These men stole BILLIONS of dollars and helped destroy the Capitalist economic system which has led to the initial loss of trillions of dollars.

BERNIE MADOFF




ROBERT ALLEN STANFORD

- unlike Madoff, you can tell this guy is a scum bag just looking at him.




What is their punishment?

So far... nothing.

It is time for these kinds of people to get what they deserve. I call on the President to kill two birds with one stone by arresting these men and make good use of that soon to be empty prison in Cuba.

That's right - these economic murderers should be in Gitmo for life. No parole. No court hearings or appeals. No house arrest in their million dollar summer homes. No more gourmet meals and fine wines. They gave up those perks when they robbed the public of billions of dollars.

It's time to put fear into all the white collar criminals out there.

And trust me. This is only the tip of the ice-berg. The FBI is investigating over 500 similar cases of fraud.

We will soon be up to our necks in con men. Put them in Gitmo for life. They are the real threat to America, Capitalism, and prosperity everywhere.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have figured out how to get us out of this economic mess and stimulate the economy.

All we have to do is get the members of Congress to pay the back taxes they all owe, and we'll raise a lot more than 800 billion dollars!



$25,000







over $100,000!






$1000




How much more can we get out of Congress? They're trying to milk us for a trillion dollars - we should be milking them!

Brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever.






One of the questions people in Eastern Europe always ask me is, “Are people in America very fat?”

It’s a difficult question to answer for me, because in southern California, around the city of Los Angeles and Hollywood where I lived, many people are thin, muscular, and in great shape. They eat healthy, organic foods and they exercise regularly.

In other parts of the country, however, many people are extremely fat. They eat fatty, oily, fried foods, high calorie snacks, lots of fast food, and they almost never exercise. These people often weigh more than 150 kilograms, and you can see them moving slowly along the streets as if walking is a very difficult task for them.

One of my Ukrainian friends told me a story about when he flew on an airplane in America. The man next to him on the plane was so fat that he had to sit in two seats. My friend was shocked - he had never seen a person so fat in his entire life.

Because of the large number of overweight and obese people in America, diets are hugely popular. There are hundreds of diet books, diet theories, and diet foods that people can buy. Diets are a billion dollar business in America, but they rarely work the way they say they will. Often people who go on diets and lose a lot of weight end up gaining all of the weight back plus more.

Scientists have wondered about this problem for many years. Why do people gain all the weight back from their previous diets? Why can’t fat people stay thin?

Some say it is because of bad eating habits, some say it’s in our genes, and other doctors say that diets slow our metabolisms, therefore when we finish the diet and eat normal again our bodies are not able to process all the calories, and we store more fat.

Now, however, scientists think they have discovered the real reason. A new scientific study shows that the number of fat cells in our bodies cannot decrease. No matter how much you diet, you cannot decrease the number of fat cells that your body has, you can only remove the fat that is stored within the fat cells.

This is why it is so difficult to lose weight and prevent it from returning. Even if you lose a lot of fat, your empty fat cells will always be trying to store more fat. The study showed that even extreme surgical procedures, like gastric bypass surgery in which the size of the stomach is decreased, cannot reduce the number of fat cells in the body.

What is even more interesting is that the study found that the number of fat cells in our bodies is determined by age 20. After age 20 you cannot significantly increase or decrease the number of fat cells in your body. This means that our eating and exercise habits when we are young directly affect our bodies when we are older.

This is an important study for Americans, because children in America are becoming fatter and fatter. Many children have sedentary lifestyles, in which they sit on the couch watching television or playing video games most of the day, they do not play sports, they don’t play outside in nature, and they eat unhealthy, sugary, fatty snacks. Now we are beginning to understand the consequences of this behavior. A healthy or unhealthy lifestyle begins in childhood.

This reveals an important principle, not only for American children, but for Eastern Europe’s children as well. The habits and attitudes that we acquire in childhood directly affect our lives as adults. A good upbringing will prepare a child to be successful in all areas of his life, whereas a bad upbringing will give a child many disadvantages in adulthood.

