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To: tejek who wrote (78447)	6/17/2010 2:53:54 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"Occidental's stockholders, on the other hand, probably barely noticed the costs of the "cleanup." The multibillion-dollar company managed to stave off paying cleanup costs for two decades, and then paid in present dollars, avoiding payment of what would have amounted to $80 million more if the "cleanup" had been paid for when it was done. What happened along the Love Canal is a tragic example of the horrors capitalism visits on society, and chiefly on working people, as the capitalist class pursues its insatiable drive for profit. To dispose safely of the toxic chemical wastes that result from the operations of capitalist industry would cut into the profit extracted from the working class. To redesign production so that toxic wastes would not be produced at all would cut even further into profits; hence, the compulsion to dispose of those wastes in the most inexpensive way. " sound familiar?