A New Look at the Left Wing

Texas started using a private company in 2005 to screen medical and food assistance applications. By 2010, there were 56,000 unresolved food stamp applications, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.

In addition, 37 percent of all applicants — and more than 50 percent of applicants in the greater Dallas and Houston areas — were not told whether they qualified for benefits within 30 days of filing, as federal law requires, according to the newspaper. And applications from 13 percent of the truly destitute — people defined by the newspaper as virtually out of cash and unable to afford groceries — weren’t processed in the seven days required by federal law, it reported.

I think it’s time we started calling privatization by another, more accurate name: corruption. Sending vital services out to a for-profit company is nothing but a chance for it to skim money off the top.

(Source: ziatroyano)