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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAl Capone never created wealth, just transferred it to himself. Like Mi$$ Rmoney. The
people who created the wealth worked in the factory and on the floor, and paid the price for that theft.
One died with no real friends, out of his mind. We will see about the other. Because things sometimes have a way of coming back around.
Drale
(7,932 posts)He would buy food for people, and pay the medical bills of anyone who was injured in an attempt on his life. Would Mittens ever do anything close to that?
Also I would trust my life to Al over Mittens any day of the week.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)And to run his empire he had to pay off a lot of people of modest means, like cops, small businessmen, and that money was pumped back into the economy.
Prohibition was such bullshit, and I have little doubt that if Ramney was alive in 1920, he would have been screeching for it along with all the Anti-Saloon League fanatics.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)most of his money was made bootlegging to thirsty Chicagoans.
chollybocker
(3,687 posts)Al Capone made most of his money from bootlegging, gambling, extortion; all illegal activities in his time. He was done in by the IRS.
Romney made his money through hostile takeovers, firing people, and off-shore investing. All legal and encouraged by gov't legislation. The IRS would never dare audit Romney.
The laws are the problem, not human nature.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)a murdering syphilitic (and now zombie) thug, or Mi$$ Rmoney, Capone would win. Hands down.
Because people think they know how to protect themselves against criminals and zombies, but not private equity vultures like Rmoney.
People will learn more as about 300 or 400 billion of the debt those buyouts done in the past decade or so comes due and must be re-financed between now and 2014. And those companies who go under will leave behind billions in debt and scores of thousands of ruined lives.
Interest rates are lower but there is much less demand than when some of these were structured.
And ol' Mi$$ stands up there and straight-faced lies about how 80% of the buyouts are doing just fine. Who cares? Look at the ruined lives you left behind you thieving piece of trash.
Raine
(30,540 posts)to talk to but Rmoney would sit there like some uncomfortable lunkhead probably saying nothing. A robot like Rmoney can't talk to a human being.
jtuck004
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