The Case for Bastille Day

**Ranger_Strider** · September 17th, 2009

It is time to finally admit that too many (I would venture to say a majority) of this overly-entitled class of robber barons are entirely without moral compass and have capitulated to the seamy, greedy, and slimy side of human nature: tort lawers, mortgage brokers, real estate developers, securities-rating companies, federal mortgage companies, investment bankers, hedge fund managers, corporate CEOs and CFOs, (ponzi scheme) financial advisers, small-business owners hiding income (cheating on their taxes and hiring illegal workers), politicians, doctors who own (stocks in) diagnostic companies, Medicare fraudsters (including many pharmacists), pharmaceutical execs, medical insurance companies, government regulators, and on and on and on. It is blind for government to throw borrowed money at problems that stem from individual and collective avarice (a deadly sin, mind you). It is time to treat this wide spectrum of people who continue to game the system with contempt and suspicion at every turn; and over-regulate them until they turn blue and choke. Cease enabling the disgraceful upper-crust leeches that have almost bled our (once great) country of its life’s blood. Shine the light on them and cast them out into the wilderness to rend their garments, tear out their hair, gnash their teeth, and wail in the night without refuge in our (wounded) hearts or (humble) homes.

**Ranger_Strider** · December 11th, 2009

Perhaps I bogged down in the long list of fraudsters. Suffice to say that I'm so pissed off I could spit.
I will never capitulate to evil though. Greed is evil.
I liked the way the French revolution came down on the necks of the deserving. I think it wouldn't be bad to replay the same sort of thing in the near future in America.
Let's say that anyone holding more than $5 million in personal assets goes to the gallows, ok?
$3 to $5 million is just a contemporary upper-cruster who will be expected to provide at least 12 good jobs with full benefits to real people who only expect a good life and not to stand on the backs of their fellows to get it.
$1 to $3 million is someone who will be expected to serve soup to the starving and homeless at least once a week.
$200,000 to $1 million will pay at least 33% tax and teach economics to those making less.
People making less than $200,000 per annum will be favored in all court cases against those making more.
No heads rolling because most of the greedy bastards won't want to live without their dirty porn-star sex partners, and will kill themownselves anyway.
I'm waiting for the headline about Tiger slitting his wrists over the troubles that money brings.
'Zat better?

**Ranger_Strider** · December 17th, 2009

Ok, ok, ok, let's just say that anybody who accepts the Nobel Peace Prize is NOT allowed to send 30,000 of his brothers and sisters into harm's way in the same week. Is that asking to much of the collective sanity?

**Ranger_Strider** · August 4th, 2010

HMMM, i MAY have been ranting...

**GLewman** · August 8th, 2010

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit

...Why even try to work then. Someone will give me a job because they have to. And if I do just enough to get by then I won't have to pay 33% to someone else only because they may not have worked as hard as I did. Also, I don't want to give up my court advantage. And I will get to spend more time with my family, and doing the things I want to do, because I won't have to spend my free time teaching others after I'm done working or running a business. Hard work and new ideas...bahh!...who needs them? I'm sure anybody making more than I am is just a greedy bastid who took advantage of someone else. I make 20K a year and and the guy that hired me should pay because he took on the responsibility and risk of opening a business. Ranger...businesses are there to create a service or make a product. The more of a product or service needed the more people will be hired to provide it. Businesses are their to hire anyone. People are hired out of necessity...not as a public service. Urrp! I just threw up in my mouth again...What you are suggesting is the front end of communism...Please read a book called "We the Living" by Ayn Rand and you will see exactly what played out in Soviet Russia...Please read anything by Ayn Rand...it may change your life

**Ranger_Strider** · August 9th, 2010

I have read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I find Ayn Rand to have been an elitist who never got over being put down to size by the communist revolution in Russia. Not that I epsouse communism, because I do not. But neither do I agree with the current situation in America wherein the government only serves the needs of the wealtiest corprations and citizens. So much so in fact that most hardworking people in this country can't even afford to go to the emergency room once without facing bankruptcy. I suggest pepto-bismol for the throwing up thing. Thanks for responding.

**GLewman** · August 10th, 2010

I have read The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. I find Ayn Rand to have been an elitist who never got over being put down to size by the communist revolution in Russia. Not that I epsouse communism, because I do not.

**Ranger_Strider** · August 19th, 2010

I feel I have been remiss in not explaining what I mean: It should be possible for corporations and rich people to have a healthy balance-sheet without raping or gaming the entire capitalist economic system. Just recognize greed and it's harm. When John Smith spoke about self-interest as the invisible hand, he did not mean UNBRIDLED self interest. All of us mature, well-adjusted, and caring citizens know that if we don't hand out a little, we can never get a hand.
Helping out has to be part of the paradigm when helping one's self.