A gang of Wall Street hedge funds is jousting to own PG&E, leaving Californians with nothing but bad choices.
Then there’s Facebook, a Silicon Valley behemoth whose insensitivity to its responsibilities to its users and society at large has become a byword. Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren , a candidate for president, labeled Facebook aGiven Facebook’s refusal to vet political ads for manifest untruths, not to mention its long history of breaches of users’ privacy, who could argue her point?
Facebook changed their ads policy to allow politicians to run ads with known lies—explicitly turning the platform into a disinformation-for-profit machine. This week, we decided to see just how far it goes.These cases point to our confusion over the proper role of government and private enterprise in our economy. Simply put, private enterprise invariably pursues its self-interest. There’s nothing wrong with that, within limits.
That’s why we have the Public Utilities Commissions and the Federal Communications Commission, not that they always function ideally .
This is not an either or situation. Both are incompetent.
the sidewalks, streets, schools, homeless people everywhere, overflowing trash cans, empty businesses.......
This case should be studies for what it is. The government backed out of deals with the utilities companies and are partially to blame for the wishwashy behavior and bills forced upon these utilities.
The dance and the dancer ...?
government might perhaps pay attention
Who accepted their lobbying?
modalthetortois Our firefighters and first responders are amazing. Evacuation systems are stellar. PG & E is making everything worse.
It stands to reason that private companies and public institutions are equally likely to be run well or run poorly since both are manned by human beings.
Big gov and big companies have the same problem - lack of accountability.
You fucking dolts
I beg to differ. PG&E may be private but must also follow state and government rules and regulations regarding security and tons of other things. The state is responsible for letting them run free.
Forest mismanagement & govt INTERFERENCE w/private enterprise has brought this on. Fake eco-science causes overgrowth & neglect of firebreaks, roads, etc. Govt forced PG&E 2invest in costly &less efficient means of generating power, while causing maintenance & upgrade deference.
Washington monthly had a cover story on the false trashing of government agencies and their work note also:
😂 teeing it up for CA to buy PG&E.....
Duh!! Stop voting Democrat StopVotingDemocrat
This is totally dumb
covering for those pesky Democrats once again!
Except in CA.
Half-right, logging companies started the forests, but thanks to environmentalists they stopped logging and the forests exploded to an unsustainable state for the environment.
Government is in Privates DEEP POCKETS!!!!! THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT.
'California fires show it's private enterprise, not government, that can't get things right' … just like 'the fires are due to Climate Change,' this is a cop out … PGE & other utilities are regulated by government to safely serve the public … Utilities can be MANDATED to act
Didn’t they give thousand to campaigns , sorry not buying it
Ahem ... 1996 California energy deregulation.
Spoken like a true Republican. When will you be advocating for the privatization of Social Security?
Chernobyl
This is the worst thing ever tweeted.
Visit your local VA med center of Bureau of Motor Vehicles.
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