Daily Reading for Friday
August 18th, 2011
- Gary Mar, one of the new Conservative leadership contenders in Alberta, is arguing that we need to privatize healthcare to capitalize on the freed-up savings of “wealthy baby boomers.” Werner Patels says “he might just as well have put a sign on his backside that said ‘Kick me, repeatedly … please!’”
- Yves at Naked Capitalism reveals that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, also known as the world’s most ineffectual law enforcement agency, actually destroys the evidence it gathers that might be used to expose crimes by the corporations it investigates.
chris
Werner Patels? I thought he was barred from the internet years ago!
Sixth Estate
He was allowed back on early by an activist judge.
Keith
I though Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone was the one who really kicked the SEC story out there…