In America, not only are inactivity and obesity problems that many children have today, but there are other major problems that children are not being warned about correctly. Teenage sexuality is a huge problem in America today, as it is in Ukraine. Teenagers are having sex at younger and younger ages, they are having children and spreading diseases and receiving deep psychological scars that they are not prepared for and which they cannot understand at such a young age.

In America this problem has led to huge numbers of singles mothers, a high divorce rate, children being raised by only one parent, the spread of deadly diseases like AIDS, and many other social problems related to deviant sexuality and poverty. These social problems are also associated with drug use, increased crime rates, abuse, and an increase in psychological disorders.

Of course, most people in America do not have these problems, but the number of US citizens with problems related to these issues is growing daily. The divorce rate in America is already over 50%. In the long run, these social problems will affect everyone in some way.

The same thing, unfortunately, is happening in Eastern Europe, and if the country does not change its moral and social attitudes soon, then Eastern Europe’s youth will suffer the same consequences that many of America’s youth have suffered. Eastern Europe cannot allow its youth to be raised by pop culture and capitalism.

Capitalism is an economic theory, and democracy is a political theory, but these are not moral or cultural systems. The post Soviet Union needs to find a way to balance its new political and economic world view with its old moral values and traditions. The freedom that Democracy brings and the money and prosperity that Capitalism brings are worthless if the society is not healthy and moral.

But like fat cells, these moral and cultural ideals must be instilled in childhood. It is very difficult to change the way an adult thinks. In the same way that you cannot decrease the number of fat cells in an adult, you cannot take away the habits and attitudes of most adults. It takes a radical experience to change an adult’s mind, and it also takes a willingness to change.

The good news, however, is that if you raise your children in a healthy manner, physically and psychologically, then they will have a good chance to be healthy for their entire lives. Let us hope that Eastern Europeans will be wise enough to take the good things from American culture, without absorbing the bad. People should pursue an American lifestyle without the fat.

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know why those doctors were wearing masks.
James H. Boren




As a foreigner in Ukraine I have made many incorrect assumptions based upon my experiences living in America. I assumed that my shower would always have hot water, I assumed that supermarkets would sell peanut butter, and I assumed that healthcare would be very expensive.

My first trip to a Ukrainian hospital was one that I will never forget. I was in the Carpathian Mountains skiing and snowboarding with a group of friends from America, Russia, and Ukraine. When engaged in athletic activities at high altitude like skiing, it is highly advisable to drink a lot of water. Otherwise, you can quickly become dehydrated.

Normally I would abide by this rule. However, up in the mountains in the middle of winter it was very cold, so I didn’t feel like I was becoming dehydrated. I am used to drinking water for free from the tap in America, but being in a foreign country, I refrained from consuming the local water. Also, the bottled water that they sold in our hotel was a strange kind of mineral water with a very bitter taste, so I had no desire to drink very much of it. All of these factors, combined with the high altitude and rigorous exercise, created a dangerous situation for my health.

After a full day of skiing and snowboarding, walking through the mountains, and site-seeing through the town, our Russian and Ukrainian friends invited us to go to the sauna. This was my final mistake. Whatever water and electrolytes I had remaining in my body after all of the rigorous exercise that day was washed away in the sauna sweat.

The next day I felt terrible and I couldn’t keep any liquids in my body. I knew that I was dehydrated. I tried to rest and drink lots of water and juice, but I wasn’t recovering fast enough. We had to take a train to Moscow the next day, and I needed to recover before then. I was going to have to do something that I had feared since the day I had arrived in Ukraine: I was going to have to go to a Ukrainian hospital.

Why was I worried about going to a hospital in Ukraine? Because I assumed that the costs would be similar to the costs in the US. In America, a visit to the hospital is very expensive. It can cost over $100 for a simple visit and consultation to any doctor. A trip to the emergency room, where I would need to go in order to get saline solution injected into my veins to help my dehydration, could cost $1000 or more.

