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Colorado empties popular lake to pay its water bill http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8816656/Colorado-empties-popular-lake-to-pay-its-water-bill.html and so on. Your tax $$$ go to bailouts On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Ivan . <[email protected]> wrote: > fast and furious > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC2C2lIwNSA > > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Christian Sciberras <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Darren Martyn >>> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> >>> >> 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. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >>> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >>> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. >> Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html >> Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ >> > >
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