[ExI] U.S. deeply imperiled due to it's massive debt

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 00:49:38 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM, police dept <policedepts at gmail.com> wrote:

> But as for keeping corporate America in check, it depends. Attempting to
> bankrupt tobacco corporations wasn't a bad idea, IMO, it put pressure on
> tobacco companies to be a bit more responsible. This is merely to use
> tobacco corporations as an example: why ought I care if lawsuits were
> brought against Big Tobacco? class action lawsuits aren't always misguided,
> are they?

### I think it was a very bad idea. Whenever you try to fight a lesser
evil (a few lying execs) by using a greater evil (an army of lying
politicians), you are guaranteed to be worse off in the long run.

Rafal




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