The SEC has their own subpoena powers. No judge necessary. Companies agree to comply as part of the process of going public.
The SEC only has civil jurisdiction, not criminal. The only thing the SEC can do is levy fines and bar company officers from being officers. The DOJ (FBI) will have to get involved for indictments to happen.
How is socialism/communism any better in that regard? You think central planners are immune from well-connected parents? Quite the opposite - it's worse. At least in America you have opportunity, as evidenced by the millions of immigrants willing to do anything to get here every year and almost always end up very successful after only a few year's hard work. How are they able to do that while you are not considering the advantages you have over them?
Right, the people you proclaim don't have the mechanical aptitude to be tradesman go on to be doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, scientists and programmers instead...
The only people on your list who don't routinely end the work-day filthy are programmers and teachers and judging by the quality of their work product over the past decade I think we'd be fine with fewer of them.
"I'd argue that a purely socialist state has never really existed at all"
Of course you would, as that's the only way to dismiss upwards of 100 million deaths caused by socialism over the past century. But it'll be different this time because you'll be in charge?
Capitalist profit motive is the only reason treatments exist today for most of the deadly diseases you're referring to. Without it socialist/communists would've jest left you to die.
"Not everyone wants to go to trade school and become a plumber, electrician, or mechanic. Some people don't even have the natural mechanical aptitude to do so."
You're right, they want to be paid for providing absolutely nothing of value at all and they want the people who do choose those jobs to pay for it while looking down their noses at them.
"Capitalism is itself amoral. Humans, on the other hand, are frequently immoral. And since corporations are controlled by humans... well, you know."
What do you think gets to control EVERYTHING under communism or socialism? Yep, those same humans. Except under those systems they have ALL the power over your entire life, even choosing what job you'll have and what you get to eat (if you're lucky enough to eat). At least with capitalism you have an opportunity to prosper if you choose to and make the right decisions.
You're supposed to learn from the mistakes of others so you don't make them yourself instead of expecting daddy gov't to protect you from yourself. Freedom means being allowed to make mistakes.
The Great Famine that occurred when China prohibited farm ownership (big feature of Communism), replacing (killing) all of the skilled farmers and replacing them with "The People" who had no clue how to grow food and no one left alive to teach them. All part of that Great Leap Forward!
You can't have both open borders and a socialist welfare state. Choose one or the other. The more hardcore socialist a country is the stricter their border enforcement.
And only fifty million Chinese had to die miserably for that communist utopia!
Lets not mention that the average standard of living in China only began to improve once they began adopting capitalism or that the communist regime risks being overthrown if they hint at turning back the clock to that utopia.
Oh, and the notion that the parties just up and flipped sides one day is another pathetic rewriting of history by the modern Left to excuse their horrible history of civil rights. FDR was a modern conservative?
" But the bill of rights is a list of ways in which the government will protect your rights."
Wrong, the Bill of Rights is the set of rules citizens demand to allow the government to exist. Government exists to serve the people, not the people existing to serve the government. Because inalienable rights (natural law). These were radical ideas when the US was founded and is taken for granted today.
The Space Force is more an attempt to separate out programs from the Air Force that have been killing their budget the past decade or more. Whether it is wise or not is debatable, but to automatically declare sinister motives is silly.
That would make the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights invalid then since there is no such thing as inalienable rights.
"Individual liberty? Conservatives have been opposing that since time was time."
I'm afraid you have your groups mixed up. Conservatives were the ones who freed the slaves and extended them the right to vote and own property. Civil Rights for all is a core conservative principle. It's the other side who want multiple sets of rules for different groups of people (hence the subject of this article).
No the problem is people like you who believe that only their opinions are valid and anyone who disagrees with them is an oppressor who must be silenced. There is no free exchange of ideas with such tyranny of thought.
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Couple things:
The SEC has their own subpoena powers. No judge necessary. Companies agree to comply as part of the process of going public.
The SEC only has civil jurisdiction, not criminal. The only thing the SEC can do is levy fines and bar company officers from being officers. The DOJ (FBI) will have to get involved for indictments to happen.
Until the single touchscreen dies or the LED backlight goes out and the entire car can't be driven.
Or touched the screen and have it inadvertently register on the button next to what I was trying to do...
