How Big Business Robs Us With "Externalities"

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2. It's even worse,

Big business makes a profit, and gets credit for adding to the national economy, on every one of those operations. The government agencies who have to do the cleanup all must buy their equipment, vehicles, office supplies, communication devices and special clothing from a corporate supplier. (Government contracts make fortunes - corporations become irate if the army gets its uniforms from a federal prison factory, or a public facility even does its own laundry, rather than contracting it out.)

Even better is the money to be made on health problems caused by industry. Every syringe, every scalpel, every MRI machine and operating table is bought from private suppliers. And we won't even mention the drugs - that would be obscenity.

There was a terrific documentary on this.... let's see if i can recall enough of the title to find it. No, sorry; it's gone. The Corporation is pretty good, too.