<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/769b422d-f162-4800-96d3-50a06504c072/6E2C3CE4-1AC0-42BB-963A-AA26606D331C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/" href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/"><P class="storyheadline">The Madoff Sentence: Swindle the Rich? Get 150 Years. Swindle the Poor? Who Cares?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/"><DIV class="teaserleft"> Surely I'm not the only one who sees this as just the sort of ridiculously excessive sentence that's reserved for scapegoats. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/"><P>Let me be perfectly clear: I have no sympathy for Bernie Madoff, not a single, solitary, infinitesimal iota.<BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/"><P>But surely I am not the only person who reads that he's been <A href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/business/30madoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">sentenced to 150 years in prison</A> and sees the sort of ridiculously excessive sentence that's typically reserved for scapegoats. <BR /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/140986/the_madoff_sentence%3A_swindle_the_rich_get_150_years._swindle_the_poor_who_cares/"><P>It's just a little fucked up that the asshole who swindled rich people gets 150 years, but most of the assholes who swindled poor people haven't even lost their jobs. And that's to say nothing of the assholes staffed by the regulatory bodies whose enormous incompetence enabled Madoff's crimes, no less members of the administration under whose watch the economy collapsed.<BR /></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6E2C3CE4-1AC0-42BB-963A-AA26606D331C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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