How is socialism/communism any better in that regard? You think central planners are immune from well-connected parents? Quite the opposite - it's worse. At least in America you have opportunity, as evidenced by the millions of immigrants willing to do anything to get here every year and almost always end up very successful after only a few year's hard work. How are they able to do that while you are not considering the advantages you have over them?
Right, the people you proclaim don't have the mechanical aptitude to be tradesman go on to be doctors, nurses, engineers, teachers, scientists and programmers instead...
The only people on your list who don't routinely end the work-day filthy are programmers and teachers and judging by the quality of their work product over the past decade I think we'd be fine with fewer of them.
"I'd argue that a purely socialist state has never really existed at all"
Of course you would, as that's the only way to dismiss upwards of 100 million deaths caused by socialism over the past century. But it'll be different this time because you'll be in charge?
Capitalist profit motive is the only reason treatments exist today for most of the deadly diseases you're referring to. Without it socialist/communists would've jest left you to die.
"Not everyone wants to go to trade school and become a plumber, electrician, or mechanic. Some people don't even have the natural mechanical aptitude to do so."
You're right, they want to be paid for providing absolutely nothing of value at all and they want the people who do choose those jobs to pay for it while looking down their noses at them.
The Narcissism Generation.
The injection of massive socialist programs over the past 50 years is what's keeping Americans in poverty.
"Capitalism is itself amoral. Humans, on the other hand, are frequently immoral. And since corporations are controlled by humans... well, you know."
What do you think gets to control EVERYTHING under communism or socialism? Yep, those same humans. Except under those systems they have ALL the power over your entire life, even choosing what job you'll have and what you get to eat (if you're lucky enough to eat). At least with capitalism you have an opportunity to prosper if you choose to and make the right decisions.
You're supposed to learn from the mistakes of others so you don't make them yourself instead of expecting daddy gov't to protect you from yourself. Freedom means being allowed to make mistakes.
Norway and Sweden both have histories of successful capitalist economies that paid for their new socialism experiment.
The Great Famine that occurred when China prohibited farm ownership (big feature of Communism), replacing (killing) all of the skilled farmers and replacing them with "The People" who had no clue how to grow food and no one left alive to teach them. All part of that Great Leap Forward!
You can't have both open borders and a socialist welfare state. Choose one or the other. The more hardcore socialist a country is the stricter their border enforcement.
Starvation kills a lot of people when socialism takes hold.
And only fifty million Chinese had to die miserably for that communist utopia!
Lets not mention that the average standard of living in China only began to improve once they began adopting capitalism or that the communist regime risks being overthrown if they hint at turning back the clock to that utopia.
This is what happens when post-modernists take over the school systems and Western Values are treated as bad instead of good.
Oh, and the notion that the parties just up and flipped sides one day is another pathetic rewriting of history by the modern Left to excuse their horrible history of civil rights. FDR was a modern conservative?
" But the bill of rights is a list of ways in which the government will protect your rights."
Wrong, the Bill of Rights is the set of rules citizens demand to allow the government to exist. Government exists to serve the people, not the people existing to serve the government. Because inalienable rights (natural law). These were radical ideas when the US was founded and is taken for granted today.
I'm sure the name "Air Force" seemed silly when it was broken off from the Army to become it's own military branch in 1947.
The US star wars program was the final nail in the communist Soviet Bloc's coffin. Money well spent even if it were "fake" (which it's not).
The Space Force is more an attempt to separate out programs from the Air Force that have been killing their budget the past decade or more. Whether it is wise or not is debatable, but to automatically declare sinister motives is silly.
"Natural law? No such thing."
That would make the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights invalid then since there is no such thing as inalienable rights.
"Individual liberty? Conservatives have been opposing that since time was time."
I'm afraid you have your groups mixed up. Conservatives were the ones who freed the slaves and extended them the right to vote and own property. Civil Rights for all is a core conservative principle. It's the other side who want multiple sets of rules for different groups of people (hence the subject of this article).
Anyone to the right of Mao is now an alt-right white nationalist.
No the problem is people like you who believe that only their opinions are valid and anyone who disagrees with them is an oppressor who must be silenced. There is no free exchange of ideas with such tyranny of thought.