They scream about “systemic racism”. Actually, it’s systemic plutocracy. De facto racism ensues. naturally A key to plutocratism, the power of evil systematized, is inequality: some eat, others get eaten. In modern society, as in Roman society, the power of evil shows up with giant income inequality. And just as in Rome, the power of magistrates and lawyers is key to systemic abuse… As they impose it (example in modern US, “Jim Crow laws” and “New Jim Crow” of 1994, authored by no less than Joe Biden).
To put it simply, some of those firms supposed to uphold the law, are made of thieves… And it is the case of the firm most tied to the Democratic Party, Boeis. Thieves? Indeed these “loans” are “FORGIVABLE”.
[The following comment was censored by the New York Times: it criticized law firms most of which support the so-called “Democratic Party. For example the firm Boies, supported (half-heartedly; actually, faking it…) Gore against Bush…]
Law firms and lawyers are not supposed to be around mostly for money. They are supposed, primarily, to uphold the law. Upholding the law starts with upholding its spirit. In particular, the spirit of equality of all to the law. When Congress passed a stimulus law and the president signed it, the idea, the spirit, was to preserve the employment and livelihood of dozens of millions of small earners: the government, through banks, would enable somebody earning $30,000 to keep on supporting a family, by keeping that income.
Instead, owners of large law firms, in some cases law firms where each partner earns more than three million dollars a year, decided to add stimulus money to their firms’ revenues… instead of reducing their enormous incomes to pay their own employees. This demonstrates how greedy and corrupt those supposed defenders of the law have become. It is alarming to see that those supposed to defend justice have no idea that it is unjust for them to make even more money than they used to, by diverting money which was meant for the poor, people earning 1% of what they earn. I heard a top law firm partner earning millions, say of the stimulus:”It’s free money!”
More than 40 law firms with more than 100 million in revenues last year received loans between 5 and 10 million dollars.
At Boies, partners made an average of 3 millions: owners should have redistributed some of their colossal incomes of 200 times the minimum wage, to employees. Instead of stealing it from We The People.
Patrice Ayme
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After the NYT published an article on the corruption in stimulus money distribution, higher ups obviously realized many of people connected to prominent democrats were involved. So the comment section was closed in a rush…
Lobbyists, Law Firms and Trade Groups Took Small-Business Loans
The Trump administration began releasing details of which businesses received Paycheck Protection Program aid.
…”More than 100 law firms received loans ranging from $1 million to $10 million, the data showed. The list included well-known names like Boies Schiller Flexner, the high-priced law firm run by David Boies, which received between $5 million and $10 million. “We don’t comment on our financials,” the firm said…
Several firms that advise companies on how to deal with the government, but are not officially registered to lobby, were also said to have received loans. They include companies run by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served in the Clinton administration.”
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The following comment sent to the NYT after a Krugman editorial accusing Trump of the virus (he literally called him a virus!) was not censored, but just delayed to the next day (that boils down to the same)