Monday, September 12, 2011

The Immorality of Abusing Technicalities

Trump to Clinton on not paying taxes: “That makes me smart.” Afterwards on CNN: “No, I didn’t say that at all” – snopes.com
Deskbound health adjusters on commission denying lifesaving claims on pure technicalities
Tax lawyers growing rich and respected for purposely circumventing legislative intent
Pocketing fat fees and great honor finding loopholes to exploit with impunity and pride
Managers feeling quite upstanding doing anything counsel says that they can currently get away with

Introducing any new product chemical without testing, if it is simply not yet expressly forbidden
Approving uninspected imported food ingredients for fat bonuses without moral or legal responsibility
Cannily offshoring production simply to evade costly and intrusive environmental restrictions
Control freaks deliberately maintaining an insistence on ignorance to avoid charges of actually lying

Buying canned research studies published only if the results can be shown as favorable to our drugs
Earning huge salaries shystering complexities to cunningly subvert the spirit of the law
Righteously claiming ethical high ground with schemes morally equivalent to the absolutely outlawed
Minimally compliant with current regulations although knowing they are outdated and insufficient

Waltzing off to a secure bankruptcy from their superfund sites now surrounded by cancer hotspots
Sleeping well at night as your outsourcers work peasants 14 hrs a day with 20 to a bedroom
Lawyering by amoral procedural technicality, having nothing to do with charges, evidence or guilt
Paying whorish lobbyists obscene amounts to pervert the democratic process to greedy ends

Burying unrelated pork and hiding far-reaching provisions in all or nothing 10000 page legislation
Defensively bristling ‘We meet all government requirements’ after buying off any new regulation
Not counting the given up, underemployed or forced to part-time among the normal Unemployed
Replacing Tax and Spend with Borrow and Spend while calling for citizen Personal Responsibility

Confining mandated warnings to large words in small print, knowing they have no real effect
Paying them handsomely for stalling regulation by calling research into question via soundbites
Reducing requirements and inflating grades so that no child knows where they are left
Charging usurious interest and fees to credit card users as well as 3% to all the merchants

Reporting artificial News that attracts a target audience that satisfies big money advertisers
Convolutedly redrawing voting districts along party lines only to ensure future election results
Guaranteeing insider legislative influence simply by donating heavily to candidates of both sides
Maintaining a cozy political duopoly by jointly co-opting all 3rd party movements into wackos

Gaining yearend bonuses by artificially boosting profits by merely postponing expense recognition
Lavishly rewarding conniving legal parasites who enable you to successfully evade taxes
Profitably re-imaging foolish consumer overspending into equity-financed negative savings rates
Swaddling arms marketing in gentle music and pleasant images of children and puppies

Being subsidized for defaulting on debts and benefits in the holy ruse of competitiveness
Glowingly praising the Human Resource while striving to cut labor costs in any way possible
Proudly rebranding corporate evasion, circumvention, subversion and delay as Doing the Right Thing
Totally comfortable mouthing Perfectly Legal to get richer via rule twisting and regulator buying

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