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The fact that some pundit somewhere drew a line between... As Felix Salmon points out ( http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/30/the-worlds-largest-gui
by MichaelSalib 16y ago
The fact that some pundit somewhere drew a line between...
As Felix Salmon points out ( http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/30/the-worlds-largest-guilt-trip/ http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2009/11/30/the-worlds-... ), we're not talking about some random pundit. We're talking about the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Treasury, and a long list of authoritative figures in civil life.
Or, more directly: it's immmoral for businesses to violate contracts too. What's the rest of your argument?
Given finite resources for law enforcement, we should prioritize investigation and prosecutions so that a small number of random losers who made a bad moral choice that probably harmed no one get investigated/prosecuted after the rich and powerful people who decided to abandon their own underwriting standards and helped destroy the economy.
- tptacek 16y agoSubstitute "President Barack Obama" for "some pundit somewhere" and I don't think my argument changes or loses any force. But, I agree: we shouldn't be creating a task force to go after these people.