Lemon Justice Deja Vu

I haven't gotten a chance to write as much as i would have liked to over the weekend. i had some great things in my head that have sort of fallen out after such an eventful weekend such as this one. but i am going to try my very best to get my point across

Like i said in the previous blog entry, i am going to start blogging about "themes" (with some other stuff as well) With our country's current economic crisis, corporate greed has been in the news quite often. However, i have yet to hear about it in class until recently. Last Thursday in my sociology class my teacher put on a documentary on corporate greed. now, normally when a movie goes on, and the lights go off, that it is time for Megan to take a nap. especially with the comfy couches that my teacher has provided for us. This was not the case today, i was awake and attentive through the whole thing. It seemed that even though this was not at all a new documentary, it fit in perfectly to what was going on right now.

Later on in the day when i got to mr. miller's class, i found a blog entry on corporate greed. The entry i found was on the blog, Lemon Justice. This blog is written by Sergei Lemberg, Esq. According to the top right hand corner of his blog Sergei Lemberg, Esq., focuses his practice on Lemon Law, Consumer Fraud, Auto Warranty and Auto Injury litigation. He is licensed to practice in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

His blog entry, Philadelphia Lawyers Take On Corporate Greed, focuses on the lawyers who have been fighting the injustices of corporate greed. "Corporate greed often results in poor decisions being made by companies who place profits over the people who buy their product" was something said by Lemberg that tired together the whole blog entry for me.

He then goes on by using different examples that show how major companies would rather make that extra buck then make sure there clients are happy. After reading this blog entry it made the current crisis truly real to me. i knew it was happening, but this entry showed me how it was happening.

Continuing on with my theme of greed...there was an article written in "The Proclamation", the Wilber Cross High School newspaper. The article was titled "AIG Bailed Out by Government" and was written by a student (for sake of safety, i wont say his name). The reason that this article caught my eye when i was flipping through it last Friday, was one of the two picture that were chosen to be placed on the article. the picture that caught my eye was of hundred dollar bills and the word "greed" in capital letter spelt out at the bottom.

While i was reading the article, discussing how the insurance company's stock value had dropped more then 50%, i noticed how perfectly it fit with Lembergs blog entry. The government gave AIG the help it needed to get them back to the top. at least that what the government had thought, but apparently it was not enough. after AIG asked for more money, they finally went back up on top, but according to this article this is not the only company that is struggling.

Even though the price of gas going down is a good thing, our economy going down is not. Hopefully a year from now the things that i will be reading will be written in a different light.