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    Default Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87

    The longest-serving U.S. senator in Michigan history, Mr. Levin was regarded by colleagues and Washington observers as a paragon of probity.

    Carl Levin, a liberal Michigan Democrat who served 36 years in the Senate and scared the wits out of America’s biggest C.E.O.s by demanding explanations for shadowy schemes that hid billions in profits overseas and avoided vast corporate taxes at home, died on Thursday in Detroit. He was 87.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/u...evin-dead.html

    He used to be my Senator. A good man. Old school, worked for the good of the nation.

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    And nothing of value was lost.
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    The fields of mediocre chicken sandwiches shall be sowed with salt, so that nothing may ever grow there again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sigmund Freud View Post
    The fields of mediocre chicken sandwiches shall be sowed with salt, so that nothing may ever grow there again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    And nothing of value was lost.
    Well, you're a nihilist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    Stupid. Like your fellow know nothing right wingers.

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    The link is well worth a read:

    Teaser:

    Financial Exposure: Carl Levin's Senate Investigations into Finance and Tax Abuse

    By Elise J. Bean

    Palgrave Macmillan

    This article appears in the Fall 2018 issue of The American Prospect. Subscribe here.

    Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who retired in 2015, was one of the Senate's legendary workhorse progressives. He used his chairmanship of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations to probe the corruption of American capitalism as enabled by feeble or complicit government policies. One of his prime subjects was tax evasion. Indeed, a lot of what we know about techniques of tax avoidance and evasion is courtesy of Levin's work and that of his staff.

    For 15 years, Elise Bean, a lawyer educated at the University of Michigan, worked as an investigator and then staff director and chief counsel for Levin's subcommittee. Bean passes on in plain English what she learned about the secretive schemes of people who owe their fortunes to the American system, but lack the character to behave with integrity. Individual dishonesty—mere venality—is not her focus. Rather, she looks at the system and at how weak government rules, insufficient to nonexistent oversight, and abuse of power by corporate interests, especially at some of the “too big to fail” banks and the Big Four accounting firms, promote and protect white-collar criminality.
    https://prospect.org/power/tax-evasion-exposed/
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    It is believed that he was worth less than $3 million when he died.....that's a honest Joe.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Well, you're a nihilist.
    State officials aren't human and will not be treated as such by me. They're scum to a man and I will rejoice every time God sends one to hell.
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    The fields of mediocre chicken sandwiches shall be sowed with salt, so that nothing may ever grow there again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    State officials aren't human and will not be treated as such by me. They're scum to a man and I will rejoice every time God sends one to hell.
    You don't believe in God, you believe in Satan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    You don't believe in God, you believe in Satan.
    I know what I believe in a lot better than you Chang.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    I know what I believe in a lot better than you Chang.
    I only know what you say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I only know what you say.
    You don't actually, not understanding the nuance and colloquialisms of English is a big hindrance for you.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    You don't actually, not understanding the nuance and colloquialisms of English is a big hindrance for you.
    I understood you quite well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    I understood you quite well.
    And yet you didn't.
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    Quote Originally Posted by /MSG/ View Post
    And yet you didn't.
    The myth of Satan from the Bible is that he is a fallen angel. Satan is reactionary and petty. Thus, Satan represents hatred, resentment, and contempt.

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