This article. A dramatic summary, for your pleasure:
Some years ago:
Government: "Hey, here's some money for banks."
Goldman, Morgan Stanley: "WHOOOA, there partner, we're banks! Right here."
Present day:
Government: "Hey, so we're not gonna allow banks to perform proprietary training with their own capital."
Goldman, Morgan Stanley: "WE ARE...DEFINITELY not a bank, come on, HAH. No."
Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
Thursday, October 13, 2011
I gotta say, it warms my heart to see rich, complacent people scared.
So far, that's the most enjoyment I've been getting out of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The problem I have with them is that they seem more like a wildfire: aimless, formless, frightening, though some good may come of it.
I think they are, like the Tea Party, primarily motivated by this nameless, formless outrage, although I personally think that their goals are far less full of derp. But the thing is, like the Tea Party, any hopes they have of achieving change will need to be met with the force and unity of spirit. The Tea Party had that, but its goals were effectively time-travel. No matter how hard they wanted to, they would not make the U.S. go back to the 18th century without serious societal change (read: apocalyptic breakdown). The Occupy movement, far from fighting the inertia of time, is fighting the inertia of entrenched power...they are fighting an enemy that is multifarious and creeping, that has made a life goal of infecting and permeating as many systems as possible.
But I believe it is an enemy that must be taken down to size, restrained. Like all bacteria, it can be good or bad, and right now, it's leaned towards "abusive". And that's why I'm posting this series of charts from the website Business Insider. It's a rather sobering and more importantly informative look at exactly what we're fighting for, and what stakes the combatants have.
I think they are, like the Tea Party, primarily motivated by this nameless, formless outrage, although I personally think that their goals are far less full of derp. But the thing is, like the Tea Party, any hopes they have of achieving change will need to be met with the force and unity of spirit. The Tea Party had that, but its goals were effectively time-travel. No matter how hard they wanted to, they would not make the U.S. go back to the 18th century without serious societal change (read: apocalyptic breakdown). The Occupy movement, far from fighting the inertia of time, is fighting the inertia of entrenched power...they are fighting an enemy that is multifarious and creeping, that has made a life goal of infecting and permeating as many systems as possible.
But I believe it is an enemy that must be taken down to size, restrained. Like all bacteria, it can be good or bad, and right now, it's leaned towards "abusive". And that's why I'm posting this series of charts from the website Business Insider. It's a rather sobering and more importantly informative look at exactly what we're fighting for, and what stakes the combatants have.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Double Standards
Check 'em.
It's almost a damn joke. A Baltimore cop who shoots an unarmed man while off duty, KILLING HIM, gets 15 years in prison.
Meanwhile, a guy in Baltimore who shoots at police officers, NOT HITTING THEM, mind you, gets 5 consecutive life sentences, 6 concurrent life sentences, 80 years consecutive and 38 years concurrent, with no chance of parole for 65 years.
Shootin' at cops is bad, m'kay? But it doesn't make you Hitler Mk. II, and that (or remaking Casablanca) is the only thing I would consider worthy of 11 LIFE SENTENCES and 118 more years after that.
It's gotta be a joke. Our reality must be part of some satirical work, because there's no way that's actually a thing. I refuse to believe our justice system is that insane.
It's almost a damn joke. A Baltimore cop who shoots an unarmed man while off duty, KILLING HIM, gets 15 years in prison.
Meanwhile, a guy in Baltimore who shoots at police officers, NOT HITTING THEM, mind you, gets 5 consecutive life sentences, 6 concurrent life sentences, 80 years consecutive and 38 years concurrent, with no chance of parole for 65 years.
Shootin' at cops is bad, m'kay? But it doesn't make you Hitler Mk. II, and that (or remaking Casablanca) is the only thing I would consider worthy of 11 LIFE SENTENCES and 118 more years after that.
It's gotta be a joke. Our reality must be part of some satirical work, because there's no way that's actually a thing. I refuse to believe our justice system is that insane.
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