Within the Profit Margin, the Stench of Death

[unhappycamper]

http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17945-within-the-profit-margin-the-stench-of-death



Within the Profit Margin, the Stench of Death
ROBERT C. KOEHLER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Thursday, 02 May 2013 13:47

“Everywhere near the building, the stench of death was overpowering. Men in surgical masks sprayed disinfectant in the air.”

We move from tragedy to tragedy with hellish regularity.

“The scope of injuries,” Jim Yardley writes in the New York Times, “was horrifying: fractured skulls, crushed rib cages, severed livers, ruptured spleens. One survivor lost both legs. . . . A teenage girl named Sania lost her right leg. Another teenager, Anna, lost her right hand.”

This wasn’t from a bomb in Boston. It was from a collapsed building outside Dhaka, Bangladesh — another shocking sweatshop disaster, this one claiming the lives, according to the most recent count, of 385 people, with many more missing and at least 1,000 injured. Eight people, including the owner of the building, which housed five separate garment operations employing more than 3,000 people, were arrested. Workers, the Times reported, saw cracks in the walls of the building the day before it collapsed. They were told to go to work anyway.

[creativebliss]

1. Tragic, but true. Until, we the people, undercut profit ourselves...

the underpriveleged will remain endangered.