There are no honest people left on Wall Street or in Washington. We have a guy like Barney Frank, Chairman of the Finance Committee, having homo sex with someone he's supposed to be regulating. The only think he's regulating is how much semen to siphon out of his boyfriend's testicles.
************************************************* 1/20/2013 Eviction Notice http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6169336 --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Geoff Flight <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Geoff Flight <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [OT] Hardly the Best and the Brightest > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 4:25 PM > Whilst I agree with much of what you say, you are also > ignoring the lack of > financial regulation. While greed and incompetence are bad > thigns they are > also inevitable. Govt regulation must be in place to limit > and control it. > The great failure of your economy is the failure of govt to > regulate the > inevitable excesses of capitalism. No excuses for the > greedy and > incompetent, but govt is the big failure here. And I speak > with a deal of > experience because here in Australia we have a ultra stable > and productive > financial system which is well regulated and as a result we > are (arguably) > the worlds best economy. To be honest, the world should be > beating a path to > our door to learn from how we do things. Here's a clue: > no govt debt, budget > surpluses, well regulated banking and finance industry, > moderate interest > rates (neither too high nor too low) and solid employment. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Bob Calco > Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 3:19 AM > To: 'ProFox Email List' > Subject: [OT] Hardly the Best and the Brightest > > http://tinyurl.com/b5ckem > > - - - > Financial wizards like Robert Rubin at Citicorp, Richard > Fuld at Lehman > Brothers and Franklin Raines at Fannie Mae -- all of whom > made millions as > they left behind imploding corporations -- had degrees from > America's top > universities. They had sophisticated understanding of hedge > funds, > derivatives and sub-prime mortgages -- everything, it > seems, but moral > responsibility for the investments of millions of their > ordinary clients. > > The result of such speculation by thousands of Wall Street > gamblers was that > millions of Americans who played by the rules, and put > money each month away > in their 401(k) plans and elsewhere, lost much of their > retirement savings. > Many likely will have to keep working well into their 60s > or 70s, and delay > passing on their jobs to a new generation awaiting > employment. > > Yet most disgraced Wall Street elites will retain their > mega-bonuses and > will not go to jail. Their legacy is having destroyed the > financial > confidence of a society that depends on putting capital > safely away to be > directed for investment by responsible overseers. > > A sort of unraveling of the entire system of credit and > debt may follow from > the loss of confidence in Wall Street. Ads on radio now > blare out to the > rest of us how to renegotiate our mortgages, how to avoid > paying the IRS and > how to walk away from freely incurred credit-card debt. We > hear not to trust > in mutual funds or even banks -- but instead, like medieval > hoarders, to > revert to the age-old safety of gold. > > Apparently, the institutions run by our elites aren't > trustworthy, so why > should we put any faith in them? > > Meanwhile, we are learning that the brightest and > best-educated Americans at > the highest levels of government simply refuse to pay their > required taxes. > Yet because the IRS audits a tiny percentage of taxpayers, > voluntarily > compliance with our tax code is the glue that holds > together a sophisticated > society and separates it from a failed state. > > Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is the chairman of the Ways > and Means Committee > that overseas our tax laws. But his lawyer recently > admitted that Rangel > didn't report some $75,000 in income. > > Timothy Geithner is the new Treasury secretary and oversees > the IRS. Yet > Geithner improperly wrote off his son's summer camp > fees as a dependent-care > expense, and failed to pay thousands of dollars in Social > Security and > Medicare taxes. > > Then there is former Sen. Tom Daschle, who was nominated to > be secretary of > Health and Human Services. It was revealed that he owed the > IRS over > $140,000 in taxes on unreported free limo services; as a > result, he had to > ask President Obama to withdraw his nomination. > > Nancy Killefer, who just withdrew her name from > consideration as > "performance czar," did not pay required taxes > for domestic help. > > The husband of Labor secretary nominee, Hilda Solis, had > over a dozen liens > for back taxes on his property and just now paid up amid > public outcry. (The > issue is relevant, since the couple filed a joint income > tax return.) > > Daschle, Geithner, Killefer and Solis did not disclose > their tax liabilities > until they were nominated to high office and scrutinized by > the press. > > And they apparently did not pay their back taxes until > their appointments > were in jeopardy from public disclosures. That raises > disturbing questions: > Would we have known about such tax dodging had our best and > brightest not > wished career advancement in government? And would they > have ever paid up if > they had not been caught? > > Take your pick -- on the one side, we have free-market > capitalists who took > huge amounts of money as their companies eroded the savings > of tens of > millions; on the other, we have supposedly egalitarian > liberals who skipped > paying taxes. > > The result is the same. Our best educated, wealthiest and > most connected in > matters of finance proved our dumbest -- and our political > leaders were less > than ethical in meeting their moral responsibilities as > citizens. > - - - > > Great article by Victor Davis Hanson. > > - Bob > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
