In an interview with ABC News, Romney was pimping the Republican mantra "Privatize"
STEPHANOPOULOS: But, If you could sum up your philosophy about how you want to do it, how you want to staff up and manage the government how would you do that?
ROMNEY: I want to be able to get the federal government to see its job as encouraging the freedom and free enterprise of the American people. I do not want government to be focused on itself, but instead on encouraging on the private economy and individual freedoms such that we can reignite our economy.
So, Romney wants a government where Private Companies replace the Government making
Private Companies in charge of: roads, wars, defense, education, healthcare, the poor, the handicap, the mentally ill, prisons, police, firemen, energy, etc.
Personally, I think Romney's way would be devastating to Americans and destroy the "American Dream" for sure.
To me, Romney's way is similar FoxConn. The Private Company FoxConn who abuses their employees to such an extent that FoxConn employees began committing suicide. But, not to worry, FoxConn installed a net around their buildings so any jumpers would not die ... and yes, FoxConn is ideal to someone like Romney because FoxConn makes one hell of a profit!
As for Romney's idea to let private companies replace the government in education -- that was done, in America, when this country was founded and only rich people's kids were getting educated leaving the masses completely ignorant. So, private companies being in charge of education, did not work out too well.
In fact, the Founding Fathers would disagree with Romney's way 100%. Founding Father John Adams would have told Mitt to shove it.
"The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people and be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves."
— John Adams, U.S. President, 1785
Ben Franklin, a signer of the Constitution, and Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence would have also told Romney to shove his idea where the sun don't shine as both Franklin and Jefferson, spearheaded the effort to maintain tax dollars, and government to be in charge of public education for
all.
BEN FRANKLIN: "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
THOMAS JEFFERSON: "I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness...Preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils [tyranny, oppression, etc.] and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance."
Jefferson August 1786: Letter to George Wythe
Privatizing the
military was done under Bush/Cheney Administration and ... that did not work out too well ... Halliburton, KBR, Erik Prince.
Privatizing roads would be very, very expensive as we would all have to pay tolls for driving on different Corporation's road ... and who would fill those potholes?
Privatizing police and firemen ... well ... anyone who remembers that Tennessee man who had his house burn to the ground because he had not paid the private fire house a annual fee would not think privatizing police and firemen are a good idea.
Oh wait a minute! Wait a minute! I forgot one important part of Romney's way and that is, Romney's way forces Taxpayer money to be redistributed to Private Companies -- I get it, Romney wants to take our Tax money and give it to Private Corporations so our Tax dollars siphoned (redistributed) directly to them.
Actually, that's not the kind of President I am looking for. I do not want a President who wants to replace government with Private Corporations.
I am looking for a President who will understand that "the People" own this country collectively and therefore interstate roads, bridges, railroads, military, police, firemen, education are a collective need of the people and thus we pay for those things together -- as a country -- so everyone in the country has the same shot and opportunity.
Maybe Romney's way would work better in a third world country like Yemen, where their government does not provide: roads, bridges, education, etc and does not provide: food, shelter or medicine to their poor ... just the way Mitt Romney likes it.