What Would You Think If You Opened Today's Paper And Read That A Dozen Corporate CEO Were Lynched By Their Mistreated Workers?

I was reading Robert Wexler's book, Fire-Breathing Liberal, at dinner tonight, specifically the chapter about how Bush stole the 2000 presidential election in Palm Beach County. For a few moments I relived in great sadness the ultimate un-American nature of the Republican operation down there. Wexler:

The Republican strategy was simple: Get George W. Bush into the White House at all costs. Do whatever was necessary and worry about how to rehabilitate later. Don't worry what you look like, don't worry about the consequences to the nation.

There was pillage and plunder at stake and they were determined to have it at any and all costs. A nation if sheep let them have it at practically no cost at all. Their proposed $700,000,000,000 bailout/fleecing is the ultimate payout for them and it looks like they'll get that at no cost either.

Not so in India-- and for not nearly as great a crime-- yesterday. There the Labor Minister, Oscar Fernandes, warned the same breed of corporate criminals that the lynching this week of Lalit Kumar Choudhary, the CEO of Graziano Transmissioni in Noida near New Delhi, should make them rethink their predatory employment practices.

“People are employed on contract basis. There is disparity in wages of permanent workers and contract workers. There is simmering discontent among workers and they should not be driven to such an extent as happened in Greater Noida...Managements have to see this as a warning and they should also respond adequately,” Fernandes said.

He said that companies tend to hire people on contracts even when they are in a position to make permanent appointments, leading to fewer jobs in the organised sector. “Workers react violently when they lose their jobs,” the Minister said, adding, “At the same time, managements have their problems also. But what I am saying is that the whole issue should be viewed with compassion. I appeal to companies to treat workers’ problems with compassion.”

Indian corporatists have taken a different view and are screaming how the murder will "sully the country’s image amongst overseas investors." God forbid.

The law of the jungle rarely works out well for working people. The rich had the money to hire all the mercenaries they need. But wouldn't you just love to see a few Bushies, McCain lobbyists and corporate scumbags hanging from lamp posts? Meanwhile, though, at least the polls have turned around strongly enough to make it more difficult for Republicans to steal the election again.

Turmoil in the financial industry and growing pessimism about the economy have altered the shape of the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead of the general-election campaign over Republican John McCain, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News national poll.

Just 9 percent of those surveyed rated the economy as good or excellent, the first time that number has been in single digits since the days just before the 1992 election. Just 14 percent said the country is heading in the right direction, equaling the record low on that question in polls dating back to 1973.

More voters trust Obama to deal with the economy, and he currently has a big edge as the candidate who is more in tune with the economic problems Americans now face. He also has a double-digit advantage on handling the current problems on Wall Street, and as a result, there has been a rise in his overall support. The poll found that, among likely voters, Obama now leads McCain by 52 percent to 43 percent. Two weeks ago, in the days immediately following the Republican National Convention, the race was essentially even, with McCain at 49 percent and Obama at 47 percent.

Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) is angry, but not enough to hang any CEOs or Bushies: