Guess who opened the first soup kitchens during the Great depression?

[Ichingcarpenter]

He was the first to open soup kitchens after the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to give clothes and food to the needy at his expense.

http://www.chicagohs.org/history/capone/cpn2.html

At the outset of the Depression, Al Capone, the notorious gangster from Chicago, established the first soup kitchen. He started it because he wanted to clean up his shady image. Capone`s kitchen served three meals a day to ensure that everyone who had lost a job could get a meal.
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1660.html





I loved at the end of that show they worried about what might happen to that planet.

[shenmue]

1. Wow

I had heard about that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. I was watching on line

a British program on him. He was like Koch in the way he controlled the city.
Many loved him because they had nothing else and he gave them food and he knew he could capitalize on it for support since it cost him so little.


These days the one percent don't care.

They already own the planet.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. BTW the Yakuza are using Goldman Sachs as their model

No irony therez`


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516479/Japanese-mobsters-Goldman-Sachs-guns-Executives-Japanese-banks-apologise-lending-millions-underworld-figures.html

[bravenak]

3. The drug dealers in my neighborhood give out turkey's at thanksgiving.

I have no ideas where they get all of those turkeys, but I see them dropping them off in pickup trucks. They used to buy us ice cream and give us money as kids too. Never said no.

Bad people do good things all the time, the worlds not so black and white. He probably did much more for the poor than our bankers ever did for us when they crashed our economy this time. I believe we are paying them for crashing the economy.

[ck4829]

5. Finally, an example of trickle down economics working for everyone

[Javaman]

6. Capone was a thug.

like any good crime boss, he treats the locals well to gain their support, once having it, he then shakes them down for protection money which they "gladly" give because he fed them once.

it's an old scam in the mafia. Don't believe for a minute he did it out of the goodness of his heart.

capone was as sociopath.

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. And my point was?

Or inference to today's reality?

We have had many discussions on DU on corporate and political sociopaths.

[Javaman]

19. I don't know...

You didn't make a point, just a statement and a couple of links.

[Skittles]

8. long ago I knew a guy in Illinois who ran errands for Al Capone as a child

he said it helped to feed his large family during the depression.....he said he knew Al sometimes made up errands just to give him money because he knew the kid was too proud to take charity

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. He was the one percent and knew

how to manipulate and bribe or kill his to the top. Probably worth a billion these days.

I guess the point I'm making with this is
He was American as apple pie but in the end.......... the IRS got him.

Just like the banks get caught these days......LOL

The British program was very good

[longship]

10. Anybody for a game of Fizzbin?

I've got a kronk!

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. You must work for the banking syndicate.

LOL



We call that game these days
playing Libor key market interest rate benchmark

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19323954

[longship]

12. You want a piece of the action?

[Archae]

16. How about a game of Fizzbin?

[longship]

17. As I wrote above, I'm holding a kronk.

Which means that you lose.


Do you know the odds of being dealt a kronk? In this case, it's 100%. Hehehe.

[Egalitarian Thug]

13. That's always been the difference between the ethnic gangs and the established auhtority.

The gangs came to be because they provided what we wouldn't, and they took care of the neighborhood.

They're all psychopathic scumbags, but the gangsters have always been more generous than the "legitimate" authorities. We live this here in Vegas every day. Talk to any of the old-timers that lived here through the mob days and they'll tell you it was much better when the gangsters ran the town.

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. They are less sophisticated these days

at least they and the romans kings played bread and circus

But how do you that theme world wide?

Well I guess they have their ways.

[uppityperson]

14. My gram. If you want a positive example

[Archae]

15. Recognize that guy on the left of the .GIF?

That Vic Tayback, better known as "Mel" on the TV show "Alice."