interest in place of public duty, converting its pecuniary dispensations into bounties
to favorites, or bribes to opponents, accommodating its measures to the avidity of
a part of the nation instead of the benefit of the whole in a word, enlisting an army
of interested partizans, whose tongues, whose pens, whose intrigues, and whose
active combinations, by supplying the terror of the sword, may support a real
domination of the few, under an apparent liberty of the many. Such a government,
wherever to be found, is an imposter." -- James Madison (National Gazette,
February 20, 1792)
There are 20,000 "private security contractors" in Iraq: What do you call the people
who fill the gaps arising when the desire of politicians to make war often exceeds
citizens' desire to be sent to war?
We speak with Si Kahn and Elizabeth Minnich, authors of the new book, "The Fox
In The Henhouse: How Privatization Threatens Democracy." In the book the
authors expose the damage privatization has done in several areas of society
including, schools, prisons and the military.
Private companies are going after a bigger share of the billions spent on education.
Find out how educators and kids are paying the price.
