Federal and state authorities secured a record $1.92 billion payment from HSBC to settle charges that the British banking giant transferred billions of dollars for sanctioned nations, facilitated Mexican drug cartels to launder tainted money and worked with Saudi Arabian banks with ties to terrorist organizations. Once again, rich people can break the law and do great harm to this country, but because you’re “too big to fail,” cash will do. Why do they have that kind of cash and still survive? Because crime pays.
A shooting spree at Clackamas Shopping Center in Portland. Why? Because the NRA and gun manufacturers have more money than the people who continue to die. And because people like Gabby Giffords, a former U.S. representative, ultimately have no voice.
Michigan becomes the 24th state to be “Right to work” because in this country, unions and labor are never too big to fail. Corporate America knows that as soon as Americans are working for the same wage as China and India, they save the shipping costs.
Michael Cortney
Vancouver
