So is the lack of legitimate recourse when people willfully ruin millions of lives. History tells us that eventually the mob wins out, and the people whose necks are on the line don't seem to care enough about that to change. I just wish we could get it over with so I can stop worrying about it.
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Wallstreet: We didn't benefit enough from the bailouts, so we are suing the US Gov
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These people have destroyed lives without paying the price.
Posts like those are right.
exmachina64
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Republicans will make sure that never happens.
Fox Mulder
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Lol, they'll just make empty campaign promises to their bases like they always do. Both parties have hands of wall street and corporations up their ass.
Captain_Spanky
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These are the shareholders, not the actual companies that took the bailouts.
Don't remind me. Where did i put that bottle of JW
old manatee
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Damn that makes me want to riot in the streets.
Some of them getting killed seems like the only way these people will understand they aren't invincible. They will never care that they ruin the lives of millions, that they have possibly ruined a generation of kids in america and probably world wide. At this point society has to give them something to fear.
Tal Shiar Agent
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Our elections don't really matter beyond the surface of things like social issues. At the core, both Republicans and Democrats are oligarchs.
Gerrymandering and voter suppression ensures that votes mean nothing. We don't live in a democracy, it's more like the pseudo-totalitarian corporate state of the United States in the Fallout universe, just not as open about it.
Instead of the Red Menace, it's the Brown Menace.
Let me guess, people should continue to peacefully protest and vote right?
ClosingADoor
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If the alternative is literally hanging people in the streets, yes.
afternoon delight
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Corrupt to the fucking core.
Also, I'm pro-guillotine, which is watch list material probably.
Also, I'm pro-guillotine, which is watch list material probably.
jimbobsmells
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Lol not surprised Greenburg is involved.
BlackLagoon
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It certainly seems like just nationalizing the banks, getting them back on their feet, and selling them off at a profit would have been a much cleaner and straight forward approach. It's what Scandinavia did during the banking crisis in the late 80s, and it worked quite well. Here you had Congress going though all sorts of complicated legal contortions to avoid "GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF THE BANKS!", and it's just ended up as a flawed, overly complex mess.
Junior Mint
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Maybe America will learn its lesson from this. I doubt it though.
Guillotines worked out so well last time, amirite?
Theonik
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They worked pretty fantastically if you ask me.
These is why you should never try to help people.
Uh, why isn't Warren running again? : (
The correct answer should be something like "Sure, ok. Top bracket income tax is now 65%, capital gains included. Have fun"
ten years if misbehavior is suspected.
The correct answer should be something like "Sure, ok. Top bracket income tax is now 65%, capital gains included. Have fun"
Generally five years back [from questionable return] to examine, though it might be seven depending on what it's for.
ten years if misbehavior is suspected.
Ether_Snake
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Let's see someone here try to avoid paying 10$ in due taxes.
afternoon delight
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I find your lack of faith disturbing. [force choke]
And I mean, the alternatives seem to be prison sentences they avoid or serve in slippers, or fines that are less than what they stole.
Can Crusher
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These idiots will keep stretching it until it breaks and find themselves begging for their lives.
afternoon delight
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Naive. Triggered a world collapse and not a single person went to jail. Citizens United co-opting the fucking Supreme Court. TPP. Lobbyists. Off shore currency channels. Transnational pressure to undermine government regulations with operating budgets larger than some countries output.
I ask what could they possibly do to earn more distrust.
XOMTOR
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Not Wall Street, it's the shareholders that are pursuing legal action and in the case of Fannie and Freddie, they have every right to do do.
Long story short, the government puller a Darth Vader and changed the terms of the deal on both firms and shareholders want them to be held accountable for it.
Long story short, the government puller a Darth Vader and changed the terms of the deal on both firms and shareholders want them to be held accountable for it.
The shareholders should have held the banks accountable too. Preferably prior to them fucking everyone else. But their only interest was their ROI.
So fuck'em.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Time to destroy Wall Street. Fuck these guys. They got more from the stimulus and bailout than everyone else put together, and they're still bitching for more? Damn welfare bums.
Drop dead, Wall Street.
Drop dead, Wall Street.
And Democrats. People need to stop being so naive and think dems arent being bought as well.
Black Republican
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fuck outta here
Mr. Giggles
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Sometimes I really think there's a secret penthouse meeting room plastered with 100$ bills where they congregate and plot.
So people should all just keep getting fucked? Ok.
One way or another, it's coming. Just a matter of time.
I dislike Republicans as much as many people here but Democrats aren't going to do that either. You'd need an entire Congress full of Bernie Sander and Elizabeth Warren types for that to happen.
DoktorEvil
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Hyperbolic to say the least.
At long as the Fed. Reserve and FDIC exists, there will be no runs on consumer banks, but if President Obama and Eric Holder couldn't find any malfeasance, what makes you think that the next President will?
Poodlestrike
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The problem with prosecuting them is that proving actual malfeasance in a case like this is really, really hard. Ultimately, financial regulations aren't really equipped to handle the equivalent of wilful endangerment and/or negligent homicide, so demonstrating their incompetence and general uncaring attitudes on a personal level doesn't do a lot of good.
Also, let's tone down the calls for people's actual heads, yeah? That tends to end poorly.
Also, let's tone down the calls for people's actual heads, yeah? That tends to end poorly.
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