

Next on DOGE’s chopping block: "We should prioritize anything that can reasonably be privatized,” including public services such as the postal service and Amtrak

https://newrepublic.com/post/192360/elon-musk-next-targets-amtrak-postal-service

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stewtoon.bsky.social•11 days ago

Thatcher on steroids.

radtek58.bsky.social•11 days ago

So ridiculous

europeanbriton.bsky.social•11 days ago

Isn’t that what Putin did too?

coolafboomermom.bsky.social•11 days ago

If Americans accept this, the experiment is OVER. The Democratic Party is not up to this task. The people have to do it.

wanwizard.bsky.social•11 days ago

Like Russia did. Which created the oligarchs and a piss-poor population.

humzas-brain.bsky.social•11 days ago

Have these idiots learned nothing?

smudkicker.bsky.social•11 days ago

😂

etudious.bsky.social•11 days ago

I knew they were going to go after Amtrak. Screw these assholes and their gross agenda.

susieq60.bsky.social•11 days ago

And they wonder who is the monkey & who's the organ grinder. EM has always wanted to be Emperor.

kabbman.bsky.social•11 days ago

And the man from Del Monte "he says yes". On next week's episode Musk hires Eritreans on a Zero hours contract to deliver a 2nd class letter. As they are 2nd class so it makes sense.
Does the word reasonably even factor in their world.

fitzchain.bsky.social•11 days ago

Privatising post and trains has never worked out well.
Anywhere.
(Ask the Brits)

baselgooner.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s gone so well here in the UK?

whysocialmedia.bsky.social•11 days ago

With Amtrak, what is there to privatise?

leesylou.bsky.social•11 days ago

🤮

cmozog.bsky.social•11 days ago

Note that privatized means increased cost for consumers while they are gutting all consumer protections.

amamus.bsky.social•11 days ago

Privatise the postal service and Amtrak? Because that has worked SOOO well in the U.K. ! … NOT!

grumpycook.bsky.social•11 days ago

Their postal service will become an unaffordable basket case like ours and only fit enough for billionaires to pillage. Then the state will bail it out and copy & paste

sparkybrit.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeltsin/Pinochet’s “shock therapy”

morpheus55.bsky.social•11 days ago

NO JUST NO

artpeace.bsky.social•11 days ago

😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

richdef.bsky.social•11 days ago

They obviously haven’t seen the consequences that policy has on the UK’s privatised services.

andyprentice.bsky.social•11 days ago

The (far) right hates public services and only wants to profit from them. We’ve watched this play out over my lifetime. Sensible people know that a country needs a mix of public and private sectors. One to serve the public, the other to make, create and sell stuff in an open market place.

jillsaidit.bsky.social•11 days ago

Bad idea.

cstucker.bsky.social•11 days ago

I'm still trying to find out if one is required to accept service from a private company.

bc108.bsky.social•11 days ago

This has not gone well in the UK

viewsofrob.bsky.social•11 days ago

No doubt the state will carry the risk and the oligarchs will waltz off with the profits!

smallholder.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh, please do. We've already seen the results of privatisation of vital services in the UK.
I look forward to hearing of the complete failure of the American postal and rail systems as the privatised companies rip dividends out at the expense of service.
Water & sewage next, Elon?

neurolatina.bsky.social•11 days ago

Privatize the earnings and socialize the loses.

anonymous780336.bsky.social•11 days ago

Some economics sectors need competitors and markets, and lot of others are better managed this public institutions. International comparisons and historic studies must be used to wisely sort these sectors out. USA already went too far toward privatisation, causing lots of its current failures.

calenhad-social.bsky.social•11 days ago

We privatised both those things. In both cases the outcome was shite. Railtrack went tits up and had to come back to the Government for repair; and the post office prosecuted a thousand people who'd done nothing wrong and destroyed their lives. In neither case was anyone held accountable.

jschm2681.bsky.social•11 days ago

USPS was required until 2022 to put away 75 years of pensions money. Will they just take that money away and give it to billionaires? What billionaires will buy up these 2 functions to put them out of business? Congress made them and it is Congress who would have to legislate them away.

just-coffee.bsky.social•11 days ago

As we know, project 2025, not necessarily by that name, has had the same goals for 40+ years. I hated it then as I do now.

timhhartley.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh dear. Could he pause just for a moment to see what happened here? No? Thought not. 'It's ideology gone mad,' as my Gran used to say about the socialists.

indybeech11.bsky.social•11 days ago

👎👎👎👎👎

missyj.bsky.social•11 days ago

Greedy bastards...privatization is not better.

marietree.bsky.social•11 days ago

😱

the-jolly-llama.bsky.social•11 days ago

The corporate takeover is real:

https://www.facebook.com/TrumplandDiary/posts/pfbid02LgYiTeQmG4jCiQ96dSR8GMgMe7azbgHdmenrwCsjfo4EQdj9ymF9gcstRHYXVHfPl

razorii.bsky.social•11 days ago

Musk... a high window... wouldn't that be a shame.

1968bex.bsky.social•11 days ago

Delightful chap 🤬🤬🤬🤬

thelacombe.bsky.social•11 days ago

Illinois tried that. With that pesky line item called profit, it cost the state much more than simply doing it themselves. The big lesson learned was NEVER privatize govt services. Iowa did that with Medicaid MCOs, and now hospitals and providers rarely get paid. NEVER privatize govt services.

just-coffee.bsky.social•11 days ago

😡

montyofdodgington.bsky.social•11 days ago

The rich want you forever renting and in debt!..

just-coffee.bsky.social•11 days ago

Home ownership is not the panacea you must think to be.

safirepi.bsky.social•11 days ago

So American voters will pay more, own less, and the billionaires will get even richer. The speed of the lurch from boring stewardship under Biden to outright nihilistic chaos as Trump and Musk pillage the nation is a shock, even for those who saw Project 25 was the only manifesto in the table.

andy-1967.bsky.social•11 days ago

Always a good idea to privatise government functions. It never ends badly for the public…..

winter02.bsky.social•11 days ago

UK here. We trialled that. It stinks.

cdtplug.bsky.social•11 days ago

Let them enjoy it, as much as we have.

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