Ball lacks compassion
Billionaire NFL executives deny any connection between football collisions and brain damage. Fossil-fuel billionaires deny they are polluting our air and water while cooking our planet. Billionaires in chemical industries deny that the poisons that make them rich are destroying our ecosystem and causing multiple illnesses in humans. Billionaires in the tobacco industry for years denied any connection between smoking and respiratory diseases. They’ve all managed to purchase “experts” who confirm their denials.
Profits before people – the capitalist way.
Charles and David Koch, fossil-fuel merchants from Kansas, epitomize capitalist materialism. They have wealth estimated at over $80 billion, and have spent hundreds of millions in efforts to influence the outcome of elections all over the country, with the ultimate purpose of cutting their taxes and deregulating their businesses, making themselves even wealthier. If they converted their wealth to cash, they could spend $1 million a day, every day, for 200 years – yes, you read that right – and still have $7 billion left. How much is enough?
Yet, Dave Ball, in his Aug. 6 biweekly report of what they are talking about over at Fox News, saw the possibility of a low-income family “abusing” an annual $3,000 per-child allowance as a sign of a deteriorating America. The apocalyptic picture he paints of a present-day America is as unhinged and lacking substance as a Rudy Giuliani speech.
Ball’s complete lack of empathy and compassion for those less fortunate is stunning.
Don DeAngelis
Canonsburg