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Re:Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed by connoredel on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:46PM (#12221366)
Don't know why you're being downvoted. You astutely point out that just as defunding can cause a move toward privatization (or the belief that only private enterprise can solve a given problem), so too can overregulation lead toward nationalization (or even at state/local levels, the belief that only government can solve it).
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Re:Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed by eagsalazar2 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @06:36PM (#12222057)
Because some people feel that businesses being strangled by regulation is a favorite straw man those in favor of deregulation trot out to protect their interests. The original scenario, at least in the opinions of some people, is a nice summary of the abuses of privatization while the down voted scenario is a right wing bogeyman meant to scare the ignorant into voting against their own interests. (In some people's opinion)
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Re:Florida cut $100M from its mental hospitals – chaos followed by pessimizer on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @08:05PM (#12222452)
I won't downvote it if anyone can show an example of it actually ever happening.
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