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I'm gonna stop you right there, you just said an AR-15 is a high-powered rifle. It is obvious you don't know anything about guns and I shall ignore anything you say from this point on.
IIRC NYPD, back in the 80's, used to carry revolvers loaded w .38 spcl. wadcutters. Perhaps they should go back to that set up?
I'm really disappointed in you tack... You mispelled by bystanders..... I expect better from you! jk.
I find it amusing that you equate "construction" with "carpentry" and then deride carpentry, which happens to be a highly skilled and respected proffesion. I am actualy a project manager. I bid, negotiate, and write contracts with values ranging for 50k up to 25 Million. I will not sink to your level of insulting anyones trade despite the proof you've provided of you belonging to the 1% of "special" ass hats who've no business wearing a badge, let alone a gun. If and when things go terribly wrong in this country, it will be because mouthy dip sh!ts like you... Suffering from little man's syndrome... And compensating for your 2"'penis by asserting your "authority" like "Cartman" in the "Hall Monitor" episode of South Park FINALLY manage to cross the wrong line with the wrong man. I've met your type many times. You spent your youth acting like the neighbors poodle who would come screaming off the porch to challenge passers by only to hit the brakes and backpeddal the moment you were looked at. Your burning need to be respected despite your lack of character is what led you to the badge and an elder member of your Familly must have pulled some strings to get your pudgy ass into and through the academy. Go ahead... Attempt another smart ass response partner. It's been awhile since I've needed to shred an idiot but you are more than worthy. Tack


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"A GREAT space shooter, but hard as NAILS!"
Konami is well-known for their castlevania and Metal Gear series. Well, they've made some other fine titles, and fortunately, Life Force is one of them. Needless to say, it rocks!
Life Force is a space shooter by Konami, and was released for the NES some time back. I found it for $2 at Game Crazy one time and decided to give it a go. Normally these types of games don't catch my eye, but thankfully it was ahead of it's time and featured exciting gameplay with traps and tricky enemies, and long winding tunnels which would put your skills to the test.
Although I enjoy a challenging game, The difficulty in this game will chew you up, spit you out, step on you, and eat you. Luckily, one day I invited my friend over and eventually we got much farther into the game. Sometimes when you kill an enemy, a little crystal-thingy will appear and if you keep collecting them, you'll aquire a power-up. This mechanic is very useful and key to beating the game.
Not even classics like sinistar, galaga, or galaxian can match Life Force. This is most likely due to the aforementioned power-up system, and the inclusion of CO-OP! That's right, no more taking turns! But one thing that those games has over this is that they have a user-friendly difficulty. This game is truly for the hardcore, and don't buy it unless you are adept at this type of game, because you will not survive for long!
Walls will cave in, serpents will try to grab you, and a freakin armada of enemy ships are after you. This is one exciting title! The shooter I grew up with was R-type, and that was one fine game, but I personally think it has NOTHING on this game. Konami should totally make a sequel or something to this, because it is a TRUE CLASSIC!!
so lemme break it down for ya...
GRAPHICS- 9 - simple, clean, and well-animated graphics with some decent scrolling backgrounds. Enemies look sharp and so does your ship.
SOUND- 8 - somewhat catchy music with some pretty good sound effects, but nothing too great.
GAMEPLAY- 9 - Very good power-up system with a wicked difficulty, but at times so hard that it feels like trial and error. I can admit that this game made me cry on several occasions.
VALUE- 10 - the difficulty will keep you playing this for awhile, and 2-player rocks!! Otherwise it has a decent length, and even if you don't have friends, with a lot of practice, you'll eventually beat it.
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I believe that China and India will always be at odds, especially given the relations between China and Pakistan. Will there be war? It doesn't seem like it at the moment. But because these two powerhouses have such different goals and cultures, they're bound to clash somewhere along the line. I agree with this article. I don't think the U.S. is influencing either of these countries to contain China, even though doing so would likely benefit us in the long run. From an economic perspective, I think we need to encourage really positive relations with China, because it's clear we don't want to have them as an adversary.
India and Vietnam had been buddies for decades.
Both countries supported Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and both countries participated in the 1980 Moscow Olympics while most of the world boycotted the Game.
