The machine gun of capitalism

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The machine gun of capitalism

Dead soldiers, peak oil and mind-boggling profits; praise Jesus, the machine's still working

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

06/02/08 "SFGate" -- - Surprisingly moving Barack Obama music videos? The potential end of the writer's strike? Cute young deer being saved by helicopters? No no no no no. Here are your most deeply inspiring news stories of the month:

A flurry of pink slips fluttered over the job sector as corporate payrolls were sliced like sour pie. Foreclosures are skyrocketing and new home sales across the nation are plummeting faster than Britney Spears' serotonin levels. A nasty recession is either creeping or flooding in, depending on your perspective and how recently you purchased your home and/or tried to dump your Google stock.

Meanwhile, the largest corporation in the world, the one which has consistently raked in the largest and most appalling profits of any organization on Earth, a company so powerful and deeply influential to the machinations of our own nation, our government, the globe, so ingrained and unstoppable that no president, no administration, no nuclear warhead to its CEO's home planet stands a chance of slowing it down or altering its behavior in any significant way because there is simply far, far too much money involved in its nefarious endeavors, has recently posted the largest profit of any company in American history.

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1. Sums it up nicely..

A little short on what to do.

I'd guess cutting spending and seeing how low this economy hits will be part of it. Maybe with a Democrat in the Whitehouse, we might start talking about how we got here and what could be done differently.