What Hillary should have said about super-predators

[kristopher]

Original statement

"We also have to have an organized effort against gangs…. They are not just gangs of kids anymore.

They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators.
No conscience.
No empathy.

We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel, and the president has asked the FBI to launch a very concerted effort against gangs everywhere."

What she could have said even then...

We also have to have an organized effort against gangs of corporate persons…. They are not just associations of businesses anymore.

They are often the kinds of corporate persons that are called superpredators.
No conscience.
No empathy.

We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel, and President Sander's will launch a government-wide concerted effort against control of the government and economy by gangs of corporate persons everywhere.

See also:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016151876

And the original of Hillary for reference.

[Cassiopeia]

1. She calls those kinds of superpredators

close family friends.

[kristopher]

2. ...and her support network.

All of us need a good support network and our lives are made all the better by having people to encourage us and help us out when we need it. Consider who you call on to get some advice, think through a problem or get practical assistance for a job you can’t do on your own. You are likely to call on family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, acquaintances or friends of friends, depending on what it is you need.

- random internet source on support networks

American corporations today are like the great European monarchies of yore: They have the power to control the rules under which they function and to direct the allocation of public resources. This is not a prediction of what’s to come; this is a simple statement of the present state of affairs. Corporations have effectively captured the United States: its judiciary, its political system, and its national wealth, without assuming any of the responsibilities of dominion. Evidence is everywhere.

The Corporate Capture of the United States
Posted by the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance & Financial Regulation, on Thursday, January 5, 2012
https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/01/05/the-corporate-capture-of-the-united-states/

[kristopher]

3. Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy

Where is Hillary is recognizing this threat to our society?

Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Mega-Profits and the Attack on Democracy
by Russell Mokhiber, Robert Weissman
192 pages, July 1, 2002

Of the world's biggest 100 economies, 51 are corporations, not countries. As the most powerful institution of our time, the multinational corporation dominates not only global economics, but politics and culture as well. But the mechanisms of corporate control and the details of corporate abuses have remained largely hidden from public perception-until now.
In this compelling collection of columns, investigative journalists Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman critique corporate power from a relentlessly human perspective. While mainstream media cheerfully laud big business's record profits, Mokhiber and Weissman ask the real questions-Where is profit coming from? When working Americans' incomes have dropped dramatically since 1980, while salaries of corporate CEOs have risen 500 percent in the same period, is the economy really booming? Whose economy is this, anyway?

From union-busting to food irradiation, from faulty air bags that kill but are left on the market anyway to judges who take bribes, from the IMF to oil companies-wherever corporate crime strikes, Mokhiber and Weissman are there, covering an amazing range of issues, to sound the alarm and call people to action.

http://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Predators-Mega-Profits-Attack-Democracy/dp/1567511589