Anyway, it is tit-for-tat. China befriends with India's neighbors like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and even Maldives while India befriends with Vietnam. And China befriends with Vietnam's neighbors like Cambodia and Laos.
China likes to talk about its "peaceful rise" but it sure doesn't have any problem with bullying its neighbors around. If those neighbors suddenly started ganging up on China, it's because China brought it onto itself.
@No Mist
No wonder genuine posters are sick of button pusher like you.Cow boy, trigger happy,palaver hawker on blind dates?
China has been offering "substantial compromise" and "liberal" in border dispute resolution as the scholars at MIT and Nehru University analysed.
So why can't India and Vietnam settle their land and maritime disputes with China bilaterally?
But if some countries hold the attitude like "cannot give up land for whatever reasons", then there can't be any amicable resolutions.
Why Vietnam and India? These nations have no historic alliances and personal connections. Perhaps their only shared culture is rice.
- The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Surround your enemy is an important strategic plan.
- Gaining friends and allies is just as important in war preparation as building warships.
- Going against the world's largest land army, even the 2nd largest army needs an ally.
- Vietnam was not just a foe for America, it became an overwhelming iconic cultural metaphor...India hopes Vietnam can again replicate its success against China.
- The Vietnamese Army is probably has the most effective guerilla tactics in the world. They are the Israelis in jungle fighting. India would like to learn
- India is so frustrated with Pakistan, it is seeding future proxy wars as a security policy. Passive aggressively projecting power by annoying giants.
- Vietnam is becoming a pawn in a powerful Triangle of Power. No different than Poland in WWII.
- This again illustrates the primacy of Energy in driving conflict. Would the Spratly Islands be so contested otherwise?
- This is a rare opportunity to show off Indian aircraft carriers overseas. Now if they could only cure diarrhea affecting its sailors.
- China may well drive Vietnam into a military alliance with American Forces. Yes strange bedfellows re. Enemy of my enemy....
- China' s soft economic power and deep pockets may prove too much for India to contest.
- Ultimately it may boil down to the popularity of Chinese food vs Indian food. Worldwide, there is no contest.
This article is presupposing too much of a deal on the part of China regarding Indian advances to countries like Vietnam, Mongolia etc. Perhaps that's the purpose of this article, but I don't think China has time for that.
I think China considers them all good neighbors, and China is the largest trading partner to each of India (CIA factbook GDP $1,430 b), Vietnam (GDP $90 b) and Mongolia (GDP $5.4 b).
China (GDP $5,745 b) would certainly welcome the recent warming up among these nations providing that territorial right of China was not infringed upon.
But make no mistake about it, these nations can't afford to have bad relation with China unless they were propped up and subtly backed by the US doctrine of containment of China.
Being still the unquestioned only superpower of the world, the US financial status today is such that it could not rely only on the force projection of its own sheer force and of its vassal states such as Japan to advance its aim. The US could use all the help it can get these days from those nominally and normally independent but surrogate-ble or client-able states. That's why all of a sudden, we see states like India, Vietnam, Philippines, Myanmar, are in some kind of moves deemed provocative to China's interest.
It's clear that some body is trying hard to poke China into military conflicts in Asia to impede China's economic national rebuilding.
Alas, China isn't budging so easily on its peaceful development. We are happier with regional cooperation activities, such as ASEAN + 1, +3 Conference and Exhibit currently undergoing in SW China than squeezing time to needlessly "fear" such friendly or unfriendly scenarios.
China, India and Pakistan must learn from European history and stop the nonsense of wakening their nationalist/religious monsters. Frontiers there are not drawn by the governments of these nations, they were drawn by the Manchu, the Russian, the British, the French, the Spanish/American and the Dutch empires. They are minefields.
Pakistan and India are both furious by the Jammu and Kashmir conflict. China claims Tibet as the successor state of the Manchu empire, claims the South China Sea as Vietnam was her province during the Manchu empire, and claims Taiwan, a region which belonged to her during five years after the WW II. Chinese claims are obnoxious, in reality irrelevant for the Chinese growth but very relevant for the Chinese pride. And pride is what makes wars.
