have access to Obama's telephone records.. what would it tell us if we knew every number he called, every number that called him and the duration of each call.
I mean if it's okay for him to surveil us like that, then shouldn't we have the same rights?
That ended when Bush and his corprocratic cronies took over power in Washington, bonused themselves and their CEO buddies up the ass and basically gave the corporations carte blanche to run roughshod all over the rights of the individual the best interest of the shareholders and the economy in general. They all knew that they were on a short fuse and now that it's burned up and blown apart they leave the rest of us with little choice but to pick up the pieces and put dumpty dumb and his bro's back together again.
Bush's big mistake was simply that the bomb blew up a couple of months too early, otherwise he would have been out of office and able to blame all these problems on the administration that inherited them.
It's a freaking joke that the CEO's that ran their companies into the ground not only haven't been indited but that they are generally exiting with all their executive compensation and multimillion dollar golden parachutes intact.
Worse, for the most part these aren't the CEO's that actually founded these companies and were thus responsible for the job creation associated with these big firms but were simply professional CEO's that were excessively compensated for their reputations and supposed managerial acumen Some acumen, I sometimes wonder if baboons would have done better. The only difference is the number of bananas it takes to make a baboon happy is far less then the average F1000 CEO demands.
In another time these greedy bastards would be taken out behind the chemical shed and put out of our misery instead of riding off into the sunset in the turbo Bentleys flush with the cash from the Paulson-regulated golden parachute bailout program.
The fact that more people aren't absolutely boiling mad about this astonishes me and the news that now the telcos are jumping in on the bailout buddy system handout game is not surprising in the least. I only wonder when PepsiCo, Coke and McDonald's are going to come with their hat in their hands too...
At what point do CEOs like Naveen Jain actually pay for committing these kind of acts? Clearly this morally bankrupt individual will stop at nothing to fleece bucks out of an unsuspecting public.
Why is it that our country invests hundreds of billions supposedly in the act of bringing criminals to justice yet high profile white collar criminals grace the covers of our magazines and newspapers and feature prominently in newscasts and other television shows, yet they are never indited or even charged seemingly regardless of how many people they hurt, how much money they steal or how many securities laws they break?
If our moral compass as a society is so completely deranged that we not only fail to prosecute people like Jain we actually reward them for their actions by making them wealthy, than I suppose it is no surprise that we have a corporateocracy in place of a democracy and that it is to the corporatogagues* and their preistecutives* that we pledge our fiscealty*.
At the end of the day through our bastardized election process and the failure of will that allows it to be usurped to the point of uselessness, we support their hegemonic agenda which will ultimately result in the enslavement of our future generations.
*yes, I realize these are words you haven't seen before. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be added to our lexicon as they accurately describe our current reality in ways that haven't been necessary before.
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have access to Obama's telephone records.. what would it tell us if we knew every number he called, every number that called him and the duration of each call.
I mean if it's okay for him to surveil us like that, then shouldn't we have the same rights?
What Happened to No Government Interference in Business?
@anonymous coward:
That ended when Bush and his corprocratic cronies took over power in Washington, bonused themselves and their CEO buddies up the ass and basically gave the corporations carte blanche to run roughshod all over the rights of the individual the best interest of the shareholders and the economy in general. They all knew that they were on a short fuse and now that it's burned up and blown apart they leave the rest of us with little choice but to pick up the pieces and put dumpty dumb and his bro's back together again.
Bush's big mistake was simply that the bomb blew up a couple of months too early, otherwise he would have been out of office and able to blame all these problems on the administration that inherited them.
It's a freaking joke that the CEO's that ran their companies into the ground not only haven't been indited but that they are generally exiting with all their executive compensation and multimillion dollar golden parachutes intact.
Worse, for the most part these aren't the CEO's that actually founded these companies and were thus responsible for the job creation associated with these big firms but were simply professional CEO's that were excessively compensated for their reputations and supposed managerial acumen Some acumen, I sometimes wonder if baboons would have done better. The only difference is the number of bananas it takes to make a baboon happy is far less then the average F1000 CEO demands.
In another time these greedy bastards would be taken out behind the chemical shed and put out of our misery instead of riding off into the sunset in the turbo Bentleys flush with the cash from the Paulson-regulated golden parachute bailout program.
The fact that more people aren't absolutely boiling mad about this astonishes me and the news that now the telcos are jumping in on the bailout buddy system handout game is not surprising in the least. I only wonder when PepsiCo, Coke and McDonald's are going to come with their hat in their hands too...
Criminal Executive Officer?
At what point do CEOs like Naveen Jain actually pay for committing these kind of acts? Clearly this morally bankrupt individual will stop at nothing to fleece bucks out of an unsuspecting public.
Why is it that our country invests hundreds of billions supposedly in the act of bringing criminals to justice yet high profile white collar criminals grace the covers of our magazines and newspapers and feature prominently in newscasts and other television shows, yet they are never indited or even charged seemingly regardless of how many people they hurt, how much money they steal or how many securities laws they break?
If our moral compass as a society is so completely deranged that we not only fail to prosecute people like Jain we actually reward them for their actions by making them wealthy, than I suppose it is no surprise that we have a corporateocracy in place of a democracy and that it is to the corporatogagues* and their preistecutives* that we pledge our fiscealty*.
At the end of the day through our bastardized election process and the failure of will that allows it to be usurped to the point of uselessness, we support their hegemonic agenda which will ultimately result in the enslavement of our future generations.
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*yes, I realize these are words you haven't seen before. That doesn't mean that they shouldn't be added to our lexicon as they accurately describe our current reality in ways that haven't been necessary before.