13 people died because GM refused to switch out a faulty ignition switch on the Chevy Cobalt and other models, despite being aware of the problem. The change would have cost GM 90 cents per car.
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Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Okay. It’s Friday, barely, and I’m already pissed. Let me cut right to the motherfuckin’ chase on this one.
Here is the link. Read the whole goddamned thing.
WE HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE! And memo to Michael Moore: Hey, asshat, that the CEO of GM is a mother does not magically imbue her with “care” or “concern.” If she “cared” this shit would not have gone on for this long. Period. Full stop. Stop flapping your overstuffed, supersized ego.
And memo to Michael Moore’s critics who argue that his response about the death penalty for these people was “over the top.” Bullshit. It’s one of the few things Moore has said recently that makes perfect sense. These people conspired — whether they all sat in the same room while they did it or whether everyone simply went, “If I don’t, they’ll just get someone who will” in their separate offices — to put a deadly product on the road. They, absolutely deserve, at a minimum, to draw 13 consecutive life sentences.
Now I’m gonna have my frickin’ cup of morning coffee. Don’t piss me off with idiocy on this one, people.
Link doesn’t work for me.
If you die because the link doesn’t work, it isn’t my fault. Here’s the manually-inflate-air-bag-click-yes-to-confirm link (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness?page=1)
Also, the website doesn’t indicate any replies from the front page.
I heard it was a 57 cent piece, but no matter, they won’t get busted because we all know now from the Ford incident that you simply don’t talk about safety and economics in the same meeting. The language of interactions was carefully crafted to protect GM from any liability. I’m not sure I care an immense amount about this, though, Ted, and I don’t know why. . . maybe it’s because we all have our upper limits of saturation.
Because the capitalist system allows killing with impunity, that is, with no penalty except in those few cases that won’t disappear from the eye of the consuming public, corporations can operate as a protection racket, selling protection from their indifference to public health.
Pesticides are untested, or test results are unpublished, as in the case of cigarettes, so that the premium paid for organic produce results. Even the legal definition of “organic” is subject to corporate tampering through purchased legislation so that fear of poisoning is alleviated while the dangers remain.
Nice cartoon Ted.
Reminds me of the way tomatoes were classified as fruits to avoid tariffs.
Same diff on the exploding Pinto. Ford knew damn good & well that people were going to die, sold it anyway.
Pop Quiz! How many people were incarcerated for the deaths?
Ha Ha! It’s a trick question – with our laws, *people* aren’t held accountable. The *corporation* made the decision, not a human being.
“I’ll believe that corporations are people when Texas executes one” – Robert Reich.
Makes me think of Toyota’s sticky accelerators. What a nightmare that one was. Same story really.
Yes, Jack, it’s very similar. What a nightmare.
The last frame is brilliant, Ted – who says capitalists don’t care about saving lives by providing alternatives to faulty products ?!!…
Henri