Each of these disputes must cool down. Each of these regions makes a good candidate for an Asiatic Alsace-Lorraine, a region with 14500 sq.km. that led to three major wars, and indirectly destabilized the Russian Empire and led to the Soviet Revolution. Perhaps a hundred million died in Europe, or about 7000 for each square kilometer, and the cnflict started with a provocative ultimate of the French emperor to the German emperor in 1870. In a sense the drive for European unity started with the consequences of that Napoleon III ultimatum.
The best Asiatic Alsace-Lorraine is the Jammu and Kashmir. Not considering the rights and wrongs for partitioning the British Raj, Pakistan overstretched her resources with conflicts with India and interference in Iran's Baluchistan and in Afghanistan. A collapse of the Pakistan state would be terrible for the region. Pakistan must become a new Indonesia, not a new Somalia.
Calling South China Sea as their lake is akin to staking claim on Mediterranean by one of the many littoral nations along it or India claiming Indian ocean as its backyard. Totally insane, inane and futile. How can a state whcih prides iteself with crafty statecraft stoop to such extremites and now that it has, its actions have only fuelled further regional insecurity and compelled the smaller nations to seek larger alliances. No wonder both Vietnam and India, having borne the brunt of Chinese agression are getting closer but what would worry and anger China is the brazen audacity with which such alliances are challenging its core issues. TODAY IT IS SOUTH CHINA SEA AND ONE DAY IT SHALL BE TIBET and world await that day when China shall be challenged in that land.
@Peaceful Asia
Possibly,you may have been around at times(1962)when India surrendered at Neffa , India-China border.
Chinese not only receded back into their legal borders , around 20KM behind.
Not only that ,in Chinese tradition, they returned Army Weapons,Vehicles... to the Indians in working condition,cleaned, well oiled...
On the other hand, Ayub Khan of Pakistan admirably restrained Army action into the disputed territory of Kashmir saying :
"Unlike Hindus I do not like stabbing people in their backs."
Indian-Vietnam's fling well illustrates warring Hindu's mindset against China.
China usually has issues with any country that goes against what they specifically want. Take, for instance, a similar article where the Dalai Lama was not granted a visa to enter South Africa. Why? Because the government officials in South Africa were too afraid to upset their biggest trading partner, China. China has a lot of influence through their trading power. Sometimes, they use this power to influence their own wants in other countries, much like the power that Russia has over its nearby countries. Vietnam has diverged China's direct influence by bolstering their trade with India, another monster economy on the move. Lately, China has become more and more aggravated as the countries near them that they wish to have more influence over defy them. For example, recently, Myanmar refused to allow China to build a hydro-power dam in their country. China is losing some influence in the countries that border it. This has led to an angry China that will do what it can to regain this influence.
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Because of the border conflict in 1979, Vietnam will not trust US. The US was on China's side, and provided them with any necessity they needed, such as weapons and military technology. Vietnam is not trusted by asean countries because of what Vietnam did in the cold war. Because of the lack of trust Vietnam has from other countries, it is reasonable that vietnam wants more support outside of East Asia and Southeast Asia. Vietnam wanting to build a good relationship with more countries is natural, China does not need to worry about anything if Vietnam respects China's border, and keeps the 1958 treaty.
------amber7,Thank you.Your english skill should be far better than mine in expressing the same meaning.
When fellow Indian poster patriot1 claimed that "India cannot give away any part of AP to China for various reasons", he should read what his fellow Indian scholar wrote:
Analysts have drawn attention to the territorial concessions that China extended to resolve its many disputes. Of its 23 territorial disputes active since 1949, China offered "substantial compromises" in 17, usually agreeing "to accept less than half of the territory being disputed," M Taylor Fravel, associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pointed out in the article "Regime Insecurity and International Cooperation: Explaining China's Compromises in Territorial Disputes," published in the journal International Security.
However, there is more to it than meets the eye. The territorial concessions that China is believed to have made are not quite as substantial as they appear to be. Srikanth Kondapalli, a China expert at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi pointed out that China's strategy of stepping up territorial claims and then settling for less has enabled it to appear to be making a major territorial concession to reach a border resolution agreement. In several disputes, "whether China actually gave up territory or made a substantial concession is a debatable question," he told Asia Times Online.
