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<blockquote data-quote="Eutychus" data-source="post: 18127" data-attributes="member: 287"><p><strong>Re: Fear</strong></p><p></p><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"StarLord\")</div></p><p></p><p>He doesn't scare me so much as make me angry that he's doing everything to make life wonderful for business and doing everything he can to alienate the folks who elected him. As I have said before, no one who wants the job of president should be allowed to have it. My current beef is tort reform. He wants to do away with frivolous lawsuits to the benefit of business, to get the economy going again. I'm sorry, but W.R. Grace and friends knew for 100 years what asbestos does to the lungs and they never told a soul. And then they continued to sell a product that they knew killed people. They funded research in the 1930s to discover just how dangerous the stuff was and when they learned, the information disappeared into the vaults for 35 more years. Then, when info surfaced that they knew all along just how deadly the stuff is, when it became apparent just how big the liability was going to be, they learned that they could continue to sell it and hide from financial, moral, and corporate responsibility by declaring bankruptcy. These folks are in a mess of their own making, and the only sort of justice available for folks like my mom who died because she did her father's work laundry fifty years ago and inhaled the asbestos on his clothes is via the courts. To deny victims of corporate malfeasance of such epic proportions a right to exact their own ounce of flesh is a major insult to an already painful injury.</p><p></p><p>I'll get off my high horse now, but I resent someone calling an attempt to hold responsible the people who manufactured the thing that caused my mom's death, my current respiratory troubles, and the future health problems of anyone who breathed in Manhattan in the weeks following 9/11 frivolous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eutychus, post: 18127, member: 287"] [b]Re: Fear[/b] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(\"StarLord\")</div> He doesn't scare me so much as make me angry that he's doing everything to make life wonderful for business and doing everything he can to alienate the folks who elected him. As I have said before, no one who wants the job of president should be allowed to have it. My current beef is tort reform. He wants to do away with frivolous lawsuits to the benefit of business, to get the economy going again. I'm sorry, but W.R. Grace and friends knew for 100 years what asbestos does to the lungs and they never told a soul. And then they continued to sell a product that they knew killed people. They funded research in the 1930s to discover just how dangerous the stuff was and when they learned, the information disappeared into the vaults for 35 more years. Then, when info surfaced that they knew all along just how deadly the stuff is, when it became apparent just how big the liability was going to be, they learned that they could continue to sell it and hide from financial, moral, and corporate responsibility by declaring bankruptcy. These folks are in a mess of their own making, and the only sort of justice available for folks like my mom who died because she did her father's work laundry fifty years ago and inhaled the asbestos on his clothes is via the courts. To deny victims of corporate malfeasance of such epic proportions a right to exact their own ounce of flesh is a major insult to an already painful injury. I'll get off my high horse now, but I resent someone calling an attempt to hold responsible the people who manufactured the thing that caused my mom's death, my current respiratory troubles, and the future health problems of anyone who breathed in Manhattan in the weeks following 9/11 frivolous. [/QUOTE]
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