Jim W.
I think I will address some of your points as I have time and the
inclination. How about #4 this morning with my 2nd cup of coffee?
Stop corporate pillaging. No punative damages, only compensatory?
So basically you are saying that corporations should not suffer ANY
punishment whatsoever for whatever they do? And you take this stance
because to punish the corporation is to really punish the
shareholders, who I'm sure you would like to portray as an elderly,
blind old school-marm who depends on that dividend check to buy her
medicine and Ensure and food for her seeing eye dog. By that logic i
should be able to rob a bank and IF caught simply pay back the money I
stole and proceed to the next bank. I guess if you are sooooo terribly
concerned about our blind school marm we could have corp. X pay
compensatory damages and give their board members serious jail time. I
guess right about now your looking up the famous lawsuit where the
lady sued the shit out of mcDonalds after spilling hot coffee in her
lap, or one similar to it.
A punitive financial penality must be large enough to actually
provide punishment. Would I give a damn about parking in front of a
fire hydrant if the fine was a dime? Make the fine $100.00 and tow
away my car, which will cost be another couple of hundred $ to get
back, and I'll be more careful the next time, won't I?
Will a corporation pass the cost of such judgements on to their
customers? Of course they will. Maybe they will have to raise prices
so much as to lose business to their competitors. My response to that
is GOOD. THAT'S the punitive part.
Yeah, yeah I know, frivilous lawsuits abound. Well, if they are REALLY
frivilous they will be throw out of court. Labeling lawsuits you don't
like "frivilous" dose not make them frivilous. That's for a judge and
sometimes a jury to decide.
It's all about the money. A corporation's blood is money. The only way
to punish a corporation or to get it to change it's ways is to make it
BLEED. Bleed it white and "it" will finally listen.
Conservative administrations has de-fanged many of the reglatory
agencies such as OSHA. In many cases a lawsuit it the ONLY way left to
the citizen, or a group of them, to get compensation and/or any sort
of justice from a corporation. And that's why CorpoRat conservatives
are so hot about what they call "tort reform".
Got to go for now, lawn need mowing.
On Sep 17, 7:56 pm, Jim Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 1.Since Fannie and Freddie has been introduced to the American
> vernacular let’s start here. The government needs to get out of the
> mortgage business, once and for all. Both of these companies have been
> suckling at the teat of bloated federal plutocracies far too long.
> Fannie and Freddie need to be broken into a thousand pieces and
> privatized. The federal government should have no attachment or
> responsibility. And, the bailing out ends now, for good.
> 2.In promised entitlements our government is indebted $57 Trillion
> dollars. If not dealt with, it will destroy our country. Since
> government has proven that they are incapable of running anything…
> Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid should be privatized. The
> switch to privatization will be costly and take time to implement. To
> cover the initial cost increases see solution three.
> 3.There are far too many people in this country who have chosen to
> ride in the wagon while too few of us are pulling. Our tax policy
> rewards failure and punishes success guaranteeing less of one and more
> of the other. We should institute the, “Fair Tax” which abolishes the
> IRS and incorporates a federal sales tax instead of a payroll tax.
> With the fair tax, the burden is shared and pimps, hookers and drug
> dealers will finally carry their share of financing our federal
> government. Just maybe, with everyone pulling the wagon and sharing
> the burden, those not paying attention to federal spending might start
> doing so. Forty percent of Americans pay no federal tax yet take
> advantage of a great and greater share of our services.
> 4.Stop corporate pillaging, called the Breck girl law. Corporations
> spend billions of dollars each year defending themselves from John
> Edwards and the trial lawyers. A recent study found most of the
> plaintiff suits to be unworthy of litigation. The most egregious
> caveat of these suits is punitive damages. Compensatory damages
> compensate a plaintiff for any loss of earnings, medical bills or even
> the loss of life. Punitive damages are a punishment to a corporation.
> Yet, the corporation is not punished, the shareholders are, the actual
> owners who had nothing to do with the original wrong. Settlements
> should be limited to compensatory damages only.
> 5.As long as we are speaking of lawyers let’s right another wrong of
> jurisprudence. I’ve had it with perps across the fruited plain
> escaping punishment because their rights were violated. This is the
> dumbest ruling ever to come out of the United States Supreme Court.
> It’s known as fruit of the poisonous tree. Look, if some child rapist
> has his rights violated by some flatfoot in Podunk Louisiana then
> punish the damn cop. The raped child violated no ones rights, the cop
> did, punish him and lynch the rapist. The fact that his rights may
> have been violated does not affect his guilt or innocence.
> 6.Drill for oil everywhere. Let’s start by drilling through Harry
> Reid’s head, though I doubt we’d find anything. We have enough natural
> resources in this country, and off our shores to make $2 dollar gas
> plentiful for the next three hundred years. Standing in the way of
> this are Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Energy is the engine of our
> economy and must be secured at a reasonable price. So, first we drill
> through Harry and Nancy’s head and then we put oil derricks in the
> well of the senate and the house.
> 7.In a massive, “Manhattan project like” energy solution we approve
> licenses for 500 additional nuclear power plants. This will create
> millions of jobs while helping to make us energy independent. And, we
> should insist that they are breeder reactors allowing us to use the
> spent fissionable waste over and over. We shouldn’t stop building
> until America has that fluorescing green glow. Now that’s going green!
> 8.We should stop pussyfooting with countries who have sworn to destroy
> us. Iran has threatened to annihilate Israel and the United States.
> They are currently building nuclear weapons to do so. What in the hell
> are we waiting for? We should squash these little pissants like the
> bugs they are. How do you negotiate with those animals intent on your
> destruction and are building weapons to do so?
> 9.In Chicago, just recently, a teacher was caught on film, not
> teaching but robbing a bank at gunpoint. Because of the teachers union
> this extra curricular activity was punished by removing the teacher
> from the classroom and giving him a much higher paying job in
> educational administration. In some cities we are spending as much as
> $25 thousand dollars per student, per year, only to have a drop out
> rate of more than fifty percent. Education must be privatized and the
> teachers union emasculated. Hey, aren’t liberal always harping on,
> “the children”? If they really cared, many teachers and union leaders
> would be hanging in our town squares.
> 10.The federal government needs to get back to enumerated powers,
> those authorities given to them by our constitution. The federal
> government enjoys the constitutional ability to provide for a common
> defense, print a national currency and settle disputes between the
> states in the area of commerce, PERIOD. {emphasis mine} The tenth
> amendment provides, “The powers not delegated to the United States by
> the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
> the States respectively, or to the people. Simply put; if powers are
> not within the text of our constitution then they don’t exist. The
> federal government has their respective fingers in every pie and we
> the people need to cut them off and remind them of our founders’
> intent. After all, if we don't do it, who will?
>
> Conservative Springfield 18 Sep 08
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