Yes we should tast the bankers since we are always on the hook for bailing them out when the play in the casino. This country can't afford these folks and we need to know if they are drug users.
This guy is facing a 25 year prison sentence and yet banksters who took down our economy by their playing in the casino got no prison time. We have 2 kinds of justice in this country, one for the uber rich and one for the rest of us.
I find that all of them don't report what the really important things. Slashdot at least will often have something important while most of the news is just a pitch for some product. I don't find it slanted to the left at all, MSNBC doesn't have the power that Fox News has. I find the supposed left wing MSNBC a little to the right, but we all have different opinions. We don't read much in the news of South and Central America and what our government has done to those countries. We don't get reporting on why Iran hates us so much because of Eisenhower's interference in a duly elected government back in the 1950s. We hear about Syrian refugees not being welcome but who in the hell caused them to be refugee? What about Iraq? It was our foreign policies that contributed to these problems.
What evidence do you have that people will not work if they have a state income? Have you lived in an inner city? Right now we have welfare for the rich. They control congress, they can do crimes and not go to jail, they buy influence and its getting worse. I average income of us 99 percenters have actually gone down, but not for the uber rich. Like it or not, they have declared war on the middle class and woe unto you if you try to fight them.
Where do these guys come from? Someone must be kicking over the rocks for them to escape into the wild. Why not tackle real issues like hunger, torture, spying on citizens, wars, military budgets, infrastructure, climate change, etc? All he is doing is opening up another rabbit hole for society to run down when we need to put our energy in extinguishing fires that other idiots have started.
Here is an example of policy makers and climate deniers ignoring science. These mega rich folks who funded politicians to fight the science should be forced to pay for their folly. We could have started sooner to lower our CO2 dumping into the atmosphere. This is not a problem that can be ignored to make it go away.
Medical care should be a right, not a for profit (or non-profit) business. Perhaps if we stopped interfering in other countries (going to war on false pretenses) we might have money to spend on medical care. How about medical training being paid for so that doctors getting out of medical schools aren't swamped with debt and have to charge higher prices. How about not buying the next greatest non-working weapon system and putting the money into health care. How many people are killed by stress from medical costs compared to the number killed by a terrorist attack in the US? What a fu***d system.
Really? Not a mistake? What is your evidence? How much has it cost the United States? How much has it cost the countries we invaded? What is the long term cost to our country?
Just look at what's happening under NAFTA. A Canadian Company (Trans Canada) is suing the US for 15 billion because we stopped the Keystone pipeline (http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/7/transcanada_sues_the_us_for_15b). This means that a private corporation from a TPP country can sue the US or another trade partner and have it tried by a panel corporate representatives. The amount can be not only the cost of a project, but also the expected profits. For example, with the Keystone lawsuit, the cost of the pipeline is 3 billion and the expected profits 12 billion. So the US taxpayers are on the hook for the 15 billion if TransCanada wins.
I would not. What evidence do you have that they would put restrictions on "free speech"? Internet access should be part of taxpayer paid services just like roads. If the politicians try to regulate free speech, throw them out.
What do you mean un American? Socialistic? So what? Right now we have corporate socialism, just look at the defense contractors. We have welfare for corporations. Why shouldn't the average citizen have some of their taxes pay for infrastructure such as broadband?
Ah, but someone can. Its been done to innocent people by the CIA, and they don't suffer any consequences for such behavior. Its part of the Imperial policy. Make a mistake, too bad, we got the wrong guy and tortured him.
Its the old revolving door, I worked in the defense industry back in the late 1950's and we had a retired general or some such muckety muck running our corporation. Lots of pork even then. Never seems to change for the better, only the worst. Revolving doors for the higher ups, just look at our former Attorney General who just left for his old job defending banks. They even kept his chair warm and better yet, no banksters of note went to jail.
After years of congress attacking federal workers, federal workers can't have the best moral. If you want good results from your government, you should treat them better. Right now congress makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy that government is bad so lets drown it in the bathtub. What competent person would go to work for the government under the conditions that congress has imposed on them in the last few years? Also every time a new administration is voted in, the new guys put their guys in at the top of the agencies, usually based on how these guys helped win the election rather than their qualifications for the job. What could possibly go wrong?
