The Gulf, BP, and Capitalism

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I gleaned this response from this artice:

BP's Scheme to Swindle the "Small People"

Here it is:

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.
--- John Maynard Keynes

It is impossible to be too cynical about the behavior of capitalists. There is no way to exaggerate the infinite. In this case, the greed of capitalists is what we're talking about; it is infinite. they can never be satisfied. They always want more and they always want someone else to pay their costs. In the case of the the Deepwater Horizon death gusher they want real people to pay the costs of blowout prevention by paying for the costs the cleanup and eating the costs of paying for the damages caused by skimping on drilling safety.

This is a liability we incur by living under a government that is bought and bribed by corporations. Real people are suffering the consequences of believing the bilge of Chicago-school economics and the lies and double-talk of bribed and bought politicians, Republicans and Democrats alike.

As for Henric Svanberg, he's a combination of a lying, double-talking politician and a sociopathic capitalist. Public statements that "we care about the small people" are just lies, uttered as a smoke-screen to obscure the truth, that he and his corporation care only for their profits, and the injury they cause to people, thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of human beings, is utterly irrelevant to them. These guys are in fact Keynes's "nastiest of men."

http://www.truth-out.org/bps-scheme-swindle-small-people61509#comment-206817

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Interesting article