"America: The Dumping Ground"

[Leftfield]

I know the concept of goods dumping isn't really new international news, but that is what we have become, the "dumping ground" of the Western economies:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dumping8oct08,0,3535703,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines

I don't really have a problem with this except the necessity of such goods!

So the question is, do you think that these actions are a question of corporate responsibility or political regulation responsibility?

I believe in the former because that is what capitalism is, the corporation is a person that is a responsible member in society and that politics should not get in the way unless it is obvious and people start dying.

Other comments are welcome to discussion...

[Lurker]

So the question is, do you think that these actions are a question of corporate responsibility or political regulation responsibility?

I believe in the former because that is what capitalism is, the corporation is a person that is a responsible member in society and that politics should not get in the way unless it is obvious and people start dying.

Other comments are welcome to discussion...

Ultimately, this issue should be politically regulated. If companies refuse to be responsible on their own - and they will usually refuse - the only recourse is to force them into action.

Capitalism is a dog-eat-dog system. There must be government oversight of an economic system that boils down to - in its extreme form - something similar to Social Darwinism.

Why not be proactive about it? I mean, we know there is a problem already, so is it really necessary to wait until people start dying? As for being obvious, it already is.

[C.J.Woolf]

I feel like we're in a second Gilded Age and we're having to fight the same battles that were fought 100 years ago! (Trusts , unsafe products, etc.) The historical record is clear to me: regulation [I]works. Overregulation? Perhaps not so good, but decades of right-wing propaganda has equated any regulation with overregulation.

"The corporation is a person." Only in law. The documentary film The Corporation makes the point that if a typical corporation were a human person it would be labeled a sociopath. And you can't arrest it and send it to jail.