If Apple needs to make more money, a better return on their investment would be to send more folks to Wash DC to get special treatment passed by the congress critters rather than taking it out on the artists. That's an investment return that will outdo Wall Street by orders of magnitude.
People should make sure the CEOs of these companies that track you are in the database. Then follow them, photograph them and post it on google maps with date and time.
Your analog about the housing market is interesting. You probably had to pay and inflated price because the banks, mortgage companies and other financial institutions were shoving dodgy and sometimes illegal loans off on people who could not afford a house, but with the loans which were probably ARMs, they bought them anyway. This caused a big increase in housing prices and when all these folks went belly-up, the market collapsed. You probably were probably caught in this mess and now have a house that's underwater. Unfortunately, even though many of these loans would be considered crimes, no one goes to jail with this justice department. They have a revolving door with the banks so its not in the best interest for the prosecutors to go after these folks. They go after the smaller less wealthy people and whistle blowers who they can wear down financially.
This is certainly one of the motivations.,This article provides a lot of good links on the topic.
By combining anti-structuring laws with asset forfeiture the feds can steal most anything they'd like. There have been a lot of stories in recent years about small businesses that make frequent deposits under 10k getting their accounts and even their business siezed.
All without even an allegation of any criminal activity other than making deposits that are below the threshold for reporting. The drug warriors thought they were playing a game of gotcha with the drug kingpins. Nice work, geniuses....
Local police too can use civil forfeiture too for their own use. If you are driving and have "too much cash" they can seize it with the excuse you are probably a drug dealer and its up to you to try to go to court to get it back. These laws are way over the top. How about banks that launder money for the drug lords? No one goes to jail because they are WEALTHY and have connections in the right places. They pay a fine admit nothing and go about their business.
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Yes we should tast the bankers since we are always on the hook for bailing them out when the play in the casino. This country can't afford these folks and we need to know if they are drug users.
than all the millions of government employees who had their accounts hacked on government "secured" servers.
This guy is facing a 25 year prison sentence and yet banksters who took down our economy by their playing in the casino got no prison time. We have 2 kinds of justice in this country, one for the uber rich and one for the rest of us.
I find that all of them don't report what the really important things. Slashdot at least will often have something important while most of the news is just a pitch for some product. I don't find it slanted to the left at all, MSNBC doesn't have the power that Fox News has. I find the supposed left wing MSNBC a little to the right, but we all have different opinions. We don't read much in the news of South and Central America and what our government has done to those countries. We don't get reporting on why Iran hates us so much because of Eisenhower's interference in a duly elected government back in the 1950s. We hear about Syrian refugees not being welcome but who in the hell caused them to be refugee? What about Iraq? It was our foreign policies that contributed to these problems.
Lets hope he can stop the TPP
Remember a very large fraction of CEOs are psychopaths.
What evidence do you have that people will not work if they have a state income? Have you lived in an inner city? Right now we have welfare for the rich. They control congress, they can do crimes and not go to jail, they buy influence and its getting worse. I average income of us 99 percenters have actually gone down, but not for the uber rich. Like it or not, they have declared war on the middle class and woe unto you if you try to fight them.
Where do these guys come from? Someone must be kicking over the rocks for them to escape into the wild. Why not tackle real issues like hunger, torture, spying on citizens, wars, military budgets, infrastructure, climate change, etc? All he is doing is opening up another rabbit hole for society to run down when we need to put our energy in extinguishing fires that other idiots have started.
They sure did and as another poster said, they weren't even prosecuted.
Here is an example of policy makers and climate deniers ignoring science. These mega rich folks who funded politicians to fight the science should be forced to pay for their folly. We could have started sooner to lower our CO2 dumping into the atmosphere. This is not a problem that can be ignored to make it go away.
Flint Michigan comes to mind. Nothing can live in their water. I'm sure Michigan's head honcho would love it.
Medical care should be a right, not a for profit (or non-profit) business. Perhaps if we stopped interfering in other countries (going to war on false pretenses) we might have money to spend on medical care. How about medical training being paid for so that doctors getting out of medical schools aren't swamped with debt and have to charge higher prices. How about not buying the next greatest non-working weapon system and putting the money into health care. How many people are killed by stress from medical costs compared to the number killed by a terrorist attack in the US? What a fu***d system.
