Just after eight years in which unconstitutional means to un-American ends were peddled as consummate patriotism, we’re in a period in which criminal greed is ferociously defended and hair of the rabid dog that bit our economy is touted as the best cure for what ails us.
Posts Tagged ‘corporate greed’
Afghans in for wealth and all that goes with it
If Afghans think they’ve been through one rough patch after another, what with having been invaded and occupied by Russians, ruled by the Taliban, then invaded and occupied by Americans, they haven’t seen anything yet. That’s because news is breaking about colossal finds of mineral wealth in Afghanistan — enough to transform the country from [...]
Forces of greed have had it
with Obama and the Democrats
Paul Krugman’s latest column provides excellent insight into the real power behind the anger directed at President Obama and Democratic reform efforts in areas such as health care and the financial industry. And no, it’s not about snarling oafs holding up racist placards and shrill, dingbat dames in hats festooned with teabags. If you really [...]
U.S. needs three-strikes law
for habitual corporate offenders
From the late 1970′s through the ’90′s, numerous states passed three-strikes and habitual-criminal laws as a means of protecting the public from the “two-inch-thick police record” set. Those laws targeted both violent offenders and lesser criminals for whom repeated short-time jail and prison sentences provided no deterrence against committing future crimes – incorrigibles with no [...]
Oil drilling boosters carry on
even as spill fouls Gulf waters
Just because the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill is leaking 5,000 barrels gallons of oil a day — five times early estimates — and is now at the mouth of the Mississippi River, the forces of drill, baby, drill carry on as if it’s no big deal. Think Progress notes Newt Gingrich’s American Solutions [...]
WellPoint a deadly menace
to customers with breast cancer
No one’s survival should be pitted against the corporate profit imperative or sacrificed to satisfy the personal ambition and greed of business executives.
Insurer’s empty pledge adds to case
for a universal single-payer system
Aconspicuously missing argument in the debate about health care reform is that health insurers are doing a good job of operating in the public interest, and a well-done Los Angeles Times story provides evidence why no one is making that case. The story concerns Wellpoint, the nation’s No. 2 health insurer, No. 32 in the [...]
Posts show seamy side of health insurers
This is to call your attention to a fine series of posts showing the dark, greed-driven and deadly dangerous side of the health insurance industry. At her blog, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Bee has created a veritable rogue’s gallery of major health insurers and their CEO’s You’ll gain insight, for example, into what makes Ronald A. [...]
Unhelpful health insurance co.’s
face prospect of sizable fees
To put it in simplest terms, the health insurance industry has been the proverbial rat in the wood pile. What’s more, the insurers appear determined to continue playing that greedy, selfish, villainous role.
