Americans worship God on the Sabbath and the rich every other day.
The President of the Steelworkers Union, Leo W. Gerard, has been publishing diaries here about once a week, but most have scrolled by with only a few of us reading them. Please don't recommend my diary. Instead, please follow this link and read and recommend Mr. Gerard's diary:
Greed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards
I think you'll agree with me that it belongs on the Rec list. A little more, after the fold.
CEOs commonly make incongruous assertions to protect profits after corporate-caused disasters. They’re driven by the same factor that is fundamental to the catastrophes – greed. Nothing wrong with that, right? Not in a society that has converted greed from a vice to a virtue. Still, American church-goers might recall that greed is one of the seven deadly sins. When it afflicts CEOs, it’s deadly to workers.
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Americans worship God on the Sabbath and the rich every other day. Billionaire Warren Buffett’s word is investment gospel. Americans gave Wall Street banksters hundreds of billions in bailout money -- protecting their multi-million dollar bonuses. But in the midst of the Great Recession caused by Wall Street recklessness, America has repeatedly delayed renewal of unemployment benefits and now is terminating federal health insurance support for the furloughed middle class.
Middle class workers are the ones who die in coal mines and on oil rigs.
Afterwards, CEOs say anything to save the bottom line – the one that will determine their bonuses.
Greed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards
Please follow this link and read and recommend Mr. Gerard's diary:
Greed Explains the Disasters and the Lying Afterwards
This is telling truth to power. Your life ain't worth shit if a profit can be made by cutting corners. And it will not change unless we do something about it.