Still, in the quest for regional stability China overall "has been liberal in border dispute resolution", he said.
Vietnam is just like Japanese, they do "not" want to associate with Chinese more than the Japanese
No Mist Oct 21st 2011 6:53 GMT
@No Mist
I can just one more to the India hater list: Bangladesh.
I agreed with you regarding many China haters.
gocanucks Oct 20th 2011 8:48 GMT
What is wrong with China? India is already following China example of negotiation. All India wants right now is territories de facto controlled. If China's example is concessions, then all is good as the way it is now. China will have no more land border problem.
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India and Vietnam had been buddies for decades.
Both countries supported Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and both countries participated in the 1980 Moscow Olympics while most of the world boycotted the Game.
Right.So I believe that Afghan and Afghanistan goverment cann't and won't trust the both countries,especially India.It isn't about ideology,democratic Afghanistan goverment also don't.
India alway is ready to invate China.Indian Army even threaten China openly, they want to invate and occupy Lhasa and Beijing since it's independence.Today,the headline news in China has show India's ambition.The Hindustan Times,an India newspaper,in a article,Indian Army makes no secret about it's ambition in its notice which says "LHASA… BEIJING…WE WILL BE THERE." Although Hindustan Times deleted the picture after protesting,but it is too late for them.Look it notice as follow:
How can do China trust India? Please give China a reason?
On the other hand, some of China's many neighbors like her.
For example, Tajikstan, one of China's 14 contiguous neigbhors, voluntarily cedes 1% of its land to China this month:
"China Expands 1,158 Square Kilometers West" by Tom Hancock posted on AsinCorrespondnet.com on October 2 notes that China's total land area grew by 1,158 square kilometers as the country's border with neighboring Tajikistan was formally redrawn. As a result of the transfer, which took place on the far-western edge of China, Tajikistan's total land area has reportedly decreased by 1%, Asia-Plus reported.
A Chinese military newspaper was cited as reporting that a ceremony was reportedly held on September 20 at a newly installed border marker and representatives from the Tajik and Chinese militaries exchanged gifts.
"The land transferred contains part of the Pamir mountain range, which crosses several Central Asian countries. The mountains were considered a strategic section of the silk route, as they allowed access to modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"China and Tajikistan agreed to the land transfer in January this year. The land handed to the Chinese covers only 5.5% of the land that Beijing originally sought, the Tajik foreign minister said. China is the biggest investor in the Tajik economy, particularly in the energy and infrastructure sectors, the BBC reported.
[No Mist Oct 21st 2011 6:53 GMT
There is hardly a nation in the world (except one) which loves China. And There is hardly a nation in the world (except two) which overtly hates India.]
Not so fast! Bangladesh has had a friendly relation with China for quite some time. Nepal, which was traditionally pro-Indian, has been actively sought friendship from China in the past few years. Sri Lanka intends to go even further:
"Sri Lankas Army Commander Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya invited the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China to send in more of their trainee students for professional military courses offered by the Sri Lanka Army in order to receive wider exposure in defeat of terrorism. "
Like Pakistan, there is little in common between China and all these neighbours of India. There is no particular cultural or ethnically affinity between China and any of them either. I will leave it to you to work out why they ALL "overly" seek friendship with China instead of India.
Being Vietnam lover , will think and count my fingers,before visiting as tourist,can't imagine given to eat middle fingers.
Not Han Chauvinist either , just down to earth Pakistani !
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"Self-deception seems always to depend upon the dream world, because you would like to see what you have not yet seen, rather than what you are now seeing." ~Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
"From the Buddhist point of view, the most profound way to relate to the realm of our emotions and the entire universe is to simply experience each moment as it is, each phenomenon as it arises, without concepts and labels. If we are looking for a better way we are wasting our time." ~Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
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If we see our lives rightly, we will discover them to be an inconceivable torrent of blessings from start to finish. But to make this discovery, we have to contemplate our life, exactly as it is, in a completely open and unbiased way… The only thing that will ever heal us is our own experience; our own naked, spontaneous, human experience. Anything that we feel, anything that we're willing to open to is healing for us." ~Reggie Ray of the Dharma Ocean Foundation
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"Jack Frost" is the kind of movie that makes you want to take the temperature, if not feel for the pulse, of the filmmakers. What possessed anyone to think this was a plausible idea for a movie? It's a bad film, yes, but that's not the real problem. "Jack Frost" could have been co-directed by Orson Welles and Steven Spielberg and still be unwatchable, because of that damned snowman.
