The Nation's Rigged Corporate Capitalism Syndicate

[Joanne98]

Over the past couple weeks, I have been on the road visiting Washington, DC, as the TeaParty was gathering, and to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where one would think that all is well in the worldwide economy.

Toronto’s downtown, as well as in the suburbs, development is booming. In center city, the place is filled with commercial development. Condos and hotels are going up everywhere. It is amazing! The streets are filled with people walking and restaurants are busy in spite of the costs. It is my guess that even in Toronto, there are the haves and have mores. In center city, condo prices are unbelievable. $3 million might be a starting figure placed on units in these luxurious buildings.

Once arriving back home, we have now witnessed a massive oil spill filling the Gulf of Mexico outside Louisiana contaminating the fish supply, polluting the waters and endangering the oyster beds in the wetlands, and marshes where sea water is filtered by fresh river water. BP is just another elite corporate predator. It appears that negligence may likely be the cause of the explosion as a result of Halliburton’s shoddy workmanship in their subcontracted cement work.

Halliburton, BP, Goldman Sachs, Massey Energy, Exxon, Lehman Brothers, and the list can go on and on are the nation’s elite corporate predators. They, and others, are this nation’s oligarchs buying influence, laws, rules, and Congresspersons, as well as air time over the public airwaves spewing their propagandistic messages to gullible viewers for the sole purpose of meeting their profit agenda, in order for those unearned giant bonuses to paid out to their Corporobots. None of these elite corporate predators care about anything other than profits and personal financial enrichment. Profits must be made at the expense of the nation’s national security, the environment, families, and the lives of workers, as well as the health of the economy. There is nothing honorable, or respectful among these dangerous CEOs who are engaged in what Stacy Herbert, the analyst on the (Max) Keiser Report, calls Rigged Corporate Capitalism.

Let’s review some of this nation’s disasters, minus 9-11, caused by the Rigged Predatory Capitalist Elite.

Citgo refinery oil spill, July 2006, Louisiana.

PEPCO Chalk Point generating station in Maryland, April, 2000, caused by a ruptured pipeline.

North Cape Oil Spill, January 1996, grounded barge in southern Rhode Island spilled 828,000 gallons of oil.

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http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com/2010/05/nations-rigged-corporate-capitalism.html

[jotsy]

1. What comes to mind is how long it took to actually settle the Valdez matter.

Which was only in the last couple of years and the families who are that far removed from their livelihoods were awarded something like 30 to 50 grand. The devastation this will continue to cause is a collective crime. The corporate mantra of profit being paramount must be brought to bear the monetary consequence of what their greed reaps. BP, Halliburton, and who ever else is in on this little venture need to be hauled into what ever international authority has jurisdiction and the entirety of their assets seized until immediate costs can at least be assessed.

k and r

[indepat]

2. What do you get when your Congress is beholden to corporate monied interests rather than acting in

the interest of the people, when the government is of, by, and for the corporations rather than of, by, and for the people? "Rigged Corporate Capitalism," that's what you have and get, and the proof is disasters begetting disasters, one after the other. :P