They've taken control away from the oversight rules that are supposed to protect the workers in the privatized companies (not that they did a great job during Enron, but all the more reason to think that absolute power corrupts absolutely for the stockholders). And the country right now is financially overextended, while dismantling what was called "the social safety net" and is now sneered at as "entitlement programs."
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Date: 2007-08-14 10:29 pm (UTC)They've taken control away from the oversight rules that are supposed to protect the workers in the privatized companies (not that they did a great job during Enron, but all the more reason to think that absolute power corrupts absolutely for the stockholders). And the country right now is financially overextended, while dismantling what was called "the social safety net" and is now sneered at as "entitlement programs."
That in particular would make me twitch, yes.