I will never understand why, when rich people rip us off, they pay a fine

[SoCalDem]

TO THE GOVERNMENT... But when poor people rob us, they do hard time..

No one wants to be robbed, but I will never understand why rich folks are allowed to rip off their "customers" and instead of being forced to pay back the people they stole from, they get a "huge" fine and a slap on the wrist..

Lou Dobbs had some story on..only caught the last bit, but someone was being forced to pay a 6 million dollar fine.. The guy stole 10 times that amount, and other than the "fine", he's home free..

I am not vindictive, but I would sure like to see everything that man owns sold at auction and all the money divvied up between the people he stole from.. The crime he committed was a crime against THEM first and the state SECOND..

Michael Milkin is an example of this.. He scammed old people out of their life savings, did a little time, and now that he's a philanthropist, he's back in good graces.. Did he ever pay back all those people?? Hell no..

The taxpayers ate it, and even then they "investors" got pennies on the dollar.. We got soaked for BILLIONS.. Neil Bush was in on that little gem too..

Nothing ever changes.. Sometimes I think that the whole investment thing is just a freewheeling game of real life Monopoly, and there are no rules.. The little guy gets screwed 99% of the time.. We might all be better off just stashing our money under the mattress :)

[ikojo]

1. It's the CHIP principal...class has its privileges

Since the wealthy make huge campaign contributions they can pretty much write the laws to benefit themselves.

Rich folk like Michael Milken (and OJ Simpson) can also afford very good lawyers whcih also helps keep them from going to a real prison or prison at all.


Oh but when one brings up the advantages the rich have one is said to be engaging in class warfare and that's a no no in a supposedly classless society.


:argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh:

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. If we were to put fairness back into the law, the results

would be demoralizing for the rich, white folk. Imagine what would happen:

1) Increased arrests for white collar crime would result in an increase in the number of white prisoners in jail and, soon, the statistics of prison inmates, racially, would resemble that of the population.

2) Once the prison population resembles that of the outer population, the conservatives would no longer have grounds to target minorities because the definition of "high crime area" would change based on arrest statistics. The new "high crime area" will be Wall Street and life, as we know it, will dissolve into chaos when caucasians wearing $2000.00 Armani suits are pulled over for stop and frisks, since they fit the established profile of a white collar criminal.

3) The political backlash from whites will be so strong, that the Supreme Court, in order to be fair, does away with profiling for all people, white and black. And regulatory agencies will be given more power to audit corporations to avoid the explosive corruption that occurs during periods of self-regulation.

<Coffee break> :donut:

[Brewman_Jax]

3. Absolutely!

Were the law enforced equally, the caste system would be destroyed, at least crippled, in less than a generation.