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Bush’s privatization plan is a new spoils system for corporations and the GOP

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION’S plan to privatize half of the federal work force is an attack on the very essence of the federal government: It replaces the notion of public service for the common good with the profit motive. By turning over 850,000 civil-service jobs to private contractors, the Bush initiative — which requires no congressional approval — will destroy the firewall protecting federal jobs from political influence, taking the U.S. government back to the 19th century and the everything-for-sale days of, for example, the administration of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Free Web Research Link Closed Under Pressure From Pay Sites

The Energy Department has shut down a popular Internet site that catalogued government and academic science research, in response to corporate complaints that it competed with similar commercial services.
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