Comments on: UBS Pays $780M For Aiding Tax Cheats: Where’s Phil Gramm?

By: Jkat

Jkat — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:32:30 +0000

hmmmm.. maybe an agressive pursuit of the individual who have probably acted improperly in the run up to our developing financial calamity ..and fining the pure-de-living hell out of them could reduce the deficits a bit eh ??

i’m think especially of the rating agencies who allowed the bundling and rebundling of the shaky loans [ -BBB’s?] to magically get rated as AAA’s by virtue of having been been all lumped together .. i think must have used magic string to tie those bundles together .. eh .. and surely they could be made to cough a few bucks for their obvious malfeasance ..

all in all $780 m ain’t a bad start .. wonder how much we’ll collect off the 20k+ scofflaws ??

By: Robt

Robt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:21:12 +0000

Phil Gramm was last seen telling the American people on the TV, from the McCain campaign that Americans were “Whiners”.

You think Carly Fiorina is one of those accounts?

Will the list of these tax evader’s names be made public?

And what about the Cayman Islands?

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:15:46 +0000

Yanno, today I actually have the first furtive stirrings of a hopeful feeling that between UBS/Philgramm, Rove, Gitmo leakers, Coleman, Pelosi’s positive talk about Bushie indictments, etc., we might — just might, mind — be on the verge of seeing a serious outbreak of justice here.

On the other hand, it could just be the sugar talking…

By: albertchampion

albertchampion — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:12:27 +0000

uruguay is a very important locus for afghan opium refining. and it has dropped off the radar screen.

for all practical purposes, the reverend sun myung moon owns uruguay. operates the heroin refineries.

if you don’t know the totality of the reverend moon operations, you can reference bob parry and john gorenfield[sic].

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:07:58 +0000

I like it down here in pastel land…)

By: barbara

barbara — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:05:34 +0000

Close your eyes, open your mouth…here it comes…rich, buttery vanilla-colored ice cream (Edy’s Slow Churned), filled with loverly chunks of pecans…nice, eh?

By: Eureka Springs

Eureka Springs — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:01:09 +0000

Yes please…)

By: hackworth

hackworth — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:49:57 +0000

Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Smedley Butler, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Gore Vidal and dozens of others have pontificated on this topic ad nauseum for years. The US is obviously the agressor with the trillion dollar military “budget” and all the accoutrements .

By: barbara

barbara — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:48:11 +0000

Oh, rats. Or good. Or both. Want some of my butter pecan ice cream?

By: ibfreenow

ibfreenow — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:48:10 +0000

Well, you go Uruguay, and I’ll go mine! (the Great Groucho).