Streamlining Governments and Businesses: Cost and Benefit Studies against People's Lives

Streamlining Governments and Businesses:
Cost and Benefit Studies against People's Lives

Nipawin - Saturday, March 9, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis

detrimental
effects of
privatization
The Canadian Federation of Taxpayers (CFT) is doing an excellent work in identifying the billions of dollars of corporate welfare paid by our government, however I have the suspicion that this organization is not able to understand the detrimental effect of privatization of the public services and the undemocratic collusion of governments and business.

we require
redundancy
The major problem is not the duplication of bureaucratic, the major problem is the perceived claim of the streamlining efficiencies brought by corporations. We must all understand that when governmental friendly corporations streamline efficiently public operations, and make money in the process, we lose perception of the overall interrelationships of the needed public services. We require a degree of redundancy in public service, and I must say that we require a degree of redundancy in private businesses as well; and in this respect we noticed a few years ago how former Premier Roy Romanow streamlined (downsized) the province of Saskatchewan to greatness as social activist Michael Moore was expressing the indignity of economic downsizing with his book "Downsize this!"

streamlining
means
downsizing
Corporations and fortunate sons have taken over government, and they are now streamlining (downsizing) the economy to make it more efficient: that is we are streamlining governments and making these governments the vassals of corporations, we are streamlining the number of corporations and make these corporations mega-transnational corporations. All of these efficiencies are achieved by a cost and benefit analysis funded, directed and manipulated by the fortunate sons.

cost
benefit
analysis
The Bush administration made a cost and benefit analysis for the ratification of the Kyoto's treaty and decided not to ratify it because it is too expensive; yet we have evidence that pollution from coal-fired smokestacks is directly responsible for thousands of premature deaths, thousands of incidents of chronic bronchitis, thousands of hospital emergencies. Arthur D. Little International made a cost and benefit analysis on the effect of smoking in the Czech Republic and concluded that this government had a net gain of $147.1 million from smoking. The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association has made a cost and benefit analysis of the Kyoto's treaty and has concluded that the ratification of this treaty would cost Canada $40-billion and 450,000 manufacturing sector jobs over eight years.

need to
establish
priorities
So the moral of this story is that most of the present economic directions for streamlining government and for streamlining business are based on the deceptive conclusions of the static cost and benefit studies sponsored by corporations and fortunate sons. Studies based on static cost and benefit analysis are not capable of grasping the intangible values of the lives of people, individual creativity, and societal innovation. Let us be real, let us talk about people before we talk about business, let us talk about relationships before we talk about the market, let us talk how to grow before we talk how to make money, let us talk about peace before we talk about war; and let us talk about ecological economics before we talk about static cost and benefit analysis.

References:

Pertinent articles in Ensign

EPA regulator's resignation letter Eric V. Schaeffer, Director Office of Regulatory Enforcement, March 3, 2002 http://www.msnbc.com/news/717482.asp?cp1=1

Philip Morris Funded Study of Smoking in the Czech Republic $1,227. That's how much a study sponsored by Philip Morris said the Czech Republic saves on health care, pensions and housing every time a smoker dies. http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Philip-Morris-Czech-Study.htm

Kyoto plan is 'foolish': Chamber Alan Toulin in Ottawa and Robert Benzie in Toronto National Post, March 4, 2002 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020304/228018.html



Streamlining Governments and Businesses: Cost and Benefit Studies against People's Lives

Nipawin - Saturday, March 9, 2002 - by: Mario deSantis

detrimental effects of privatization	The Canadian Federation of Taxpayers (CFT) is doing an excellent work in identifying the billions of dollars of corporate welfare paid by our government, however I have the suspicion that this organization is not able to understand the detrimental effect of privatization of the public services and the undemocratic collusion of governments and business.

we require redundancy	The major problem is not the duplication of bureaucratic, the major problem is the perceived claim of the streamlining efficiencies brought by corporations. We must all understand that when governmental friendly corporations streamline efficiently public operations, and make money in the process, we lose perception of the overall interrelationships of the needed public services. We require a degree of redundancy in public service, and I must say that we require a degree of redundancy in private businesses as well; and in this respect we noticed a few years ago how former Premier Roy Romanow streamlined (downsized) the province of Saskatchewan to greatness as social activist Michael Moore was expressing the indignity of economic downsizing with his book "Downsize this!"

streamlining means downsizing	Corporations and fortunate sons have taken over government, and they are now streamlining (downsizing) the economy to make it more efficient: that is we are streamlining governments and making these governments the vassals of corporations, we are streamlining the number of corporations and make these corporations mega-transnational corporations. All of these efficiencies are achieved by a cost and benefit analysis funded, directed and manipulated by the fortunate sons.

cost benefit analysis	The Bush administration made a cost and benefit analysis for the ratification of the Kyoto's treaty and decided not to ratify it because it is too expensive; yet we have evidence that pollution from coal-fired smokestacks is directly responsible for thousands of premature deaths, thousands of incidents of chronic bronchitis, thousands of hospital emergencies. Arthur D. Little International made a cost and benefit analysis on the effect of smoking in the Czech Republic and concluded that this government had a net gain of $147.1 million from smoking. The Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association has made a cost and benefit analysis of the Kyoto's treaty and has concluded that the ratification of this treaty would cost Canada $40-billion and 450,000 manufacturing sector jobs over eight years.

need to establish priorities	So the moral of this story is that most of the present economic directions for streamlining government and for streamlining business are based on the deceptive conclusions of the static cost and benefit studies sponsored by corporations and fortunate sons. Studies based on static cost and benefit analysis are not capable of grasping the intangible values of the lives of people, individual creativity, and societal innovation. Let us be real, let us talk about people before we talk about business, let us talk about relationships before we talk about the market, let us talk how to grow before we talk how to make money, let us talk about peace before we talk about war; and let us talk about ecological economics before we talk about static cost and benefit analysis.

References:
	Pertinent articles in Ensign

	EPA regulator's resignation letter Eric V. Schaeffer, Director Office of Regulatory Enforcement, March 3, 2002 http://www.msnbc.com/news/717482.asp?cp1=1

	Philip Morris Funded Study of Smoking in the Czech Republic $1,227. That's how much a study sponsored by Philip Morris said the Czech Republic saves on health care, pensions and housing every time a smoker dies. http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Philip-Morris-Czech-Study.htm

	Kyoto plan is 'foolish': Chamber Alan Toulin in Ottawa and Robert Benzie in Toronto National Post, March 4, 2002 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20020304/228018.html