The snowman gave me the creeps. Never have I disliked a movie character more. They say state-of-the-art special effects can create the illusion of anything on the screen, and now we have proof: It's possible for the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic to put their heads together and come up with the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects, and I am not forgetting the Chucky doll or the desert intestine from "Star Wars." To see the snowman is to dislike the snowman. It doesn't look like a snowman, anyway. It looks like a cheap snowman suit. When it moves, it doesn't exactly glide--it walks, but without feet, like it's creeping on its torso. It has anorexic tree limbs for arms, which spin through 360 degrees when it's throwing snowballs. It has a big, wide mouth that moves as if masticating Gummi Bears. And it's this kid's dad.
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Think about that. It is an astounding fact. The snowman on Charlie's front lawn is a living, moving creature inhabited by the personality of his father. It is a reflection of the lame-brained screenplay that despite having a sentient snowman, the movie casts about for plot fillers, including a school bully, a chase scene, snowball fights, a hockey team, an old family friend to talk to Mom--you know, stuff to keep up the interest between those boring scenes when the snowman is TALKING.
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But Charlie, self-centered little movie child, is more concerned with how Jack Frost (his father's real name) can help him. His dad has been dead for a year and comes back as a snowman and all he can think of is using the snowman to defeat the school bully in a snowball fight. Also, the kid tries to keep Dad from melting. (What kind of a half-track miracle is it if a snowman can talk, but it can't keep from melting?) Does the snowman have any advice for his son? Here is a typical conversation: Jack Frost: "You da man!" Charlie: "No, YOU da man!" Jack: "No, I da SNOWMAN!" Eventually the snowman has to leave again--a fairly abrupt development announced with the cursory line, "It's time for me to go ... get on with your life." By this time the snowman's secret is known not only to his son but to his wife (Kelly Preston), who takes a phone call from her dead husband with what, under the circumstances, can only be described as extreme aplomb. At the end, the human Jack Frost materializes again, inside swirling fake snow, and tells his wife and son, "If you ever need me, I'm right here." And Charlie doesn't even ask, "What about on a hot day?"
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There's a double standard: leniency for the rich and harsh law for the rest. We trim, blend, append three 2012 articles from Rolling Stone, Mar 19, on GMEs by M. Taibbi; (2) CNNMoney, Mar 27, on prices by L. Christie; and (3) MarketWatch, Mar 27, on Corzine by D. Weidner.
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In con artistry parlance, they call this the "reload." That's when you hit the same mark twice -- typically with a second scam designed to "fix" the damage caused by the first scam. Someone robs your house, then comes by the next day and sells you a fancy alarm system, that's the reload.
In this case, banks dumped huge volumes of subprime loans on, among others, Fannie and Freddie. Then the loans crashed in value, nearly bankrupting the two GSEs (Government Sponsored Enterprises). So the banks bought back the mortgages a big discount.
Further, the ever-ready state customers continue to buy mortgages from the big banks (until recently, even from Bank of America, whom the GSEs were already suing for sales of toxic MBS), giving the banks a permanent market for questionable home loans.
In sum, banks create the loans, make money selling them off on the market at high prices, then come back and buy them again when they're low. When the GSEs are in the middle of this transaction, it makes mortgage lending a basically risk-free proposition: Banks offshore the market risk to a government entity and/or to the idiot individual who bought the home mortgage in the first place.
Lately, many of the banks/investors who buy these home loans back from Fannie/Freddie will rent out their properties instead of reselling them, which can vastly increase their revenue streams.
From the WSJ: "Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate the annual yield on an investment on rental property nationwide averages about 6.3%, but can exceed 8% in cities that were hit hard during the housing bust.
Warren Buffett, considered a sage investor and chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said in an interview with CNBC-TV last month that he would buy up 'a couple hundred thousand' single-family homes if he could do so easily, given the high yields on rental investments."
