Classic-Xer
You meant to say the Acireman people instead of the American right. OK, right now you're on fire internally and smoking a bit but you haven't quite figured out that you're going down in a ball of flame yet.[/quote]
Need I remind you?
As a general rule, accounting fraud once detected is economic and professional death.
That's how it went with Charles Keating, John Rigas, Bernie Ebbers, and the beloved crew at Enrob Corporation. Business failure does not send one to prison, but when one cooks the books to make a money-losing entity look profitable or cheats the tax authorities through fraudulence the legal system isn't so sympathetic. Many businesses fail in our competitive, largely free-enterprise system. Even an unprofitable company can stimulate prosperity among others by hiring people and buying stuff. Cheats and frauds do far more harm than good. We may not have debtors' prisons which would do more to condemn people to poverty through excessive caution, but we do send fraudsters to prison. Some companies (like Sears and K-Mart) die when their assets can not buy the innovation necessary for survival. Nobody is going to prison for the inevitable, terminal rot of Sears.
Make fraudulent statements about solvency to a lender, and you are at best gambling on other people's money. Such is a waste of capital. Cheat on taxes and you create severe resentments among taxpayers.
If integrity is not an expected norm in business, then one has a kleptocratic or aristocratic order in which the vast majority of people have no stake in the order.
For four dreary years Donald Trump was President, and he assumed (wrongly) that he had nearly-dictatorial powers. Joe Biden was lawfully elected to be President, and aside from such powers as the Constitution allots to him directly, he has none that Congress does not authorize. Biden better understands how the Presidency works.Whether he will be up to the challenge of Vladimir Putin's dreams of an expansionist regime is yet to be known. Trump would have sold out to Putin through appeasement.
We have a chance with Biden as President, and things would have steadily gotten worse under Trump.
Reality can hurt us all badly when we deny its consequences. Truth is often the pain and loss that follows from stupid deeds.
Better a sane liberal than a fascist seeking to impose his perverse dream that brings shame and pain upon innocent people conned into falling for fascism or upon even-more-innocent who knew what little they could get from fascism and could neither escape nor face its worst. I have no use for evil; it offers nothing except with ugly strings attached. Such includes culpability.
(02-20-2022, 02:09 PM)David Horn Wrote:(02-20-2022, 12:42 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: On the 290th birthday of our first President, the one who largely established through his conduct what the Presidency is (no powers other than those few delegated by the Constitution or authorized for the time by Congress) Donald Trump starts his new social platform.
Meanwhile the accounting firm that signed off on some of his latest financial statements now repudiates them as unreliable. As a general rule, accounting fraud once detected is economic and professional death. If he should make ago of it (unlikely because he is too lazy) such would be one of the most perverse miracles in history.
Never underestimate the naivete of the American people. Stupidity is no deterrent to the kind of success DJT is interested in creating.
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You meant to say the Acireman people instead of the American right. OK, right now you're on fire internally and smoking a bit but you haven't quite figured out that you're going down in a ball of flame yet.[/quote]
Need I remind you?
As a general rule, accounting fraud once detected is economic and professional death.
That's how it went with Charles Keating, John Rigas, Bernie Ebbers, and the beloved crew at Enrob Corporation. Business failure does not send one to prison, but when one cooks the books to make a money-losing entity look profitable or cheats the tax authorities through fraudulence the legal system isn't so sympathetic. Many businesses fail in our competitive, largely free-enterprise system. Even an unprofitable company can stimulate prosperity among others by hiring people and buying stuff. Cheats and frauds do far more harm than good. We may not have debtors' prisons which would do more to condemn people to poverty through excessive caution, but we do send fraudsters to prison. Some companies (like Sears and K-Mart) die when their assets can not buy the innovation necessary for survival. Nobody is going to prison for the inevitable, terminal rot of Sears.
Make fraudulent statements about solvency to a lender, and you are at best gambling on other people's money. Such is a waste of capital. Cheat on taxes and you create severe resentments among taxpayers.
If integrity is not an expected norm in business, then one has a kleptocratic or aristocratic order in which the vast majority of people have no stake in the order.
Quote: Who (pointless profanity excised) is in charge? Is Trump in charge or is Brandon in charge?
For four dreary years Donald Trump was President, and he assumed (wrongly) that he had nearly-dictatorial powers. Joe Biden was lawfully elected to be President, and aside from such powers as the Constitution allots to him directly, he has none that Congress does not authorize. Biden better understands how the Presidency works.Whether he will be up to the challenge of Vladimir Putin's dreams of an expansionist regime is yet to be known. Trump would have sold out to Putin through appeasement.
We have a chance with Biden as President, and things would have steadily gotten worse under Trump.
Quote: Who (pointless profanity excised) is getting burned/hurt by the truth?
Reality can hurt us all badly when we deny its consequences. Truth is often the pain and loss that follows from stupid deeds.
Quote:Did you vote for Biden/Brandon? How old are you? How poor are you? What color of skin do you have? You're to old and to wealthy and have no excuse as far as you're race goes for you to get away with being naive or ignorant, don't you think? Facebook just lost 30 Billion. Any idea where that 30 billion is going to end up? Dude, you are outmatched and you have already lost the support of the bulk of the American people. At what point do you and others look in the mirror and admit to yourselves that you're a bunch of morons???????????????? Americans aren't going to care about what happens to a bunch of morons anymore than I'm going to care about what happens to a bunch of Liberals.
Better a sane liberal than a fascist seeking to impose his perverse dream that brings shame and pain upon innocent people conned into falling for fascism or upon even-more-innocent who knew what little they could get from fascism and could neither escape nor face its worst. I have no use for evil; it offers nothing except with ugly strings attached. Such includes culpability.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.