What's Better In The News

  What's better with Lenin is that his mausoleum in Red Square is being over-shadowed by a huge Louis Vitton trunk. The giant trunk houses an exhibit of the company's luggage. Luggage that you can buy and is not forced on you by the State represents a liberty of the individual. As Lenin famously said, "Everything belongs to the State." No longer, Butcher. Communists are unhappy, saying that the trunk desecrates Lenin. Not true. Lenin is a desecration to humanity.
  What's better with the Senakuku Islands is that Obama did send two unarmed B-52s over the islands without filing a flight plan with Communist China as demanded. But Obama has asked domestic carriers to file flight plans. Didn't we learn at Munich that appeasement does not work but only reinforces the bully? Did we not predict such a thing would happen after the insane appeasement with the temporary nuclear agreement with Iran? The lamb calls the wolf. All over the world.
  What's better with working conditions in Bangladesh is that two private safety pacts have been put together "pledging" to invest in factory inspections and upgrades. Steep upgrades, we hope. Walmart is a signatory.
There are also three other groups- Walmart is included here too - that are trying to hone out a single, comprehensive inspection plan. Critics, with justification, see this as more fog saying that the safety risks in the factories are glaringly apparent to any intelligent, honest inspector. They state that what is needed is the government to give such inspectors the power to demand the factory owners make changes or face shutdowns. It remains to be seen what kind of safety plan, if any, the government will pass and enforce. One also wonders about the judicial system in Bangladesh. Can't parties on behalf of injured or killed factory workers sue the factory owners?Overall, this could be a very difficult situation in that you don't want factory workers injured or killed, and at the same time you don't want factory owners deciding that safety features are too expensive and choosing to move to a less demanding country. This leaves your workers jobless and maybe homeless and hungry.
These commentaries are based upon articles in the Wall Street Journal, America's most trustworthy national newspaper. Peter Nickerson - "I didn't go to Vietnam, so this is my way of serving my country."