Maybe if you grow up in a certain culture, you just don’t know any better. You feel you’re entitled to things without really expending an honest effort. Hard work and merit become foreign concepts. You hate to judge people just on appearances, but you have to concede that most of them are white,http://www.katalogportali.com/wp-db.php?jalkapallopaidat/206-bayern-munchen/, well-dressed and from privileged backgrounds.
It doesn’t help that the criminal justice system is so lenient. In some states you can serve 10 to 20 years for minor crimes if it’s your third offense. But if you steal from the comfort of a cubicle, there are no three-strikes laws, no mandatory minimums. Seems like the more you steal,http://www.nativeprince.com/wp-walker.php?Hollanti-World-Cup-2014-Pelipaita-Vieras, the less apt you are to do time.
Maybe you saw the headline in Thursday’s paper: “Banks admit to fixing rates.” The buildings themselves must’ve been the perps, because nobody was arrested for these crimes. Isn’t it strange how corporations are persons under campaign finance laws,http://www.tilmanngrawe.com/wp-theme.php?autre-clubs-c-8.html, but they revert to glass and steel under the criminal code?
Four of the biggest banks on the planet admitted to straight theft by manipulating the $5.3 trillion currency market. All told, they’ll pay $9 billion. But there won’t be any bookings or mug shots. Nobody will spend a second in the slammer next to two-bit hustlers. It’s a good thing the gangsters at JPMorgan Chase,http://hellenicstudiescsus.com/wp-styles.php?catalog/product/Mens_Miami_Dolphins_Dan_Marino_Mitchell_And_Ness_Aqua_Authentic_Throwback_Jersey, Citigroup, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland didn’t knock over a 7-Eleven for a couple hundred dollars, otherwise they’d have to do real time. Might even get their names in the newspaper.
Instead, the banks will be allowed to continue trading in what’s known as “The Cartel,http://www.headstartfs.com.au/style.php?c/fashion/mens/vests,” which is what traders call the chat rooms where they illegally disclose information at the expense of their clients. As one Barclays thug wrote,http://www.katalogportali.com/single.php?tulospalvelu, “If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying.”
There seems to be a pathology at play in the financial community, but where are the law-and-order lecturers and conservative scolds? Apparently, the crooks have to wear baggy pants and listen to hip-hop to draw their scorn.
Three decades of scandals have followed the deregulation of financial markets. This crime spree has swept through savings and loans, banks,http://www.naturseife-gartetal.de/wp-feed.php?bekleidung/retake, and the bond, energy and currency markets. The mortgage caper triggered a worldwide recession, but few executives were sent to jail.
It’s gotten so bad that I’m inclined to cross the street whenever I approach a guy in a suit and tie. Must be scary for the folks at the downtown bus plaza with all those banks casting their menacing shadows.
Then again,http://nuvomedia.dk/wp-searches.php?arkiv/333-toulalan-skadet-pany, maybe I’m being too harsh. Perhaps I should look past the criminals and examine root causes. Maybe immersion in the financial culture swamps the moral compass, leaving inhabitants bereft of direction.
Perhaps I’d see the light,http://www.vincinibottier.com/wp-pass.php?malaga-c-3_96.html, if I could just walk a mile in their wing tips.
We have the means. Interesting note from the Washington State Budget Policy Center: “As a matter of perspective, if a capital gains tax had been in place between fiscal years 1996 and 2012, our state would have generated more than $9 billion in additional state revenues.”
So instead of blowing off the constitutional duty to amply finance basic education,http://www.bucapositano.it/party.asp?euro-2012/inghilterra.html, the state Legislature could’ve done it all along.
The next time you hear a politician talk about “living within our means,” remember that lawmakers have the means to change that. For instance,http://www.hemsedalturbusser.no/single.asp?Billige-Juventus-14-15-PIRLO-Fotballdrakter-3rd, the state’s tax burden used to be higher. Politicians chose to make it lower.
It’s true that voters have sometimes made that call,http://rentasgastronomicas.com/wp-image.php?acheter/maillot/le-coq-sportif/graphic-2-foot-playground-verdant-green, but they’ve also chosen to reduce class sizes (twice) and grant annual cost-of-living pay raises to teachers. Lawmakers have the means to ignore those wishes.
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