I just finished reading Booman’s excellent post about how the spin on the Dubai thing is to make it a racist issue. We don’t like Arabs, but the Brit’s were okay. Sadly, this defense is echoed on Kos in this diary.
IT’S THE PRIVATIZATION, STUPID.
That has to be our mantra. I mean seriously. How much of America should be sold to private corporations? Why not just sell the Statue of Liberty back to the French? They seem to have a bit more respect for the concept than we do these days.
The reason there was no outrage over the British ownership of the ports is that the majority of Americans didn’t know. Yeah, New York and New Jersey blew the whistle when the control was to pass to the Arabs, but I hope and pray that a lot of my fellow citizens were just as upset to find that our border security (ports are huge holes in our borders as it is) had been outsourced at all!
This while people in New Orleand and along the Gulf have no jobs. Why can’t we hire our own to guard our borders? I mean, what will we outsource next? I speculated about that, I HOPE in jest, over at Kos earlier.
So the next time someone in the media starts whining about the poor Arabs, remind them this isn’t abuot that.
IT’S THE PRIVATIZATION, STUPID.