CotD: American Chernobyl edition
on June 24th, 2010
Jim Henley on the wider implications of the BP oil spill:
There can’t be three foreigners not in the employ of Rupert Murdoch who, today, can read about the “American model of democratic capitalism” without sniggering. This is a country whose elites can cry real tears about the pensions of Britons while regarding the pensions of American autoworkers as the next thing to a crime. While there is a real principle at stake in the difference, it’s not one you’re supposed to voice: Concern for British pensions is a way to keep powerful and connected people unaccountable for their actions; Auto worker pensions can only cost such people money.
You would’ve thought though that Katrina would’ve done this already.
Categories: Comment of the Day, Life under Capitalism
We never learn. If we did, we’d forget it in five mins. anyway.