The suddenly spotlighted “Stand Your Ground” laws that are sprouting up all over America, along with efforts to eliminate state government unions, movement toward private prisons such as CCA, attacks on Planned Parenthood and even questions about contraception all indicate some central direction behind these powerful efforts to control government in the United States. The question remained, who is behind all this? Now finally comes a finger pointing. Whose finger? Paul Krugman’s. He doesn’t mention the Koch brothers, but they appear to be the forces behind the cover of ALEC, which Krugman is beginning to remove. The finger points to the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which now numbers at least 2,400 state legislators as members across the United States. ALEC has been associated with attempts to privatize functions normally performed by government. ALEC wants to turn those operations into profit-making work. Theoretically, taxes will go down but people will pay more for services previously provided by government employees.
http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/03/11356/arizona’s-alec-leader-wants-your-boss-make-decisions-about-your-contraception-cov
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