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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (40540)	9/19/2005 12:37:28 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"Got your Communist Party membership card yet?" I've always been a bitter foe of communism. "I got a dollar. You want it. Why should give it to you for no interest and take the risk you will not repay?" You should not. I was talking about how the casino scam works. No matter how many noises or lights they put on a machine, the principle remains unchanged: Pay back less than the proper odds. And I'm NOT saying they shouldn't do that. But by not giving value for value they guarantee themselves millions in profits. They damn well ought to do that if they want to get ahead. So, in a casino there are "games" where they give you back .99 when you give them a dollar--and games where they give you back .80 when you give them a dollar. In popular parlance, we call this the probability or odds of a game. Most people have no clue as to what is going on. They are just "gambling". My point was that behind all the fanfare and noise and lights and creatures running across the screen...NOTHING is going on. Somebody is just making change for a dollar and leaving out a few cents. I'm not saying they should be sent to Siberia for this so you can hold on to the Communist card! I am saying that if you are going to willingly take short change on a dollar, then lose a penny--not a dime. It also speaks to why we hire laborers in China to make sneakers...but I have explained enough I think for now.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (40540)	9/19/2005 1:34:47 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

COMMENTS?---Is Corporate Fraud Really Worse than Rape? Part-Time Pundit ^ \| 9/19/05 \| John Bambenek Two Tyco execs were just sentenced to 25 years for their corruption and embezzlement of corporate funds. Ebbers, for his WorldCom fraud also got 25 years. The sentence calls to mind the magnitude of corporate criminals compared to other more heinous crimes. Take the case of Joesph Edward Duncan III who raped and tortured a 14 year old boy at gunpoint and received a 20 year sentence, 5 years shorter than the Tyco execs. How about John Wesley, who after being convicted in 2004 for child molestation while out on probation is back in jail for harassing a 7 and 8 year old girl. Or Mary Letourneau who served only a 7 year sentence for raping a 13 year-old child while she was his teacher. Can someone explain the rationale for sentencing someone who defrauded stock holders harsher than rapists? Is there anyone out there who would care to argue that corporate corruption is worse than rape? There are those that think even life without parole is too much for murders, rapists and the like, but no punishment seems to be enough for corporate criminals. Why is this? It is part of the rich-poor class warfare stoked by the left. If you are rich, you should be punished. Instead of simply having more modest sentences with hefty restitution and fines, they get sentences harder than the ACLU would ever stand for a rapist to be sentenced for.