Unjust Rewards Quotes
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
In the Great Recession thousands of bank executives of the banks that received government bailouts committed fraud and perjury providing false information under oath and foreclosing on mortgages illegally. There were so many bank felons that the Justice Department decided not to prosecute any of them and let the Banks pay relatively small fines instead. Then the banks paid the crooked employees bonuses. Paul was one of the few members of Congress who favored prosecution of all the guilty bankers regardless of the number.
He was a strong foe of both Communism and Capitalism. He was one of the first critics to describe the de facto inequality of Communism.
As this quotation demonstrates, this problem has plagued America for a long time. In terms of crimes committed, for example, General Electric Corporation has committed more crimes than any other criminal enterprise, but it thrives despite this and the penalties are seen as just a slap on the wrist when they do get caught but they do not even get prosecuted for many of their crimes like most large corporations and rich individuals who commit crimes. The people who go to jail are usually the lower level or middle level criminals and the kingpins, the ones with the control and the money, rarely even get prosecuted. In the Great Recession, the largest banks in America committed tens of thousands of serious crimes by forging signatures and making false claims on legal documents. Not a single executive ever went to jail or was even given a suspended sentence. The banks paid small fines.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
