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Benzinha, I am blogging from a safe and undisclosed location....
The government likes things tidy, and who slides up to mop their chin but familiar faces?
I think Katray (hi Katray!) has a point, obliquely. People lkke to do business with friends; next best is to do business with people you control. Or maybe the other way around. At any rate, I think in many cases big business has oozed over into government as an expediant to blind gowth, not any machiavellian scheme (which they would botch anyway).
With big media the only way to win elections, big money will out, and there is no geting around that. "Shigata ganai", as they say in Japan; or, as we say, "What can't be cured must be endured". The best we can hope for is a dynamic balance of influence between one power block and another.
posted by
majroj
on September 11, 2005 at 9:08 AM
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katray, TOMORROW, we will all be a little angrier and more frustrated than
today. Then, we'll do nothing about it.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 2:07 AM
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katray, let them catch their own fish in Lake Ponchartrain, that totally
polluted food source, now. Cake is too expensive, no? Life on this planet puzzles me more daily, the people's complacency, I mean.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 2:06 AM
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LifeByLisa, NOT a few bucks, but billions of them.....
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 2:03 AM
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maj, in a way, we have nationalized them. They are the war provider, the
fixers of the wars' messes and the only ones big enough to do monumental things. However, they have consumers in mind and not people and taxpayers and po' folks.
You did say that they are the best equipped to do all of this, but that is because they hogged it all in VietNam and ever since then and no one can catch up with them EVER at this rate.
Castro and Chavez would love your suggestions and the World Bank may get a hit out on you for having made them here. Me? I hope that they go bankrupt somehow. They almost fell apart in England and with their losses, they tore into their own people and lost some good heads in the process. They may yet cut their own throats. I shall light a candle for that.
Let tons of southern small companies do the rebuilding in their own southern way........mess or not, it would be fairer to those who suffer, working for themselves, keeping the profits in their own area, buying from their own area's businesses and hiring their own people, building in the style that they like.
posted by
benzinha
on September 11, 2005 at 2:02 AM
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Yep, not surprising
We are living under Corporatism, a close cousin and short leap to fascism, in my humble opinion. I just blogged about a well connected company that got a contract to plan for New Orlean's imminent disaster - 500 million of taxpayer money for zilch. Halliburton is King of the junta, no doubt. Also, did you read about Bush destroying a law that guaranteed a livable wage for workers involved in federal contract work? In Louisiana, that was $9 per hour for construction jobs. Guess it'll be minimum wage now...or not. Let 'em eat cake eh?
Thanks for the great post Benz., what will happen tomorrow??
posted by
Katray2
on September 10, 2005 at 10:35 PM
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So it's Business as usual...
How can these idiots keep doing this, and why are there still faithful followers? I don't get it. He and Dick would sell out America for a few bucks...Disgusting.
posted by
LifeByLisa
on September 10, 2005 at 10:19 PM
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I say nationalize Haliburton.
And Boeing. And Microsoft.
ANd force them to outsource to little companies.
I'm becoming a Bolshie!
posted by
majroj
on September 10, 2005 at 9:33 PM
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