[lbo-talk] Wal-Mart at Forefront of Hurricane Relief

Liza Featherstone lfeather at panix.com
Wed Sep 7 16:06:46 PDT 2005


Well, I was planning to write a little item on this very thing next week. But it's true, I'm not "the media," much as I'd like to be.

Liza

on 9/7/05 6:48 PM, John Lacny at jlacny at earthlink.net wrote:


> Joanna writes:
>
>> The expense is a drop in the bucket for them and the advertising
>> is priceless. They're being very smart.
>
> It goes even deeper than that. The cost of relief is far less than the tax
> breaks that these fuckers have received all around the country, not to
> mention the indirect subsidies they receive as a result of the fact that
> they pay their workers so poorly that they all qualify for Medicaid. They're
> the country's #1 tax-dodger and cost-shifter and therefore bear the largest
> single share of the corporate blame for the chronic underfunding of public
> services in this country that made this disaster as bad as it was.
>
> But despite the US media's sudden -- and all-too-brief -- discovery of a
> critical spirit, this is one set of questions that they will never ask.
> Ever.
>
>
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