Anna Molly's List: Corporations & Business

• Rodents, piles of manure, uncaged birds and flies too numerous to count
• nationwide outbreaks of salmonella that have sickened an estimated 1,470 people
• salmonella bacteria in chicken feed
• ound salmonella in water used to wash eggs
• mounds of manure prevented doors from closing
• chicken manure in piles up to eight feet high
• allowing rodents and other animals to possibly come inside,
• also found maggots
• ive and dead flies were too numerous to count."
• rodents and rodent holes, liquid manure leaking into a chicken house and uncaged chickens tracking manure from a manure pit into a caged henhouse
• had been on notice that they needed to meet requirements of the new egg-safety rule for over a year.

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• Inexplicably, the White House won't go along with proposals by several Democratic senators to cap the size of the biggest banks
• to resurrect the Glass-Steagall Act
• or to force the biggest banks to do their derivative trading without the artificial support of tax-payer insured commercial deposits.
• Massey Energy failed to use mandated safety equipment and procedures that might have saved the lives of 29 miners.
• Why are these health insurers still immune from the antitrust laws?
• managers of hedge funds and private-equity funds (the 25 richest of whom took $1 billion each last year) are taxed at only 15 percent
• Franklin D. Roosevelt had no hesitancy blaming the "economic royalists" -- the rich bankers and executives who stood in the way of the New Deal.
• Corporations are organized to maximize profits, not to achieve public goals such as environmental protection, financial trust, safety, and so on.
• Since Ronald Reagan first opined that government was the problem rather than the solution, right-wing Republicans have blasted all forms of regulation. Now we see the consequences of years of regulatory neglect.

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