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Village Idiot · 07-03-2009, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by knight13

It's funny that they put a 71 year old man in prison for stealing money, but some people commit worse crimes and they are out in a few years. I mean that guy loosing all his money and his reputation would have been punishment enough especially when you go from being filthy rich to having nothing.

The man stole billions, many people lost everything because of his intentional deceit. The courts were making an example of him no doubt, but any reasonable sentence would have outlasted him so it hardly matters.

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Originally Posted by adamdecaf

Well, a solution exists, but it's to radical for anyone to fully back. (It involves a complete overthrow and a whole social and economic change that would last all of a night.)

I'm not kidding there are plans in the work by groups to overthrow everything in America.

There always have been, they are not presenting anything new. I question those people as much as I do the men in place at the moment.

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Originally Posted by Orc

Sadly, Madoff was only one of the many ponzi schemes that is corrupting our government, there really is no stopping the big banking families and oil industries.

I'm not sure I follow your logic. Madoff's ponzi scheme was done by a private business, the government had no hand in it. I also don't understand how there are "many ponzi schemes that are corrupting our government" nor how that directly relates to banking famalies or the oil industry.

I don't dispute that there are many more corrupt bastards out there, but a ponzi scheme is a specific type of scam that simulates a high return investment.