Pill boy smirks at Congressional hearing.

[The Grand Nudger]

Agreed, I just think that comparisons to slavery (even as metaphor) are basically blowing into your own sails more wind than is required to bring the boat to shore.  You can make the point without it, and it's bad enough in it's own right, eh?

[Brian37]

Agreed, I just think that comparisons to slavery (even as metaphor) are basically blowing into your own sails more wind than is required to bring the boat to shore.  You can make the point without it, and it's bad enough in it's own right, eh?

Fair enough, "Cletus"? Really? 

Actually my birth name is not Brian, my adoptive parents asked me at the age of 5 nearly 6, if I wanted to change my original name. I but I did change it because it sounded to hickish and dorky at the time. No it was not "Cletus". 

But I do wish they had thought about my adoptive initials Brian and James, I discovered in middle school it meant "blow job". I look back at that now and go, "THANKS MOM THANKS DAD, you let me pick that?"

[vorlon13]

I'm not defending him, but if I was called to testify before congress I would have similar trouble concealing my contempt for all the bozos there.

Since when does it make someone a "bozo" for putting human lives first?

This isn't legal vs illegal, this is about COST. Did you not read the post where Aegon talked about having to pay 3,000 dollars for a vile of medicine? I DON'T GIVE ONE FUCK if that is legal, the only reason it would be is because of corporations writing the laws to benefit them at the cost of the rest of us.

AGAIN Bernie Maddoff DID break the law with his Ponzy scheme, but that DOES NOT make what the bankers did to cause the great recession moral either despite the bankers crashing the economy through laws legally.

LEARN the difference between legal and moral. 

An illegal act can be moral, like poor and unemployed person stealing a loaf of bread to feed their kids, then you can abuse your power while rich and write laws to benefit yourself. The coal mine industry did that in West Virginia for a long time. They would get laws passed to gain a monopoly on the housing and even grocery stores, jack up the price for the workers to live there so by the time they paid their bills they had nothing or stayed in dept. It was legalized slavery.

There are PLENTY of big business owners whom are not breaking the law currently but because of the law, I still find them completely and utterly vile and immoral.

To clarify:

while Shrkelli is a shitstain, I found his open contempt of the cretins, twits, nimnuls, dopes, dweebs, creeps, pervs, toadies and buffoons populating our congress to be entirely refreshing.

Contempt of congress is practically a sacrament with me and if congress wasn't pissing away hundreds of billions of dollars every year on redundant, stupid, redundant, wasteful, redundant, fraudulent, redundant, and redundant programs the country would be managed way better and the Shkrellis in our midst would have a far harder time fucking their victims.

Everybody seems to loathe 'congress', but most people re-elect their congresscritter every fucking chance they get.  Stupid fucks get the government they deserve because they keep re-electing the same fucking idiots.