NewYorkBuck
Do not read this title
http://money.cnn.com/2005/01/25/news/fortune500/mcdonalds.reut/index.htm
This is the end all. First tobacco - of course it's the tobacco companies fault that people chose to smoke cigarettes, when emblazoned on the side of every package is the legal equivalent of "if you smoke these, you will die". At my old job, I worked on securitizing tobacco settlement receipts for states (of course, the politicians wanted to bring all of the money forward so they can piss it away immediately), and the lawsuit is amazing - the tobacco companies have to pay the states roughly $10 billion per year - FOREVER. No, not once - a never ending stream of cashflows adjusted by inflation and production. The funny thing now is for the states not to default on the bonds - THEY NEED PEOPLE TO CONTINUE TO SMOKE. Unbelievable.
Next - in their infinite wisdom, the trial lawyers turned their attention to the gun companies, as everyone knows it is the guns fault that it picked itself up and discharged itself at a human being. Sadly, when the lawyers found that the gun companies really didn't make any money to steal, for some reason that I just cant figure out, they then decided that the gun companies weren't really culpable anymore. Those bastions of society. I guess today your degree of guilt is directly proportional to the amount lawyers can steal from you.
Now McDonald's. This may be the best one yet. I thought this suit was mercifully thrown out a year ago, but it looks like there are still fat idiots trying to make money off of their own gluttony. There is no secret that eating caloric food in excess makes you fat. If you are so stupid that McDonald's "tricked" you into buying it - then I see the result as normal evolution and hopefully you will die before your stupid genes get a chance to reproduce and water down the human selection pool. If it is your kids - then guess what - it just may be time to be a parent and make sure your kids are eating right. I swear, I wish McDonald's filed a countersuit against these idiots on basis of frivolously trying to damage a brand.
In all seriousness, I believe that the cause for issues like this is the most serious moral problem that this country faces. From tobacco to eating to driving to social security to welfare - it is this - it seems that almost no one is responsible for themselves or their own actions anymore. I really can't believe that so many are willing to delegate the welfare and direction of their lives to complete strangers, but thats the flavor of the day. There is so much more I can say on this, I don't think I could finish writing in a day, but I think the astute reader can fill in most of the blanks themselves.
Ok - off my soapbox now. Have a good day all.
This is the end all. First tobacco - of course it's the tobacco companies fault that people chose to smoke cigarettes, when emblazoned on the side of every package is the legal equivalent of "if you smoke these, you will die". At my old job, I worked on securitizing tobacco settlement receipts for states (of course, the politicians wanted to bring all of the money forward so they can piss it away immediately), and the lawsuit is amazing - the tobacco companies have to pay the states roughly $10 billion per year - FOREVER. No, not once - a never ending stream of cashflows adjusted by inflation and production. The funny thing now is for the states not to default on the bonds - THEY NEED PEOPLE TO CONTINUE TO SMOKE. Unbelievable.
Next - in their infinite wisdom, the trial lawyers turned their attention to the gun companies, as everyone knows it is the guns fault that it picked itself up and discharged itself at a human being. Sadly, when the lawyers found that the gun companies really didn't make any money to steal, for some reason that I just cant figure out, they then decided that the gun companies weren't really culpable anymore. Those bastions of society. I guess today your degree of guilt is directly proportional to the amount lawyers can steal from you.
Now McDonald's. This may be the best one yet. I thought this suit was mercifully thrown out a year ago, but it looks like there are still fat idiots trying to make money off of their own gluttony. There is no secret that eating caloric food in excess makes you fat. If you are so stupid that McDonald's "tricked" you into buying it - then I see the result as normal evolution and hopefully you will die before your stupid genes get a chance to reproduce and water down the human selection pool. If it is your kids - then guess what - it just may be time to be a parent and make sure your kids are eating right. I swear, I wish McDonald's filed a countersuit against these idiots on basis of frivolously trying to damage a brand.
In all seriousness, I believe that the cause for issues like this is the most serious moral problem that this country faces. From tobacco to eating to driving to social security to welfare - it is this - it seems that almost no one is responsible for themselves or their own actions anymore. I really can't believe that so many are willing to delegate the welfare and direction of their lives to complete strangers, but thats the flavor of the day. There is so much more I can say on this, I don't think I could finish writing in a day, but I think the astute reader can fill in most of the blanks themselves.
Ok - off my soapbox now. Have a good day all.
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