Too Big to Fail and Too Small to Matter

Submitted by Anna on Wed, 09/24/2008 - 21:00

By Norman Solomon, Co-Chair, PDA Helathcare NOT Warfare Campaign
September 24, 2008

These times provide a crash course on the corporate state:

If a company like AIG is too big to fail, the government will rescue it. Mere people—too small to matter—are expendable.

The insurance industry is too big to fail. A person’s health is too small to matter, so—when it fails due to the absence or loopholes of insurance coverage—that’s tough luck.

The Defense Department is too big to fail. The people it’s killing in Iraq and Afghanistan are too small to matter. ....

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