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<p>[quote user="BaltACD"]<font color="#0000ff">When Pigs, without electronic special effects, fly!</font>[/quote]</p><p>Keep looking up! </p><p>In 1994 the railways, trams, bus operations, electric and gas utilities, amongst others, in Victoria, Australia were owned by the state government. By 2004 all of them had been privatized. Because of the privatization movement in Victoria, I had an opportunity to move to Melbourne in 1999, which is the capital city of Victoria, where I lived for nearly five years. My company had bought one of the electric distribution companies in Victoria. </p><p>Equally impressive, at the federal level, numerous government owned or controlled entities were privatized. Telecommunications was opened to private investors; the national railway was opened to private operators (the government still owns the tracks); and nearly half of the country's national airline was sold to private investors.</p><p>Will passenger rail in the U.S. be privatized? The probability is low. But had you asked a Victorian before 1994, except for those working behind the scenes to make it happen, if their major transport modes and utilities would be privatized, they too would have suggested keeping a sharp lookout for flying pigs. </p><p> </p>
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