key2thecup Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH9rQ7peDZY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyledude Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 If corporations were people, this one would be in jail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Water wet, sky is blue, big finance is corrupt. And if you think they're bad now, just wait another 20 years when technological advances will make them utterly unaccountable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Water wet, sky is blue, big finance is corrupt. And if you think they're bad now, just wait another 20 years when technological advances will make them utterly unaccountable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Wecoaster must have killed has Sunday bottle of scotch if he thinks the banking elite aren't the single most powerful group of people in the world, don't benefit from circumstances that are detrimental to the rest of us, and that technological advancements of all kinds aren't going to replace human labor to an ever increasing degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Wecoaster must have killed has Sunday bottle of scotch if he thinks the banking elite aren't the single most powerful group of people in the world, don't benefit from circumstances that are detrimental to the rest of us, and that technological advancements of all kinds aren't going to replace human labor to an ever increasing degree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electro Rock Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Are you wearing you Sunday go to meeting tin foil hat? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 No, I'm wearing the superhero costume of my alter-ego, Captain Obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucks since 77 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 No, I'm wearing the superhero costume of my alter-ego, Captain Obvious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Can I be your sidekick? How does Corporal Apparent sound? If not can I at least have your autograph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 A corrupt bank.....no way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucks since 77 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 It would look something like this.eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Better than looking like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck_trevor16 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 a real life version of "The International?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_International_(film) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Sorry I do not understand the reference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetcoaster Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Something to do with you being a lawyer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
key2thecup Posted March 7, 2013 Author Share Posted March 7, 2013 Oh if we charge them it would have a negative effect on the economy so the banks can do whatever they want, too big to fail & too big to prosecute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zwhp5-jXA Eric Holder Admits Some Banks Are Just Too Big To Prosecute When the Attorney General of the United States admits some banks are simply too big to prosecute, it might be time to admit we have a problem -- and that goes for both the financial and justice systems. Eric Holder made this rather startling confession in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, The Hill reports. It could be a key moment in the debate over whether to do something about the size and complexity of our biggest banks, which have only gotten bigger and more systemically important since the financial crisis. "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if you do prosecute, if you do bring a criminal charge, it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy," Holder said, according to The Hill. "And I think that is a function of the fact that some of these institutions have become too large." Holder's comments don't come as a total surprise. His underlings had already made similar confessions to The New York Times last year, after they declined to prosecute HSBC for flagrant, years-long violations of money-laundering laws, out of fear that doing so would hurt the global economy. Lanny Breuer, formerly in charge of doling out the Justice Department's wrist slaps to banks, told Frontline as much in the documentary "The Untouchables," which aired in January. Some observers have defended the Justice Department, suggesting that prosecuting law-breaking banks would amount to a death penalty that could upset the financial system and trigger another recession -- although nobody really knows if it would do any such thing. But by not prosecuting law-breaking banks, and confessing to its terror of prosecuting those banks, the Justice Department has waved a big checkered flag to the biggest banks to go ahead and break all of the laws they want. Holder's confession comes after several weeks of criticism from lawmakers about the Justice Department's failure to prosecute banks not only for potentially hard-to-prove cases involving the financial crisis, but also for cases in which proof wasn't as hard to find, as in HSBC's case. It is significant that Holder's confession -- cry for help, really -- comes at the one place that could possibly help, the U.S. Congress. So now you have the Obama administration joining a growing, bipartisan group of lawmakers speaking out about the problem of banks being too big to fail and/or jail. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and David Vitter (R-La.) last week announced they were working together on bipartisan legislation to address it. That doesn't mean you should hold your breath for anything to be done about it right away, or ever. It is far easier to talk about breaking up the big banks than to do it, particularly given that they will lobby hard against it every step of the way. But the tide of public opinion is turning against them a little more every day. http://www.huffingto..._n_2821741.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buggernut Posted March 7, 2013 Share Posted March 7, 2013 ^ Time to get the Occupy protests up and running again. They had quite a legitimate cause that wasn't resolved after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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