Reply #334: Being rich, in and of itself, is not a crime...

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Not everyone who is rich is a criminal. All it takes is a few that are above the law.

How does it make sense that billions of dollars disappear and no one even bothers to look for it?

Take just one minuscule crime, for example the disappearance of 360 tons of money in Iraq.

360 tons!



http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06312951.htm

Mid-2003:

A reporter in Iraq stands on a pallet filled with shrink-wrapped bricks of C-Notes

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2006/10/04/its-ok-to-vote-for-foley-florida-elections-officials-say/?p=4583


It's gone and nobody is even looking for it. Every $100 billion of taxpayer money that goes missing is about $1000 per taxpayer, assuming 100 million taxpayers.

Who do you think should be held responsible, the working poor?

What about the trillions missing from the Pentagon or from the TARP?


I'd be perfectly fine if everybody had to earn a living, just like in your fantasy world. Only that isn't the real world as it exists today.

The Uberwealthy just buy up governments and law enforcement and then rob everyone blind with no consequences. These are the folks who need to be stopped. If it takes knocking everyone in that class down a peg or two to do it, then so be it. They don't seem to be able to police themselves, they don't even think they should try.

Economic justice isn't just a philosophical concept, although you seem to think this is all just some kind of ideological whining and ranting.

I'm trying to talk about the reality of the situation we find ourselves in, and you'd rather go on about some fantasy world where everyone works for a living. Where is this idological Utopia that you keep going on about? I don't think it's in this country.

Criminal cronyism is wrong, legally and morally, and I defy you to define the difference between organized crime, the corporate state, or government. There isn't any real distinction any more, these enterprises have merged together and many of the same individuals are known to be involved in all three.

Why do you think it is ok for some people to be born into privilege and never have to work? How does that fit with your theory that everyone has to work? I can't really make sense of what you believe in, but it doesn't represent the real world, either currently or any time in recorded history. There has always been a class war of some sort or another, and we are loosing this fight right now.

Drastic measures may need to be taken before things deteriorate even further. The longer we wait, the worse the cure.