If one compares the values of "White collar crime" to "Petty crime", then you might lean towards disbanding the police and just fire the Accountants and Lawyers. Civilization would save soooo much money!
something like that , considering my time in big city and all the petty crimes committed, three stolen bikes, two hit and run on a parked vehicle, one in a downtown parking lot and one while parked in front of my apartment, a car break in (broke the rear window) where the thief got a bag of clean laundry, a car break in of an acquaintance where the thief got the coins in the ashtray, I was present at the time, a burglary where the thief got the rent money, one slashed tire for no reason that I could surmise, one stolen box, like a trunk, out of an S10 with some expensive work items, locked but not secured to the bed so the thief lifted the entire box. The entire amount in cash for one business day stolen from a business I had.
there are more in the fifteen years or so I was dumb enough to live in a big city or any city for that matter.
None of the incidents happened in the bad crime ridden areas. The police did nothing in any of the incidents that were brought to their attention. The lone uniformed cop said renter's insurance would pay for something. I didn't have renter's insurance.
Don't get me started on experiences in Mexico, central and south america.
I understand how it hurts individuals Wilson. But, consider the scale. The crimes you describe cost 'hundreds', Government and corporate crime cost 'Millions' and sometimes 'Billions?'
I estimate that Canada loses 30% of GDP to corruption, and the Politicians don't suffer at all?
I completely agree with you. Of course corruption by government is enormous and destructive. How does does solyndra and shovel ready projects etc even happen? How else do congress critters/bureaucrats who never had a job outside government directly or indirectly are worth multiple millions? They are all like that. The longer they are in office the wealthier they get. The entire system is rotten to the core. Everything with government is a lie and fraud. In fact fraud, waste, corruption, greed and power are government.
I was really trying to say crime is relative in scale and is harmful to everyone.
Sometimes the corruption is relatively minor. As a border patrol agent in the dark ages we filled out our own time sheets. The the unspoken directive was everyone works 12 hours a day. That was a lie. But not on the timesheets. Normal corruption adds up.
The purpose- show congress this is how hard the border patrol works - bigger budget - more money.
Also the horrendous fraud of the rubber stamping as a result of the Simpson-Mazzoli act.
there were other examples, I quit after I got off probation.
Yep...'Corruption is contagious and "Normalized". Probably 80% of the population practices corruption to some extent? Worse yet there is little moral constraint against it; when everyone is doing 'it', why not me?
More laws to tighten the nooses around our necks while the politicians and elites are allowed to break them all. Lets face it, they all hate us.
They despise outsiders, and treat them like pests.
At last. Making laws is criminal.
Sure looks to me that government is nothing more than a criminal enterprise and we have seen the results of that over and over.
Neither can exist without the other...?
If one compares the values of "White collar crime" to "Petty crime", then you might lean towards disbanding the police and just fire the Accountants and Lawyers. Civilization would save soooo much money!
something like that , considering my time in big city and all the petty crimes committed, three stolen bikes, two hit and run on a parked vehicle, one in a downtown parking lot and one while parked in front of my apartment, a car break in (broke the rear window) where the thief got a bag of clean laundry, a car break in of an acquaintance where the thief got the coins in the ashtray, I was present at the time, a burglary where the thief got the rent money, one slashed tire for no reason that I could surmise, one stolen box, like a trunk, out of an S10 with some expensive work items, locked but not secured to the bed so the thief lifted the entire box. The entire amount in cash for one business day stolen from a business I had.
there are more in the fifteen years or so I was dumb enough to live in a big city or any city for that matter.
None of the incidents happened in the bad crime ridden areas. The police did nothing in any of the incidents that were brought to their attention. The lone uniformed cop said renter's insurance would pay for something. I didn't have renter's insurance.
Don't get me started on experiences in Mexico, central and south america.
I understand how it hurts individuals Wilson. But, consider the scale. The crimes you describe cost 'hundreds', Government and corporate crime cost 'Millions' and sometimes 'Billions?'
I estimate that Canada loses 30% of GDP to corruption, and the Politicians don't suffer at all?
I completely agree with you. Of course corruption by government is enormous and destructive. How does does solyndra and shovel ready projects etc even happen? How else do congress critters/bureaucrats who never had a job outside government directly or indirectly are worth multiple millions? They are all like that. The longer they are in office the wealthier they get. The entire system is rotten to the core. Everything with government is a lie and fraud. In fact fraud, waste, corruption, greed and power are government.
I was really trying to say crime is relative in scale and is harmful to everyone.
Sometimes the corruption is relatively minor. As a border patrol agent in the dark ages we filled out our own time sheets. The the unspoken directive was everyone works 12 hours a day. That was a lie. But not on the timesheets. Normal corruption adds up.
The purpose- show congress this is how hard the border patrol works - bigger budget - more money.
Also the horrendous fraud of the rubber stamping as a result of the Simpson-Mazzoli act.
there were other examples, I quit after I got off probation.
Yep...'Corruption is contagious and "Normalized". Probably 80% of the population practices corruption to some extent? Worse yet there is little moral constraint against it; when everyone is doing 'it', why not me?
Here is a vid you may find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwV-Zhwb9I
My first one is from Nevada, but my current state, KY, doesn't require registration, either.