by Melanie Cervantes of JustSeeds
The City of Chicago has a history of privatizing public assets in order to get a quick influx of cash to fill budget holes (the Chicago Skyway and the city’s parking meters were both leased out to private companies, to name a couple examples). Chicago’s economic state is not getting any better, but rather than looking for creative, long-term solutions, the city is continuing with their short-sighted strategy of looking for publicly owned resources to sell off to the highest bidder. The next thing handed over to a for-profit corporation may be a resource so basic that no one can live without it – our public water system. Continue reading Don’t Privatize Our Water
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