Cannonpointer » 23 Jul 2014 9:53 am » wrote:If you are talking about capitalism, and trying to float the idea that capitalism should or even CAN exist unregulated, then let me educate you: The stock market attracts TRILLIONS of anonymous dollars, looking for improvement. The trust investors show is predicated on the fact that Wall Street exchanges are regulated by the government. Just imagine if it were NOT regulated by government. All that money, and no one watching...
There need to be a few simple laws to govern those who engage in any kind of business.
But there are 10's of thousand of pages of them to the point no ordinary citizen or small businessman can possibly follow them.
Crushing business activity and making felons out of people doing business in what they think is a legal manner.
Further, Big Business uses its influence to crush competitors, to rig the game in its favor, to immunize itself against prosecution.
Was John Corzine ever indicted for illegally diverting 100's of millions of dollars of client funds into his private money losing schemes? No, of course not.
But anti-Obama Gibson Guitar was raided at gunpoint over a paperwork dispute and apparent legal business practice.
Wake the f*** up.