When will the greed and corruption of the political class and their capitalist friends cease

[malaise]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/07/jerome-cahuzac-swiss-bank-account
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Disgraced former government minister Jérôme Cahuzac was reported to have tried to deposit €15m (£12.7m) into a Geneva bank four years ago, in the latest twist to a scandal that has rocked France.

Cahuzac was forced to resign from his job as budget minister in charge of clamping down on tax evasion last month after it was revealed he had hidden €600,000 from the French taxman in a secret Swiss bank account.

The minister had vigorously denied the allegations, protesting his innocence face to face with President François Hollande and before the French parliament, saying: "I do not have a foreign bank account."

Last week, however, he admitted he had lied, causing shock waves though political circles and among the public. A poll on Sunday revealed almost one third of French electors wanted the Assemblée Nationale dissolved and new legislative elections less than a year after the last.

The scandal has sparked one of the worst political crises in decades and added huge pressure to the beleaguered Hollande.
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I can't take much more of this

[Phlem]

1. I think I've heard somewhere that

Greed never sleeps nor rests.



That's the way we need to pay attention to politics from now on.

-p

[Cal Carpenter]

2. Not until we have a system that doesn't reward such behavior.

Until then, it will of course continue. Even if we jail thousands of them.

Capitalism rewards concentration of power. It rewards greed, it rewards exploitation of people & their labor, resources, any imaginable loopholes, corruption, greed, grift, and immorality.

Unless/until our economic system is rearranged, and I mean globally, these fuckers will keep on winning, and more and more people will lose.