Really? Not a mistake? What is your evidence? How much has it cost the United States? How much has it cost the countries we invaded? What is the long term cost to our country?
Just look at what's happening under NAFTA. A Canadian Company (Trans Canada) is suing the US for 15 billion because we stopped the Keystone pipeline (http://www.democracynow.org/2016/1/7/transcanada_sues_the_us_for_15b). This means that a private corporation from a TPP country can sue the US or another trade partner and have it tried by a panel corporate representatives. The amount can be not only the cost of a project, but also the expected profits. For example, with the Keystone lawsuit, the cost of the pipeline is 3 billion and the expected profits 12 billion. So the US taxpayers are on the hook for the 15 billion if TransCanada wins.
I would not. What evidence do you have that they would put restrictions on "free speech"? Internet access should be part of taxpayer paid services just like roads. If the politicians try to regulate free speech, throw them out.
What do you mean un American? Socialistic? So what? Right now we have corporate socialism, just look at the defense contractors. We have welfare for corporations. Why shouldn't the average citizen have some of their taxes pay for infrastructure such as broadband?
Ah, but someone can. Its been done to innocent people by the CIA, and they don't suffer any consequences for such behavior. Its part of the Imperial policy. Make a mistake, too bad, we got the wrong guy and tortured him.
Its the old revolving door, I worked in the defense industry back in the late 1950's and we had a retired general or some such muckety muck running our corporation. Lots of pork even then. Never seems to change for the better, only the worst. Revolving doors for the higher ups, just look at our former Attorney General who just left for his old job defending banks. They even kept his chair warm and better yet, no banksters of note went to jail.
After years of congress attacking federal workers, federal workers can't have the best moral. If you want good results from your government, you should treat them better. Right now congress makes it a self-fulfilling prophecy that government is bad so lets drown it in the bathtub. What competent person would go to work for the government under the conditions that congress has imposed on them in the last few years? Also every time a new administration is voted in, the new guys put their guys in at the top of the agencies, usually based on how these guys helped win the election rather than their qualifications for the job. What could possibly go wrong?
Sign me up too, I would like to get the A-holes who call me when I'm asleep using my own number showing me as the caller.
If Apple needs to make more money, a better return on their investment would be to send more folks to Wash DC to get special treatment passed by the congress critters rather than taking it out on the artists. That's an investment return that will outdo Wall Street by orders of magnitude.
People should make sure the CEOs of these companies that track you are in the database. Then follow them, photograph them and post it on google maps with date and time.
Your analog about the housing market is interesting. You probably had to pay and inflated price because the banks, mortgage companies and other financial institutions were shoving dodgy and sometimes illegal loans off on people who could not afford a house, but with the loans which were probably ARMs, they bought them anyway. This caused a big increase in housing prices and when all these folks went belly-up, the market collapsed. You probably were probably caught in this mess and now have a house that's underwater. Unfortunately, even though many of these loans would be considered crimes, no one goes to jail with this justice department. They have a revolving door with the banks so its not in the best interest for the prosecutors to go after these folks. They go after the smaller less wealthy people and whistle blowers who they can wear down financially.
I think a double kudo for this comment."Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak..." wonderful
This is certainly one of the motivations. ,This article provides a lot of good links on the topic.
By combining anti-structuring laws with asset forfeiture the feds can steal most anything they'd like. There have been a lot of stories in recent years about small businesses that make frequent deposits under 10k getting their accounts and even their business siezed.
All without even an allegation of any criminal activity other than making deposits that are below the threshold for reporting. The drug warriors thought they were playing a game of gotcha with the drug kingpins. Nice work, geniuses....
Local police too can use civil forfeiture too for their own use. If you are driving and have "too much cash" they can seize it with the excuse you are probably a drug dealer and its up to you to try to go to court to get it back. These laws are way over the top. How about banks that launder money for the drug lords? No one goes to jail because they are WEALTHY and have connections in the right places. They pay a fine admit nothing and go about their business.