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This is severely snipped.

Please click on the source link

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/deweese081507.htm

1 posted on 08/19/2007 9:05:43 AM PDT by B4Ranch
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‘free trade’ public/private partnership ping


2 posted on 08/19/2007 9:13:44 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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ping


6 posted on 08/19/2007 9:56:39 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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BTT~!


8 posted on 08/19/2007 10:02:44 AM PDT by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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Report to Congress on Public Private Partnerships
9 posted on 08/19/2007 10:07:05 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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The link doesn’t work for me.


24 posted on 08/19/2007 3:53:04 PM PDT by texastoo ((((((USA)))))((((((, USA))))))((((((. USA))))))))
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Outstanding set of articles. Well worth the read:

The Principles of Freedom vs. Public/Private Partnerships

By Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center
PART ONE: TWO WAY PARTNERSHIPS

PART TWO: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY


27 posted on 08/19/2007 5:17:12 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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In fact, that Spanish-American partnership in Texas and its lease with the Texas Department of Transportation to build and run the Trans Texas Corridor contains a "no-compete" clause which prohibits anyone, including the Texas government from building new highways or expanding exiting ones which might run in competition with the TCC.

That is not free enterprise. And it's not protecting the second principle of freedom - private property.

With inside information from its own Public/Private Partnership, Kansas City Southern Railroad (KCSR) has been able to grow overnight from a two-bit belt around Kansas City to controlling a 2,600-mile artery from Lazaro Cardenas to Kansas City, straight up the Trans Texas Corridor. KCSR has obtained the rail rights up the corridor. It is now a government-sanctioned monopoly.

Protected from competition, the railroad will set the costs and the shipping rules ...

FYI--Long but worthwhile.

30 posted on 08/19/2007 6:33:24 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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Thanks for posting this, I just read it on EnterStageright.com and was searching to see if it had been posted. Should we ping the usual “free trade” radicals here, and see what they have to say about this? Probably not, they only can defend their side with ridicule and insults.


40 posted on 08/20/2007 5:47:56 AM PDT by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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BTTT

/jasper

124 posted on 08/20/2007 3:47:31 PM PDT by Jasper (Stand Fast, Craigellachie!!)
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Public/Private Partnerships, hmmm what’s the name for that? Oh yes, FASCISM!


152 posted on 08/21/2007 7:40:18 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
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bookmark


185 posted on 08/21/2007 11:11:36 AM PDT by eeevil conservative (DUNCAN HUNTER / John Bolton '08)
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