Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Obama vs. 'Big Business': There's an Alternative

What an oracle of the obvious. Giant corporations are essentially legalized criminal organizations. They survive an prosper not by giving value to the consumer but by exploiting their workers and avoiding regulation of their worst actions. Now that Americans actually understand how morally bankrupt these companies are, this guy suggests we negotiate terms with them so we can regain jobs that have been lost because Barack Obama, who has actually been their enabler, has been hostile to them. Meanwhile we progressives need to admit that these greedy, slimy, wealth obsessed plunderers should get tax breaks and regulatory absolution so they can save the economy they just ruined. At my age the calisthenics needed to adjust to such specious, self-interested logic are just not going to happen. I continue to be amazed by the sheer shameless audacity of the business community that keeps claiming that what they just did to our economy wasn't their fault. But then again this is America where no fact goes contorted.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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