On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:20:53 -0500, X ` Man wrote:

On 12/17/11 11:14 AM, Happy JH wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:01:06 -0500, X ` wrote:

On 12/17/11 9:35 AM, Happy JH wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:32:25 -0500, X ` wrote:

On 12/16/11 7:26 PM, Tim wrote:
On Dec 16, 5:54 pm, North wrote:
On Dec 16, 4:29 pm, Happy wrote: A Blue Water Project to Restore the Chesapeake Bay

Thanks to the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC),
CBF (Chesapeake Bay Foundation) has been selected to receive an RBC
Blue Water Project™ Leadership Grant.

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Nice to see they are doing some good with the obscene profits they
make up here.

Well, that stands to reason, I mean, Al Capone and John Gotti were
generous heros in their own neighborhoods.

I wonder why a Canadian Bank would have interests in both Maryland and
Virginia?

Capitalizing on a future oyster market?


Organized crime is an outfit of pikers compared to the wall street,
corporate and banking crooks.

Harry, you pound on corporations continuously. With what would you replace them if given the power?

Serious question, btw.


It's not a matter of replacing them, it's a matter of strictly
controlling and regulating them, which, for most practical purposes, we
do not do.

As has been noted, regulations exist, but are not enforced - even by the current regime. You will
have noted that the SEC is finally doing something about Fannie and Freddie, now that Barney is no
longer interested in protecting the CEOs.


I'm aware we have regs not being enforced, a situation which clearly
falls into the breadth of my statement that "it's a matter of strictly
controlling and regulating them." We need additional regulations and we
need to strictly enforce those we have. We also need to push for more
criminal prosecutions of corporate officers for "excesses" that are now
treated as civil matters.

Perhaps the best solution would be to have a government regulator sitting next to every corporate
executive. Hell, then we could just get rid of the corporate executives and let the government
regulators do the job.

Shoot, it worked in the USSR, didn't it?