Most evil corporation?

[KamaAina]

I know, the competition is fierce, but someone's got to be the winner*.

[earth mom]

1. They are all EVIL in their own way. We should be able to choose "ALL" including Big Pharma. nt

[and-justice-for-all]

2. RNC is not listed....nt

[Individualist]

3. All

[jtracy]

4. Blackwater n/t

[KamaAina]

9. Excellent call!

Added (as "Xe", of course :P )

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Well, the correct answer, of course, is "All of the Above".

The first three are literally destroying the planet. The last two have made my life a living Hell through their erroneuous billing, false charges, and call center harassment (BoA in the 1990's, ScamCa$t currently) and WalMart has gutted how many small towns while flooding the market with cheap Chinese crap.

[ladym55]

6. Wow. They are ALL evil

I actually can't pick a frontrunner. Each in its own way has done serious damage. I guess I'd like to throw our good friends at Halliburton into the mix.

[Odin2005]

7. WalMart.

[prairierose]

8. Why is - All of the above - not listed? b/t

I think that would be the best choice...how do you choose between the evil that all of these corporations perpetrate every day? They are all evil; just in different ways and when you add them together...well...I can't think of anything bad enough to say about that.

[JanMichael]

11. Correcto! They ALL suck. nt.

[harun]

10. Other: United Health Care, by a mile.

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. I can't say worst, but certainly they belong on the list.

[KamaAina]

14. Last spot goes to them.

:thumbsup:

[harun]

33. Awesome, thanks!

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. Certainly all of them...but as a gardener and seed saver, I have great hatred for Monsanto.

Their vileness is beyond belief.

Then again, after Watching Food Inc., perhaps AMD and Cargill should be on the list for their insidious pushing of corn in all its forms into most everything most everyone consumes.

Or the Food industry in general for ensuring that unhealthy food is dirt cheap (and much more affordable than healthy fruits and veggies).

[FailureToCommunicate]

43. You're a "seed saver" ? Don't let 'Monsatan' find out!

Who ever could imagine that saving seeds- the fruit of all your hard work- could land you in a court of law against a mega corporation with giant legal staff and a pal on the Supreme Court (Clarence T)

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. I dunno, we vote three times a day when we decide what to eat. Monsanto is leaving

fewer and fewer choices for the world's food supply diversity. And killing us slowly with obesity and pesticide cancers, all in the name of profit.

Tough call on the most evil...

Yep, "all of the above"

[KamaAina]

17. I voted once last November when I decided where to live

a mainstream chain food store is nearby, but nothing in the health or organic range, not even a TJ's or Whole Paycheck. This in the Bay Area, no less. :wtf:

edit: Being transit-dependent, I can't just flit over to the affluent side of town to shop well. :(

[FailureToCommunicate]

42. Any farmers markets on the BART? My recent brush with mortality led me to see "Food Inc" and

read "In Defense of Food" both of which I highly recommend. That won't help your grocery situation perhaps but will go a ways to explaining why the choices are so limited... and so important.

[KamaAina]

44. I'm sure there are

but I'm in San Jose. BART is scheduled to arrive here in 2018. :eyes: In any case, riding transit to shop is an arduous, time-consuming task.

[Dr Morbius]

19. I selected Monsanto myself.

There's evil up and down that list but I harbor a special loathing for Monsatan.

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. MonSATAN. Good one!

[rasputin1952]

16. The ones you haven't heard of yet...

the worst are the one's that know how to keep their "secrets" secret.

To be sure, there are some pretty good corp's out there...but like the mafia or the Tong of yesteryear, they know to keep a low profile, all the while, doing what they do best, enhancing the riches of the already filthy rich.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. All of the above.

[donheld]

20. Stupid poll. Glad to Unrecommend

How can I single one out for a prize they all deserve?

[Quantess]

21. Most evil or just plain greediest?

Greediest would be the banksters like Goldman Sachs, of course.

The title for most evil entails a little more blood on the hands, such as Blackwater, XE, Halliburton. Also throw in BP and Monsanto in that category, for good measure. But, this list is not complete.

[lunasun]

22. Monsanto hands down

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. I voted "other"...

Nestle.

Right after them, of course, BP.

