Re: Only in US
"What's next? Local council can't provide water and sanitation?"
You mean like in the UK where these serices have been sold off for 20 years, to cmpanies that generate profits for shareholders rather than replace old leaking water mains?
See also : East Coast mainline railway, taken back into public ownership after company running it bailed out, now embarassingly profitable so of course has to be re-privatised as soon as possible as it offers proof that public ownership is sometimes better than monopolistic "free market" privatisatiun when it comes to essential public services.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
