Gross incompetence/ negligence/ callous indifference.. whatever we want to call it.

[SoCalDem]

The thing that never ceases to amaze me is how ONE company .....BP... or Exxon....(or in the case of Wall Street..a few companies) can utterly destroy the livelihoods of so many innocent people, and the lives of so many innocent wild creatures (who also should have worth), and still stay in business, doing business and paying bonuses & raking in profits.

In the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, there are always consequences to be paid for the errors we make:

drink/drive....
.......jail, large monetary losses and probably the ability to drive legally.. tou'll probably have a hard time keeping your job too, with the court/jail thing and if your job requires on-the-job driving, you WILL lose your job (and the benefits you used to have as well)

cheat on your wife-husband-s.o?
.......you'll probably lose your relationship and may endure large expenses from there on out.

screw up on the job?
....you'll probably get fired and might end up on the street if you cannot keep paying your bills without that income

crash your car into another person's car?
.....your insurance rates are likely to go up, and you might still get sued for damages

injure someone?
.....you'll likely be sued and may lose everything you have

But...

one greedy careless corporation can damage/destroy a whole eco-system, negatively impact the lives of millions of people, and have their damage-payment obligation somehow "capped", and also "transfer" the cleanup costs to the same people whose lives they ruined (via taxes paid to the fed. govt), and the costs incurred by the corporation will surely percolate through their bookkeeping schemes so they end up being borne again , by "customers", via higher prices for oil, down the line.

the costs being borne by the government are happening right now,..in real time..as they all try to clean up BP's mess, and yet when it comes time for BP to pony up the repayment, watch for hordes of lawyers to show up complaining about how unfair it all is.

[kentuck]

1. The idea of justice...

which we think we have as citizens of the United States is nothing but an propagandistic illusion.

[RandomThoughts]

2. And that needs to change.

Justice has to be equal to exist, or it is oppression.

[Enthusiast]

3. It is more an illusion every

day. And positively massive misinformation resources are at work to convince you otherwise. Any argument that there is no "justice for all" is un-American.