Working Life

So, Henry Kissinger is 90 years old. I wonder how many of the survivors of the millions of people he helped kill want to wish him a Happy Birthday? That is all.

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When I wrote about Apple’s tax dodge, some people responded, and I saw other similar comments, that Apple was just doing what was legal and you can’t fault a company for taking advantage of the tax code. Which sort of missed the point.

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Is there a website for corporate-speak slogans that are simply covers for robbery? Must be. If not, there should be — and AT&T’s “administrative fee” has got to take an honored place on the list.

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The dead have been pulled out of the rubble of the garment factory in Bangladesh. And while many of the retailers in the U.S. are trying to avoid any new regulations, the survivors are coping with a very brutal future.

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This sort of explains it all — when obscenity is stark and clear.

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Full disclosure. I’m typing this blog on a Mac. Within reach is my IPhone. So, this is not some sort of stealth pro-PC campaign. But, enough already — Apple is perhaps one of the biggest corporate tax dodgers in history. And it’s OUR money that Apple is salting away in tax havens around the world — money that isn’t going to the Treasury to fund schools, roads, health care and you name it. I’m right there at the point of throwing all my Apple products away — or at least pledging never to set foot in another Apple store again. What about you?

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This is not really an entirely new story. But, it’s good to see something positive about organized labor — and particularly about a dynamic labor leader.

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If you want change, you have to be consistent. And consistency means you have to call out people no matter what political stripe the person might carry. So, it’s just a fact that Penny Pritzker, the president’s nominee for Commerce Secretary, has been the beneficiary of an off-shore tax dodge.

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The inexorable march to another big financial crisis takes another baby step every day. The banks, hey, they just keep spreading their muscle and graft everywhere to make sure that nothing changes. To wit.

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In the annals of “this is no surprise” let me chalk up yet another example of the immoral behavior of the Wal-Mart family: it is not interested in signing on to a broadly accepted new safety code of practice in Bangladesh. No–the greed and avarice of the five Walton heirs, each of whom is worth around $20 billion, has no upper limit. Even if it means people get killed — though I guess if they aren’t white people and they are far away in another land, the Waltons just don’t care.

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