For Dumbos, Morons, and U.S. Retailers, greed is a bottomless pit. The poor wretches in garment factories in black holes like Bangladesh work for a pittance and their finished products sell at a huge profit in Big-Box stores across the USA. The disaster in Bangladesh has already faded from the news in this country. Read a refresher here. The deadliest garment-factory accident in history was ho-hum to U.S. major retailers. May they choke on their ill-gotten gains on Black Friday and ever after. If this is a (fair & balanced) rejection of unbridled avarice, so be it.
[x The Nation]
Double-Entry Bookkeeping
By The Deadline Poet (Calvin Trillin)
Tag Cloud of the following piece of writing
U.S. Retailers Decline To Aid Factory Victims In Bangladesh
—Headline in The New York Times
Black Friday comes but once a year,
And bargains mean that sales are strong.
Refusing help to these folks is
A bargain lasting all year long. Ω
[Calvin Trillin began his career as a writer for Time magazine. Since July 2, 1990, as a columnist at The Nation, Trillin has written his weekly "Deadline Poet" column: humorous poems about current events. Trillin has written considerably more pieces for The Nation than any other single person. A native of Kansas City, MO, Trillin received his BA from Yale College in 1957. He served in the army, and then joined Time.]
Copyright © 2013 The Nation
Sapper's (Fair & Balanced) Rants & Raves by Neil Sapper is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at sapper.blogspot.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available here.
Copyright © 2013 Sapper's (Fair & Balanced) Rants & Raves
No comments:
Post a Comment
☛ STOP!!! Read the following BEFORE posting a Comment!
Include your e-mail address with your comment or your comment will be deleted by default. Your e-mail address will be DELETED before the comment is posted to this blog. Comments to entries in this blog are moderated by the blogger. Violators of this rule can KMA (Kiss My A-Double-Crooked-Letter) as this blogger's late maternal grandmother would say. No e-mail address (to be verified AND then deleted by the blogger) within the comment, no posting. That is the (fair & balanced) rule for comments to this blog.