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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:51:35 +0200
From: Christian Sciberras <uuf6429@...il.com>
To: noloader@...il.com
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: [OT] the nigger said: "American people
understand that not everybody's been following the rules"
Darren's and indeed many other people's lame excuse is that they're too
humble to be greedy. As if!
If anything, most people are greedier than that 1%. The only difference is
that people are bad at it, unlike that 1%.
Just consider the fact that Average Joe would be just too happy to evade
tax.
Richer Joe, instead, might be doing the same with his $1bn business.
In both cases, they're breaking the law.
The "occupy wallstreet" movement is simply hypocrisy.
Did I happen to mention that I'm far from rich? In the coming years, I'll be
struggling to get my own drop of land.
The only unfair part I see is people complaining while buying iPads and
iCrap over Facebook, Twitter etc..
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Darren Martyn
> <d.martyn.fulldisclosure@...il.com> wrote:
> > Chris - Empathy, guilt, and morals. Guilt being a major factor. The
> > possibility was always there to make millions via evil means, but morals
> and
> > knowing it would be hard to live with.
> >
> > The problem is not getting lots of money. That is the easy part. The
> issue
> > is with living with yourself afterward.
> How about illegal? Check out the Hobbs Act [1]. I'm not making this
> crap up - the US has laws on the books for negatively affecting
> commerce (which the crash did), and using fear to peddle their warez
> (how financial institutions market their instruments). There's
> probably provisions in the PATRIOT Act, too.
>
> The last tine I checked (about a year ago), the SEC had opened fewer
> than 100 civil investigations. No criminal investigations, despite the
> fact that some of the financial institutions created spurious ratings
> companies just to rate their instruments 'good'.
>
> Jeff
>
> [1]
> http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/title9/131mcrm.htm
>
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bob Dobbs <bobd10937@...il.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader@...il.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Who are the real threats to the US: terrorist who try to dream up ways
> >>> to do the US harm, or Corporate and Congress which does the US harm?
> >>
> >> I hate to contribute to an off-topic thread but you've successfully
> >> trolled me here: Congress has done FAR more harm to the US than
> terrorists
> >> over the last 10 years by just about every measure.
>
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