tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post9070749880481038629..comments2024-03-28T03:10:19.013-07:00Comments on Fraggmented: My New Corporate Whistle-Blower LawJohn Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07530526320973807452noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-14102403619560873552011-03-01T16:17:03.289-08:002011-03-01T16:17:03.289-08:00Chris is right the corporate heads
have been the a...Chris is right the corporate heads<br />have been the anointed ones. <br />Puppet masters of those who serve below them. Horrible businesses practices have brought the US to it's knees at home and abroad.<br />An appraiser explained how my home value had plummeted by saying "the pendulum has swung the other way"<br />kind of a tough love story. Well I say the same thing to crooked executives, so deal with it. If you don't have enough integrity to play it straight I have no sympathy for you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-68154667918838225982011-02-01T19:55:55.510-08:002011-02-01T19:55:55.510-08:00While I do thoroughly agree that some kind of chan...While I do thoroughly agree that some kind of change is "badly needed in a climate where corporations have all the rights of people, but none of the responsibilities", I think the solution should be much simpler: it should always be more expensive to break the law than to follow it. <br /><br />For example, if a corporation is employing illegal immigrants to save money, the fine should be twice what they saved by doing that, plus the legal costs of the government. (Don't forget to include what they saved on costs other than salary, too.)<br /><br />If they are violating OSHA rules, the fines should be twice the amount they saved by not being compliant, plus the legal costs of the government.<br /><br />And so on.<br /><br />The fines need to be expensive enough that no one can do a risk analysis and say "it's worth the risk". Two times may not be enough, and I certainly wouldn't want to go any lower than that.<br /><br />Note: I include having the guilty party pay the legal costs of the government in addition to their fines because I've seen first hand, while working on healthcare fraud analyses, that often the government has to cap what level they will go after, since it's expensive to prosecute someone. If someone is innocent, they should not have to repay the government's costs, but if they are guilty, that shouldn't be a barrier to the government enforcing the law. And, for huge corporations with expensive lawyers, there needs to be a penalty for trying to outspend justice.Tysonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03471097574427732454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-15515062678760635182011-02-01T07:48:25.318-08:002011-02-01T07:48:25.318-08:00It seems to me you're creating a system in whi...It seems to me you're creating a system in which it's profitable to "prove" the most poorly-paid person possible is solely responsible for any malfeasance, and then strongarm them into silence regarding any individuals higher up the foodchain. Or in which it is actually more profitable to say "Hello, Mr. $50k-a-year, we'll give you a million dollar severance package not to blame the VP for what you've been accused of doing."<br /><br />Or, yes, in which a vindictive employee, being accused of involvement in anything illegal, can utterly destroy the company just by accusing all of management, <em>whether or not there's any justification to the accusations.</em><br /><br />All in all, it strikes me as massively prone to abuse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15742539.post-29199890840775382202011-02-01T06:06:20.440-08:002011-02-01T06:06:20.440-08:00But, weren't corporations anointed by God to h...But, weren't corporations anointed by God to hold dominion over all humankind? It says so in the Bible! Or the Constitution. I always get those mixed up.<br /><br />Essentially, if corporate executives do it, it isn't a crime.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06333221047600488068noreply@blogger.com