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1987 – 1988, President Reagan signed Executive Order 12607 creating the President’s Commission on Privatization.  The focal point of the executive order was “private sector action to address public problems”[1].   The Commission published a 287-page report of a plan to privatize government[2].  From September 1987 to March 1988 roughly six months to produce a plan to dissolve government – replacing it corporate rule behind a façade of “public-private partnerships”.
                                                              


 

[1] The American Presidency Project, Ronald Reagan, September 2, 1987, Executive Order 12607, President’s Commission on Privatization, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=34751#axzz1yXsZ1FxN

[2] USAID – government website, Report of the President’s Commission on Privatization, David F. Linowes, Chairman, PRIVATIZATION:  Toward More Effective Government, http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNABB472.pdf