Piggish Capitalism

By David Sirota

Even if you don't dig on swine, it has become impossible to avoid them. If you're not pummeled by television reports about Wall Street oinkers, you're bombarded by talk-radio rants about congressional pork and newspaper dispatches about swine flu. The bacon-flavored themes probably aren't purposefully [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    I love reading Sirota’s stuff.  The gentleman is a perfect idiot.

    The 1918 flu pandemic was the worst in history, killing 50 million worldwide.  And predating “lax anti-trust enforcement and corporate welfare”, “global agribusiness”, and “factory farming”.

    I defy you to explain how “overuse of antibiotics” can possibly “increase the possibility of diseases like swine flu”, since swine flu is a virus and antibiotics have no effect on viruses.  While you are at it, document all the bad effects of “overuse of antibiotics” in this context.  Your left thumbnail will be entirely adequate for this purpose. 

    Swine/bird/human flu shifts and mutates across multiple diverse species.  Air travel restrictions may reduce flu distribution, but no one has come up with an air traffic control system for wild birds.  And the value of air travel and tourism, for example, far outweigh the negligible dangers of the current infection.  On average, over thirty thousand people in the USA die from flu each year, and the total USA deaths from the current panic is exactly two.  So, why is Sirota panic-mongering?

    And

    United States Posted by scorp on May 8, 2009 at 1:36 PM

    Scorp,

    While you are right-on, regarding the use of antibiotics on a virus, my doctor has cautioned against my taking too many of them since they may lose their effectiveness on a truly serious case of pneumonia (which I am prone to get.)

    I must agree with the piggishness in D.C. and Wall ST.

    The massive bailout and protection of bank bond holders is, IMO, one of the biggest travesties

    United States Posted by whattheheck on May 11, 2009 at 7:45 AM

    Boy, scorp, is out of control: “I defy you to explain how

    United States Posted by Dr Cornelius on May 11, 2009 at 10:33 AM
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