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12. Very astute. Workers are just numbers on their profit and loss sheet; discarded when unprofitable.

This is actually what Obama was getting at, I think, when he wanted a national dialog on Bain and the business model. That was after that mayor said Bain was good for America. I was taught that a budget set by government is not just a list of priorities, but a moral document.

Because if there is no moral basis for government, why bother to have one?

There is no morality in the bottom line thinking of corporatists, unless enriching the CEOs is the ultimate in their way of thinking, and all those inconvenient humans at the other end of the spectrum are just horses destined for the glue factory, and negligible.

Which is what is happening to lives and communities being shredded beyond any hope of repair. It means nothing to that model, as they are an expense.

And the increase of misery is a profitable thing, lowering costs, by wages, outsourcing, stealing pensions, pollution and death.