Wednesday, April 14, 2010
A modest proposal, just a matter of spelling.
Here's a very simple step that would go a long way toward solving America's problems.
And it would only take a bit of editing.
Run through all Federal laws, replacing words and phrases as follows:
Change "possession of marijuana"
to "possession of stock options."
Change "possession of heroin"
to "possession of securitized mortgages."
Change "possession of cocaine"
to "possession of Credit Default Swaps."
Then edit the prison population accordingly. Remove druggies (provided they aren't also in jail for real crimes, which many of them are) and replace them with Wall Street Mafiosi.
Sincedrug stock laws already provide for confiscating all money and property involved in the drug stock traffic, this would also bring in a tremendous windfall to the Treasury.
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And it would only take a bit of editing.
Run through all Federal laws, replacing words and phrases as follows:
Change "possession of marijuana"
to "possession of stock options."
Change "possession of heroin"
to "possession of securitized mortgages."
Change "possession of cocaine"
to "possession of Credit Default Swaps."
Then edit the prison population accordingly. Remove druggies (provided they aren't also in jail for real crimes, which many of them are) and replace them with Wall Street Mafiosi.
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