I guess you can't read.
Funny, you had no problem when Bush was redistributing wealth from the middle class to the wealthy for 8 years.
Why is this Stevie? It is like these guys use welfare people to avoid this argument u present. Like they link us to welfare people as if we are happy they are getting welfare :shrug: Stranges thing i ever saw. White Collar crime is just fine with them. Regulation and rules are bad. Funny how crooks also hate regulations and rules. Maybe we are debating a bunch of crooks? How could u think capitalism and deregulations is fine when u have crooks abusing them left and right? What are a few rules here and there gonna hurt? Crooks hate rules. Sure it sucks for the honest guy who is starting a business as well as most honest guys but when u have these crooks u have to do it. Not sure some of these guys know there are actually crooks in the country. I remember arguing with Weasel about the surveilance program. He was all for it but doesn't think it would be possible that some shitbag would abuse it for self gain. I said im okay with it if u add the death penalty on it for anyone caught abusing it. Sure enuf these fukers got caught abusing it when they should have been looking for terrorist. This is what crooks with an agenda and no rules do. Imagine how nice the nation would be if we had laws like this. This is what happens to crooks like ours when they pull their shit in China.
Two sentenced to death over China milk scandal
By Karl Malakunas
Agence France-Presse
January 22, 2009 09:57pm
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A CHINESE court has sentenced two men to death and gave stiff jail terms to 10 others over a milk scandal that led to widespread poisoning of babies in China and dairy recalls around the world.
The former head of the dairy firm at the heart of the scandal, Tian Wenhua, a 66-year-old woman accused of initially covering it up, was among three people jailed for life.
One other person was given a suspended death penalty, a sentence that routinely gets commuted to life in jail, while six were imprisoned for terms ranging from five to 15 years.
In all, 21 people have gone on trial in recent weeks for their involvement in making or selling the contaminated milk that last year killed at least six babies and left 294,000 others ill with kidney and urinary tract problems.
The government immediately sought to portray the verdicts as proof of its efforts to ensure China's food was safe, and that justice had been served, but victims' relatives accused authorities of holding show trials.
"They got the penalty they deserved, but I feel sorry about this whole affair," Liu Donglin, the father of a sickened baby, said outside the court in northern China where the verdicts were delivered.
"I think they are scapegoats. The milk producers' association and the people in charge of checking the milk should also be punished."
The two men given the death penalty were found guilty of endangering public security by adding the industrial chemical melamine into the milk and then selling it on to middle men.
The melamine, normally used to make plastics, was added into watered-down milk to give it the appearance of higher protein content.
Sanlu Group, formerly headed by Tian, was the first and biggest dairy producer found to have sold dairy products laced with melamine.
In all, 22 firms were found to have sold tainted milk.
After the verdicts were announced, the government said it was making great efforts to improve not only its milk industry, but all its food products, following numerous safety scandals in recent years.
"The Chinese government authorities have been paying great attention to food safety and product quality," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said.
"China is strictly handling the Sanlu case by law. After the case broke out, the Chinese government strengthened rules and regulations and took a lot of other measures to strengthen regulations and monitor food safety."
Aside from killing and sickening babies in China, the scandal led to contaminated Chinese dairy products being pulled off shelves around the world.
It was another major blow to the "Made-in-China" reputation that has suffered in recent years amid safety scandals over a wide range of exports, from toys to pet food and dumplings.
In its efforts to ease concerns domestically, the government last month ordered the 22 Chinese dairy firms to pay $US160 million ($A241.04 million) in compensation to the families of babies that died or fell ill.
However the families and their lawyers have criticised the sum as woefully inadequate, with some parents of sick children not being given any money at all and others receiving just $US300 ($A452).
Over 200 families last week filed a suit with the Supreme Court, seeking more compensation.
"They haven't given me any compensation. They haven't even recognised that my child died because of melamine," said Chang Lin, a farmer from Chongqing in southwest China whose 18-month-old son died in August, said.
