Wow!

[kentuck]

I am seldom home at this time but I got to see the last comments of Chris Mathews and the first of The Big Ed Show with guest Bernie Sanders. That got down to the nitty gritty.

Chris Mathews was especially complimentary of the circumstances the President encountered when he took office and the job he did upon entering the office. He took the advice of the most noted economists in the world in saving the economic system. And that the stimulus was a needed remedy and no one in the Republican Party offered any solutions. The President could have made a political ad from Mathews's comments.

Then Bernie Sanders pointed out to Big Ed that corporations felt no patriotic duty to create jobs. They would move to China tomorrow if they felt they could make more profits, he said. Then he read a comment by the head of the Chamber of Commerce from several years ago urging, urging American companies to move jobs abroad.

[HughMoran]

1. I must have turned the TV on at the same time.

It was a good time to tune it in too - lot's of hard hitting commentary from Tweety, then Bernie and then Sestak was on throwing the haymakers too :thumbsup:

[Caliman73]

2. The saddest thing is that it is pretty accurate.

Not all corporations are bad. I work for a private nonprofit corporation that works to develop and monitor services for intellectually disabled individuals. For profit corporations however, are at best amoral. They are obligated to ensure profit for their shareholders whether that means providing excellent customer service or allowing toxic waste to be dumped into the water supply. It is cost benefit analysis that runs corporations. There has been much talk about corporate citizenship, but it is usually lip service or in the context of image management for the sake of profit. Again, I am sure that there are corporations and individuals within corporations that are wonderful and ethical, the problem is that when profits are a legal obligation, it sets up a dynamic in which unethical behavior is at best turned a blind eye towards, and at worst encouraged.

I have been studying towards my master's degree in Public Administration for a few months and the classes I have taken in business and HR have been interesting, enlightening, and depressing

[tavalon]

3. Wow, I bet parts of it have been depressing.