Another potential buyer, according to the article, is John Paulson, the pillaging hedge-fund billionaire who was behind Goldman's notorious "Abacus" deal (in which Goldman allowed Paulson to pack a portfolio full of loser mortgages he was shorting before those same mortgages were dumped on a pair of Euro banks).
Is this what we had in mind when we created the "ownership society" -- helping billionaire bankers collect your rent?
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JJS: Got cash? Buy low, sell high, just like the big guys. Better act now while the cycle is nearing its absolute bottom.
Home prices fall to 2002 levels
Home prices dropped for the fifth consecutive month in January, reaching their lowest point since the end of 2002.
The average home sold in that month lost 0.8% of its value, compared with a month earlier, and prices were down 3.8% from 12 months earlier, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller home price index of 20 major markets.
Home prices have fallen 34.4% from the peak set in July 2006.
Only three of the 20 index cities registered gains in January, led by Phoenix [where earlier speculation was outrageous], which climbed 0.9% month-over-month, Washington [capitals benefit from government spending], up 0.7%, and Miami [where earlier speculation was outrageous], which edged 0.6% higher.
Home builders have turned more bullish and are gearing up for more new construction. Mortgage rates are also still very favorable and the economy is getting better with hiring on the rise.
The housing market may be recovering. Regular sales, as opposed to bank sales of foreclosed homes, increased over the past few months.
Sellers have capitulated to the lower sales prices of foreclosures and have adjusted their expectations of the prices their homes can command in the market.
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JJS: As long as people speculate on land, expect the business cycle to boom and bust. But siphoning off land rent -- which actually is our common wealth -- is not the only big scam in town. There's also outright theft, excused because it's committed by white-collar criminals with tight ties to the powers that be.
Corzine is getting a pass -- would you?
Do you think you would be walking free today if you told the police you "lost" $1.6 billion in other people's money? Jon Corzine, ex-CEO of MF Global Holdings who allegedly authorized what amounts to theft of customer funds, hoofs it.
Billionaire Corzine, as a top Democrat, former governor of New Jersey, and one of Obama's biggest campaign donors, is viewed as someone who used political influence to dodge paying the price for wrongdoing.
Why, nearly five months after the bankruptcy of MF Global, has not a single person has been charged in the looting of $1.6 billion in customer funds?
Until now, Corzine has lost only his reputation from the MF Global blow-up. He's testified before congressional committees and given evasive answers. But an Oct. 28 email from MF Global's assistant treasurer, Edith O'Brien, said she ordered a transfer "per JC's [Jon Corzine's] direct instructions."
Someone in this case -- Corzine or O'Brien or both -- isn't telling the truth. Shifting customer funds is illegal. And if these funds are "lost", they certainly were shifted. They just didn't fall off the back of a mail truck.
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JJS: The cash that customers invested with MF Global, where did they get it? Did they earn it? Not likely. Whenever someone has a ton of surplus cash to park somewhere, you can be sure much if not all of it is "rent" or profit from nature or privilege. For them, losing their money to Corzine turns out to be another case of no honor among thieves. But for the small savers whose nest-egg got sucked up into this and other Wall Street funds, it is a true crime and tragedy.
The only solution, really, is for all of us to quit leaving the trillions of dollars of value of nature and of government-granted privilege on the table for the unscrupulous to scoop up. How do we do that? How do we redirect the flow of "rents" from the few insiders to the entire society?
We use geonomics. We get government to charge full market value for all the permits it grants, everything from land titles to corporate charters. Then, from the raised public revenue, get government to disburse equal dividends to we the citizenry.
A convenient way to recover the socially-generated value of land, as Henry George noted long ago, is to tax land according to its value. It's a powerful and fundamental reform that's becoming part of the discussion in England. Martin Wolf, editor at London's Financial Times, said (Mar 21), "It would be better still to move to site value taxation and eliminate stamp duty, council tax, and business rates." To read more, click here .
Once we quit letting the values of nature and privilege be a lure to the unscrupulous, but instead become a nest-egg for everyone, then we'll close this chapter on white-collar crime and start a new one on economic justice and security.
Editor Jeffery J. Smith runs the Forum on Geonomics and helped prepare a course for the UN on geonomics. To take the "Land Rights" course, click here .
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