Suppose a foreign country were responsible for killing 45,000 Americans per year

It would be a radioactive cinder by now. Yet we allow for profit insurance to do exactly the same thing.

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It should be the headline on every newspaper and news website in existence, all over the world.

It should be the topic of every homily and sermon in every church and mosque and synagogue and house of worship in the United States.

It should be the first subject discussed in every public and private school, college, university, institution of learning in this country.

It should be written on every menu in every restaurant.

It should be painted on the sides of buses and cabs and trains and planes and ships.

All new cars should have this post painted across the trunk.

Each baby born should be given a card with this on it, for the child to hold onto throughout life.

A reminder that not all the murderers are as easy to spot as Charlie Manson, but the nicely-dressed ones are much more vicious, much more dangerous, much more culpable than Charlie ever was or will be.

Thank you for putting in such stark and simple and indisputable terms.

Outrage.

Beyond outrage.

And they get away with it.

K&R...............................................

I wrote a LTTE using a similar analogy which, unfortunately, will probably not be published in my local conservative newspaper. Because fear of H1N1 is so prominent in the news, I asked "what if our town's entire population was doomed to die of the flu? Wouldn't you expect, no, demand that our government DO something to prevent it? Wouldn't you be screaming outrage from your rooftops?" When it's put into a personal context, I find it incomprehensible that our friends, neighbors, and relatives don't get it. It makes me extremely angry, but very sad, too.

--are members of the great American death panel.

--are members of the great American death panel.

The tobacco industry. People here will defend it to their death I'm afraid.....

Would be another way to put it.

*makes sneeze that sounds like "Netanyahu"*
heck, Trujillo was allowed to run rampant in the US until one of his murders was too public, and killed a US security guard

Corporations have access to information about us that even some of our neighbors don't know.