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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Juicero, but make it for coffee

I don't think it's "regulations" so much as "enforcement." I think if some bankers had legit lost their jobs and/or gone to jail over the Great Recession? Tea party doesn't happen. Trump doesn't get elected. Nobody talks about disbanding the Department of Education. The fact of the matter is, everyone responsible for making sure that shit didn't happen again were the guys who made it happen in the first place. Instead they're all fucking untouchable. And that was after Jeff Skilling and Bernie Ebbers - Enron and Worldcom respectively - served only twelve fucking years. This guy? This guy crashed AIG three years AFTER the FBI was investigating them for fraud.

Fuckin' DOGE has made bigger accounting misstatements than Worldcom did.

If you don't call it crime...