Why isn't someone in jail?

[ThomWV]

Why isn't someone in jail? That's all I want to know. If you come home to your house and find the front door kicked in and everything of value you have ever managed to acquire gone you would know you had been robbed. How is it any different now? Why haven't these thieves in the night been charged with the massive theft of our nation. They have stolen so much it is crippling our entire economy. There are people at the top who have amassed personal booty worth billions. Why in hell aren't the courts clogged with CEO defendants?

[villager]

1. They own the jails.

n/t

[pnutbutr]

2. off balance

They are paid ever increaseing salaries and bonuses while the regular employees of the company get cuts in their cost of living raises. US has by far the higest difference between CEO and employee pay of any nation on the planet.

[Captain Hilts]

3. Good question. They've paid off too many people. I am glad to see Sen. Obama...

supporting the legislation denying the CEOs of Fannie and Freddie their multi-million dollar parachutes. That's a start.

FDR: I called them 'economic royalists'.
ER: I called them 'greedy'.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. I'm waiting for the final insult of taxpayers paying Christmas bonuses.