[Initech]

24. I'd vote all of the above.

[Chulanowa]

25. Monsanto

BP is just the latest ogre of the oil companies, but in all fairness, what happened was an accident, caused by the same shit any other company does, and responded to in the same way any company would. They're not especially evil, but it's a good expose on how sorporations work.

Monsanto, however, has as part of its stated charter, an agenda to control world food production, has patented genomes, forces its products on starving nations and then charges them out hte wazoo for it, and is, quite literally, just about as evil as evil can get, at least out of this list.

[OhioChick]

26. Be a much easier poll asking which corps aren't evil and greedy.

I'd have to say "all the above" plus more.

[KamaAina]

32. But it wouldn't get nearly as many votes

:-)

[POAS]

27. OTHER: GOP n/t

[bridgit]

28. BP Morgan Chase Monsanto Sachs

[AnArmyVeteran]

31. Perfect Cartoon!

[Octafish]

39. ''You forgot Brown Brothers Harriman.''

...said the little turd from Crawford, America's very own tinhorn dictator.

Awesome cartoon, bridgit.

PS: I know you didn't forget.

[AnArmyVeteran]

29. Floor Nomination: Commission on Presidential Debates Corporation

Commission on Presidential Debates Corporation is a corrupt organization created by the republican and democratic parties to control debates and to exclude more worthy candidates. The Commission on Presidential Debates sells itself out to corporations which donate huge amounts of money to it. In exchange they get just more avenues to corrupt our political process and those who govern us. They also hand out prized tickets to presidential debates to corporate leaders, the true owners of our government and our country.

The Commission on Presidential Debates Corporation is a sign of the decay of this once great country. It has two leaders, both corporate prostitutes who grant the power to be heard to just those who have sold out to play the game. As I said, the CPD was created to exclude the peoples voices. We have a one party system in this country, with two slightly different flavors. But both of their flavors are toxic to the citizenry...

[Enthusiast]

35. +1 nt

[KamaAina]

30. For those of you nominating the RNC or repuke party

I do believe that they're officially nonprofits. Otherwise, DUH!

[WinkyDink]

34. HALLIBURTON. Has everyone forgotten IRAQ??

[liberalla]

36. How can I pick just one?

That list just scares me. We're in a whole lot of trouble with corporations in control over government.

[era veteran]

37. Monsanto, the evil empire

DDT, Roundup, Agent Orange and more.

[redqueen]

38. If you haven't already - check out Octafish's thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8374897

[KamaAina]

40. Nice!

I am reminded of the Malcolm X quote about the chickens coming home to roost.

[OneBlueSky]

45. I'm not sure how to rank levels of evil . . .

Monsanto is certainly evil, but are they any more evil than BP right now? . . . I think the real answer is that ALL huge, multinational corporations that have indefinite lifespans are inherently evil, simply because they never die (unlike real "persons") . . . they can therefore continue their evil doings indefinitely, building evil upon evil upon evil, with virtually no checks or balances . . .

what is needed is strict regulation of these behemoths, and limitations on what they can do . . . corporations should be prohibited, for example, from buying other companies outside the field they do business in . . . just for starters . . . and a limited lifespan would be a good idea, too . . .

[slackmaster]

46. Former bank employee, long-time financial services industry worker, voting for B of A

Without hesitation.

I've dealt with them as a bank that charged me a fee to cash a check drawn on one of its own customer checking accounts, a bank that bought my bank, a lender that bought my lender, an employer that bought the employer of my spouse, as a major customer of my employer, and several other ways.

Right now they own my mortgage, and they refuse to release me from liability for a debt incurred by my ex-wife on a credit card that she got as a bank employee many years ago, and which I have never used, never even seen a statement for. Money that was all borrowed long after our divorce was final, and that I didn't even know about until last summer.

I am qualified to say that B of A sucks.

[Tesha]

47. How quickly Union Carbide got re-habilitated; they didn't even make your list!

The Republican National Committee is also a corporation.

Tesha

[KamaAina]

48. By the FSM, you're right!

Like I said, the competition's fierce out there. I'll give 'em a Dishonorable Mention.

As for the RNC, is it a for-profit corp or a nonprofit?

[Tesha]

49. I would imagine that, legally, the RNC is a non-profit.

But it's immensely profitable for many.

Tesha