Mammon category archive
How Far Will Wells-Fargo? 0
Pretty damned far, and all they get is a slap on the wrist. In the video, Mike points out:
In corporate America, they don’t look like criminals because they’re all dressed up. They got gold chains, they got Rolex watches, they came up in a Jaguar, so they don’t look like criminals, and this is how we treat them, because they don’t look like criminals.
The Privatization Scam 0
David and a caller discuss Republican efforts to destroy public education. (Then, in a second call, he discusses the role of China on the world stage.)
Trump and Labor: Solidarity Not Ever 0
Sam discusses Trump’s pseudo pro-labor performance art act and the news media’s failure to dissect the dissimulation.
The Wedding Industrial Complex 0
I also had two weddings, but they were years apart and to different persons.
The Medicine Sham in This New Gilded Age 0
Thom takes a look at how truly inefficient and ineffective America’s health care system industry oligarchy actually is.
The (Corporate) Welfare State 0
At AL.com, John Archibald runs the numbers and concludes that Alabama is happy to pay welfare to rich corporations, but not to poor individuals.
I suspect you can find similar numbers for other states.
Afterthought:
Archibald doesn’t address this in his column, but it occurs to me that persons who can’t afford, say, for example, day care for their children and therefore have trouble finding jobs likely also cannot afford campaign contributions.
This New Gilded Age 0
Methinks Michael in Norfolk has figured it out. Here’s a bit of his post:
All That Is Old Is New Again 0
Emma talks with Kim Kelly about the resurgence of black lung disease. A quotation from Kim Kelly:
… coal bosses would rather make money than follow regulations and Republican politicians would rather cut regulations than help the coal miners they like to drag out for photo ops.
Read Kim Kelly’s article.