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Therein lies the problem: It's an entitlement attitude. Just because someone paid $200K for a degree, does not entitle them to a position as instant CEO of Google, or even a position as a janitor. They gambled, lost, and now expect others to pay for their financial obligations. Had they gambled and won, you can bet your ass they'd be hiring an accountant to lessen their tax burden. The difference between their own greed, and that of the "rich" they seek to eat, is that the "rich", for the most part, have actually worked for what they have.
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I'll be the bad guy here.
I despise dirty, smelly, hippie, communists as much as anyone here. But... I believe those kids would have been completely justified in a moral sense, in standing up, after that douchebag started pepper spraying them, and beating the living dogfuck out of the cop, in self-defense. Legally? Probably not. That having been said, I wonder what history would be like if Bostonians had dispersed when ordered to do so by the legal authority on 5 MAR 1770? I'm not a LEO, but it's my understanding that every sworn officer in this country swears an oath almost, if not totally, identical to the one most of us on this forum swore upon enlistment. So, what part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES," did the officers involved not understand? I'd go so far as to say that every single police officer present who did not step in and stop the battery of those kids is equally guilty through dereliction. Just as a pre-emption, "They were following orders from the legal civic authority" hasn't been a justifiable defense for abuse of human rights since, oh....at least 1946... Don't misunderstand me. A lot of you guys know me personally, and anyone that's read my posts on SOCNET over the better part of the last decade is well aware that I'm extremely pro-police, have a large number of good friends that are LEO, and this is not intended as an indictment of LEO in general.
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I disagree with the hippies having a moral right to beat the living #$%& out of the cop for spraying pepper spray. If they did that I would agree that the other cops would have the right to put holes in them as they escalated the level of violence.
He could have sprayed the entitled slugs with a little less 'flair'. It's pepper spray. How can it be worse than patchouli oil? Every time I go to the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder my eyes water from that crap.
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It gets right back to BBRs and how far one feels like taking it, good for them if they escalate......but as we all know, better be fucking prepared for that counter attack! :)
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Disagree. They're wasting peoples time and our money. Bad for them if they escalate. They'll only continue to secure their image as a hippie flash mob.
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You don't think people in England were saying the same thing about those impertinent colonials?
I'm not comparing these yahoos (I really do think they're fucking retards, but even retards have rights) with the Founding Fathers, but the parallels do make a point.
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Like pepperspray, on your wedding day?
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In the tea leaves? Moving in that direction? Lol Newsflash: They didn't start doing that yesterday bro and somehow we all made it, I even ended up sitting next to a kid from Harvard the last time I went around. He was WAAAY fucking smarter than my dumbass. And rightly so!! ! Just like going to grad school in the military ie, being a Ranger, SEAL, SF, CAG, etc... Is going to open a few more doors then being a 11b from the 82nd. That does not preclude someone with desire and effort to make it into and beyond those same Harvard knuckleheads, although the world needs losers too. If it were easy everyone would do it.....TSAF and for good reason. With enough desire, effort and brains one can go fucking anywhere and it doesn't have to cost a million bucks. These fucks want it FREE, they want it NOW and not surprisingly they don't want to work for it. Reminds me of my brother..."can you get me a job doing what you do?"....... Ah.... No, not unless you want to start out installing fences for 9$/hr! All that said, I don't really think these people are representative of the majority of their generation. I just recently went through a 7 week course that was filled almost entirely with very recent college grads - Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale, my GED bud...and to a fucking one of them - hard working well mannered very determined kids. It was actually from that perspective very very refreshing.
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When you talk about the mortgage derivatives you simply have to remember that regulations and rules can allow and even promote the creation of bad debt, but without buyers what the hell is anyone going to do with that debt, much less derivatives/structured products based on it? The Fed provided the buyers, plain and simple. It's an odd application of Keynesianism I think in that people seem to thing "if you produce it, they will buy" which is bullshit. In order for people to buy bad debt they needed and got three things: easy money and credit; the lower interest rates for which also fueled a hunger for high yield, high risk debt; explicit and implicit guarantees of bailout should the debt go tits up. Quote:
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Less talk......more pepper spray.
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To go even further, a lot of people don't even realize what the Federal Reserve is in charge of being accountable for. Hell, according to it's publications: "The Federal Reserve System: Purposes and Functions," it is explained that "The Federal Reserve has supervisory and regulatory authority over a wide range of financial institutions and activities." . Among the Fed's functions are the regulation of: * Bank holding companies * State-chartered banks * Foreign branches of member banks * Edge and agreement corporations * US state-licensed branches, agencies, and representative offices of foreign banks * Nonbanking activities of foreign banks * National banks (with the Comptroller of the Currency) * Savings banks (with the Office of Thrift Supervision) * Nonbank subsidiaries of bank holding companies * Thrift holding companies * Financial reporting * Accounting policies of banks * Business "continuity" in case of an economic emergency * Consumer-protection laws * Securities dealings of banks * Information technology used by banks * Foreign investments of banks * Foreign lending by banks * Branch banking * Bank mergers and acquisitions * Who may own a bank * Capital "adequacy standards" * Extensions of credit for the purchase of securities * Equal-opportunity lending * Mortgage disclosure information * Reserve requirements * Electronic-funds transfers * Interbank liabilities * Community Reinvestment Act subprime lending requirements * All international banking operations * Consumer leasing * Privacy of consumer financial information * Payments on demand deposits * "Fair credit" reporting * Transactions between member banks and their affiliates * Truth in lending * Truth in savings Oi. Note: I credit professor Tom DiLernzo for this one.
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