Beware of the Marketplace --- Trust Nothing and No Merchant

[The Lone Liberal]

With the current rush of the Republican party to immunize the marketplace from responsibility under the law, the old saw of Caveat emptor has achieved a new reality. You cannot depend upon a day in court to redress a wrong. The Republican party is determined to deny that day to the average person. That leaves deep distrust as the only protection for the individual.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. You're right, and even moreso since the corporate world

is now structured so that companies don't even take their own long-term interests into consideration. For example, consider what I have come to call "auto-cannibalism:" many companies that used to have strong reputations for quality products will suddenly go cheap, producing shoddy imitations of their own merchandise and reaping huge profits with this process until the public catches on and stops buying their stuff. By the time this happens, the CEO & his cronies have moved on to another company, their bank accounts stuffed with the bonuses they received for pumping the bottom line of the company they just ruined.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. A few "nuisance" lawsuits against the comapnies that donate generously...

to the repukes? Forget it, Legal judgments requiring payouts to people adversely affected by some product only take away cash that could be donated to the candidate of choice -- who then will help pass legislation protecting the company from legal liability.