AFFLUENZA

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The tory cunts in the UK are cutting legal aid for poorer people so we are heading more down the route of the US.

If you can afford the best lawyers you get off whether you are innocent or guilty.

If you are rich you are eccentric if you are poor you are crazy. If you can use being rich as an excuse for your actions surely you can use being poor as an excuse for your actions?

Or as usual is it a case of “sorry the door doesn't swing both ways”

You guys haven't quite jumped the shark yet though you are powering up for it.

John Corzine led MF Global into bankruptcy. As it went under depositor money and gold somehow "slipped through the cracks" and ended up in bonuses and at JP Morgan. The gold was owned outright by depositors who had paid exorbitant "dusting fees" on it for decades. Yet it disappeared and the bosses at MF Global all "made out like bandits" despite having driven it to failure.

Fortunately most depositors have since been made mostly whole but no one was ever charged with wrong doing and no money was returned by the principles, to my knowledge. Corzine himself got a big promotion and is now handling the finances of the US, I believe.

There is no accountability. If you steal $10 you might spend 20 years in prison but if you steal 10 million you don't even have to give it back and now days there are almost no taxes sao most of it is free and clear even if you don't have an account in the Caymans. We reward greed and gambling by banks that are too big to fail and knuckle under to their threats to destroy the economy. We encourage the destruction of free enterprise because millions can be made when businesses fail. With no taxes on large amounts of money we encourage the concentration of resources in the hands of those who will do anything to make ever more. Meanwhile quality of products and services continues to fall at alarming rates.

Never have so few had so much while everything is falling apart and they aren't responsible.