Kimberly-Clark CEO not shy about using Disaster Capitalism for more Corporate Welfare.

We the people have already lost the battle against the corporate takeover of our country. I wrote about it here. The battle now, is how much farther down the ladder do we want to be in society, and in the workplace. With the help of the GOP and Tea Party movement, pushing for the freedom to fight the battles against our business hierarchy alone, wages, unions, health care, safety nets and tort law are all on the endangered species list. We've already been told, and many believe, that Medicare and Social Security won't be there for us. A total fabrication.

Disaster capitalism is a simple concept explained by Naomi Klein in the book "The Shock Doctrine." Klein's description precedes the Great Recession, but that event could easily be included:

“Countries are shocked — by wars, terror attacks, coups d’état and natural disasters.” Then “they are shocked again — by corporations and politicians who exploit the fear and disorientation of this first shock to push through economic shock therapy.” People who “dare to resist” are shocked for a third time, “by police, soldiers and prison interrogators.”

So imagine my surprise when a corporate fat cat like Kimberly-Clark's CEO and Chairman Thomas Falk, unaware of Klein's book, offers up disaster capitalism at a Senate finance hearing, as a solution to tax reform. Not one eye brow was raised: