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To: TobagoJack who wrote (73062)	4/13/2011 1:16:09 AM
From: marcher	Respond to of 219658

"-are people literally just do not know, cannot care, or just powerless to extract amends?-" the third degree -ng-

To: TobagoJack who wrote (73062)	4/13/2011 1:31:37 AM
From: Canuck Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219658

And they bill the family for the bullet. I don't believe in capital punishment, but that touch is quite exquisite. CD

To: TobagoJack who wrote (73062)	4/13/2011 7:56:50 AM
From: carranza2	3 Recommendations Respond to of 219658

is that news making the rounds on main street usa media? i am puzzled ... where is the outrage? I bombard some of my friends with this kind of stuff, suggesting that they should indeed be outraged. I sent the Mack bimbette piece out to about 10 people whose opinions I am trying to influence. One response, the single word "funny." In fact, I think my friends, as tolerant as they are, believe I am turning into some sort of kook. Thank God I have no problem seeing things with an independent eye, otherwise I might well be a part of a great gray mass.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (73062)	4/13/2011 9:19:21 AM
From: No Mo Mo	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219658

Excellent questions. No, this kind of thing gets little or no play at all by the mainstream media. Apart from the occasional person who steps out of line and gets made examples of (Madoff - he stiffed other RICH people, Martha Stewart, Mark Cuban, etc.) the media will not go after the very wealthy. Also, when this news comes from a music/pop culture magazine, it's de facto marginalized. Enforcement in the financial industry is 'captured' and will not do its job. Taibbi explained that in his last piece: rollingstone.com The vast majority of my friends and acquaintances don't closely follow politics and follow financial/economic matters even less. People are willfully ignorant. And I live in liberal San Francisco with all friends either degreed or multi-degreed, for whatever that may be worth. I also think the scale and audacity of this theft leaves people in disbelief. "How could anyone get away with something like that if it were true?" It's much easier to get their heads around a city manager who pads his pay and pension e.g. latimesblogs.latimes.com Apart from the above, it's bread and circuses. Like Carranza, my friends increasingly think I'm a paranoid, cranky kook that reads too much gloomy stuff on the Internet. Here is a good video interview w/ Taibbi after his February piece: democracynow.org