Nestle CEO: Water Is Not A Human Right, Should Be Privatized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEFL8ElXHaU

 Peter Brabeck-Letmathe speaks for himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEy4aT9Rd4g

The response

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/27/18770528.php

Protest in California shuts down Nestle

The same thing is happening in Florida. 12 different companies hold permits giving them the right to drain as much water from our aquifers as they want. The price of this permit is all but nothing. This is not happening because anyone thinks it is good for the citizens of Florida. This is happening because the corrupt demagogues who keep conning their way back into office year after year in Florida with ads about God and how their opponent is a pedophile, closet Muslim terrorist or philatelist are getting fat on graft (the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain). I am not exaggerating. The late Claude Pepper, running as an incumbent, lost his US senate seat representing Florida to an opponent, George Smathers, who accused Pepper of being a philatelist (someone who collects stamps) and a flaming heterosexual who practiced celibacy before his marriage to a woman who was already well known at that time as a thespian (someone who acts in plays).

         As we speak, many of the winners in the last election have already transferred their winnings off-shore while laughing at the stupidity of the deluded little dupes who put them in office. If you voted for Rick Scott, I am talking about you and the people you voted for last election and the election before and will keep voting for again and again until you die of either thirst or the long-range effects of drinking tap-water that will light if you put a match to it.           

The CEO of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, thinks that phony people (corporations motivated exclusively by greed) and not real people (who live with water around or under them that they need to survive as much as the air around and above them) own all the water. In Florida, he is right thanks to that permit I mentioned earlier. Why does a phony Swiss citizen (Nestle) own the water under your feet? Because the people who get elected in Florida sold him (Nestle) a cheap permit that allows Nestle to make billions draining as much water as they can sell anywhere in the world from Florida's aquifers. This was a horrible deal for Florida and a very profitable deal for Nestle and, I am quite sure, for the fervent apostles of tickle-down economics that sold a permit worth billions for peanuts.

         Soon, Nestle will buy a license to hunt and fish. Ten years later, there will not be a fish swimming in fresh water or an edible beast left alive in the forests of Florida. Anything is possible in a state where politicians will sell the water right out from under their constituent's feet. Maybe Rick Scott and the whole sick crew will move to Switzerland after Florida becomes uninhabitable. That is probably where the money has gone already.