Reply #5: I see...

[ljm2002]

...so in your moral universe, we are to follow the letter of the law only if it does not affect pension funds adversely. So the way it works out is, it's the letter of the law for you and me, bub, but not for the banksters because their wrongdoing was cleverly intertwined with the financial structures of the whole society. So now they can claim "you can't do anything to unravel this -- why, it might hurt Grandma!"

But see, here's the thing. When the whole damned edifice is rotten, it hurts Grandma and all the rest of us already. Well, except for the super rich who seem to get on just fine, thank you, especially when they never have to account for their ill-gotten gains.

I'll take my chances on the rule of law being applied evenly to EVERYONE, thank you very much. Pension funds don't seem to be all that safe these days anyway. Seems every time a good part of the work force reaches retirement age in companies with pensions, the company conveniently declares bankruptcy and the first thing to go is the pensions. Yes I know you mentioned public pension funds, so you could bring up another bugaboo of potentially higher taxes. Yawn.

I'm totally through listening to scare tactics like "Oooh, if you hold the banksters accountable, then someone might get hurt!" Well guess what, many people have already been hurt by the system we have in place. They just keep tightening the screws, and telling us if we squawk that it would be worse if we got our way. Well you know what? Let's try it another way for awhile, this way ain't working.