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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (53213)	9/11/2013 1:58:18 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 85487

The U.S. is still the greatest country on the planet - take away the unions and the zeros and it would really shine.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (53213)	9/11/2013 3:06:17 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	2 Recommendations Recommended By sm1th TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

so, other than bitching about it, what do you want to do about it? Since you don't seem to understand that you can't legally punish an entity that has not violated any laws are you planning on kidnapping corporate execs and then lining them up and shooting them? Who gets to define who receives arbitrary punishment for the arbitrarily defined "bad thing"? Who gets to define what the punishment is? You?......LOL The fact is, if there were actual laws being broken, the person accepting the bribe is more culpable than the person who is offering the bribe. Notice that I didn't say "completely culpable"...just "more". And the reason for this is that our elected officials and government employees have a fiduciary duty to the taxpayer. It's kinda like adultery. If a married man is having an affair with a single woman, from the man's wife's perspective he is far more culpable for the action than the single woman. Sure the single woman who seduced the married man isn't going to win any awards for her actions, but it is the married man who made a vow and had a responsibility to maintain that vow to his wife. In this little example, the single seductress is Goldman Sachs, the married man is our government and politicians and the taxpayers are the wife of the married man. So who do you go after? the seductress? Nah, you cut the man's balls off, or divorce him or put him on a really short leash. I guess in your world you would go after the single woman. I mean...how could the married man say "no" to that? Certainly can't blame him for going after some fresh trim, eh?