Corporations privatize profits and socialize costs
This letter to the editor by Carol M. Saalbach appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on October 14th, 2019.
I attended an Oct. 4 hearing at the City-County Building about the state Department of Environmental Protection’s lawsuit against Grant Township for upholding the home rule charter and trying to protect their water from injections of radioactive shale gas fluids (Oct. 5, “Legal Battle Continuing Over Safety of Well Water”).
I could not believe that an environmental protection agency would sue a community that has no public water — only wells and springs — for refusing to allow unknown chemicals to be put into the community.
Why are there not more people protesting this issue? Why do corporations seem to have more rights than people? I read a very interesting quote recently in “What the Heck Should I Eat?” by Dr. Mark Hyman: “Our government allows corporations to privatize profits and socialize costs.”
In other words, the burden of cleanup is foisted on taxpayers and is not included in the responsibility of the corporations. I think that Gandhi was correct — modern civilization would be a good idea.
(To read this letter at its original source please click HERE.)