[Magdalen] Just a thought

[Sally Davies]

About VW...

Our town, Port Elizabeth is kind of the Detroit of South Africa. In many
ways a shadow of its former self, but the VW plant at Uitenhage a short way
inland is still one of the largest and best employers in our very
employment-challenged environment.

They also create hundreds more jobs and incomes, transporting the cars via
PE Harbour. Every few days a massive ship about six stories high appears,
thousands of brand new cars disappear into it. and off it sails for Germany
or other faraway lands.

We're not making diesel vehicles here AFAIK. The factory is highly
sophisticated and they also sponsor the training of many engineers as well
as supporting a course in "mechatronics" at the local University.

But the collapse in the share price and ongoing pressure must surely put
this operation, so important for our pressured local economy, at terrible
risk.

Please in all the understandable anger about VW, remember the many people
and communities who depend on this company, and that the company is not
identifiable with its corrupt leaders or even with Germany.

 I do wonder how they've been able to get away with this, just as I
wondered how the banking industry got away with what they were doing for so
long.

Sally D

On Saturday, September 26, 2015, Jo Craddock <jocraddock at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/25/2015 7:20 PM, Susan Hagen wrote:
>
>> Why do we not have the same moral ideas for
>> >corporate/collective conduct as we do for our individual
>> >conduct?
>>
>
> I'm not sure, especially since SCOTUS declared corporations are people,
> too.
>
> Dreams of officers barred from their industries for life with imprisonment
> in the name of the corporation, and corporate profits deemed public
> property come to mind, among others. If they want the corporate veil
> pierced from the inside, they need to realize the hole is open from the
> outside, as well.
>
> Peace,
> Jo
>