At 3 in the morning, just hours before our train to Moscow, I was taken to the hospital in a quiet Carpathian town. The doctors were all asleep, and the head nurse examined me. She didn’t think anything was wrong with me, and in fact I believe she thought that I was drunk, since the symptoms of dehydration and drunkenness are very similar, and drunkenness is not only common in Ukraine, it is practically a national pastime. I knew, however, that I was in fact dehydrated and that I desperately needed some saline solution in order to survive my 36 hour train ride.

The nurse woke up a doctor who also thought that I was drunk, but after a lengthy and confusing discussion, (I spoke no Russian at the time), he finally agreed to give me the saline solution. You can imagine my horror when, thinking that a brief visit to an American Emergency room would cost me a minimum of $1000, the doctor turned on all the lights in the small hospital, took me into the operating room, and woke up the other five doctors and nurses who worked there. Here I was simply in need of saline solution, but they had awoken the entire hospital staff. In America, each doctor that examines you will charge you a different amount, so I was imagining 5 different medical bills, and I was thinking that this little treatment would probably cost me thousands of dollars.

The treatment was good and fast, and I was soon on my way home. But before I left, I handed the doctor my US Medical Insurance Card to prepare for what I believed would be an enormous payment. In America, you pay hundreds of dollars every month to a medical insurance company, which helps pay the hospitals for your visits. This decreases the costs of medical visits and procedures, but you have to pay in advance, just like with car insurance. Without medical insurance, no one in America would be able to afford our extremely expensive healthcare costs.

The Ukrainian doctor simply looked at my medical insurance card and laughed. I was worried that this might mean that he wouldn’t be able to use the card and that I would have to pay the full price, which I was certain would be $1000 or more. He wrote something on a piece of paper and said “20 grevens”. I was shocked. They had woken up the entire hospital, turned on all the lights, injected me with three or four bottles of saline solution, observed me for over an hour, and the cost would only be the equivalent of about 4 dollars. I didn’t know what to say. I was so grateful that I started handing money to all the doctors. Certainly they deserved more than 20 grevens for more than an hour’s work at 3 in the morning.

I must say that I was never happier to be in Ukraine than at that moment. Good healthcare at an incredibly cheap price relieved many of my concerns about living in this country. Of course, the well trained doctors deserve much better salaries than what they earn now, but for the common people, there is nothing better than knowing that in the case of an emergency, it will not kill you financially to get better physically.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain… and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

I recently saw the new Indiana Jones movie (I know I'm about 6 months behind - I was out of the country, okay?). I have to say I was wildly disappointed with the film. It wasn't that my expectations were too high - it was that my expectations were simply based on this planet. I loved the religious mysticism of the first 3 films, but aliens? I just couldn't buy it.

Which brings me to another group of people whose expectations seem... out of this world. That would be the Communist Party.

I know what you're thinking - They still exist? Yes. Not only do they still exist, but they are still pushing their failed program's propaganda. Note this Russian article's statement: "the dissolution of the Soviet Union remains one of the greatest tragedies of modern contemporary history." Propaganda anyone?

A few months ago the St. Petersburg Communist Party Chief Sergei Malinkovich stated his outrage at the new Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The film is set in 1957 during the period when the United States and the Soviet Union became hostile towards one another, and the antagonists in the film are Communist agents trying to steal a mystical crystal skull that could give them ultimate power to rule the world.

Malinkovich is angry about the film because he believes that young people in Russia will think that the story is a true representation of history. He said that they don’t know the real history of what was happening in the Soviet Union in 1957, so they will believe whatever Hollywood shows them. Other Communist Party members agreed and said that America was trying to trick people and make children afraid of Communists.

They also said the actors Harrison Ford and Kate Blanchet were helping the CIA spread propaganda against the Communist Party, and that these actors should never be allowed to enter Russia.

I have to admit that when I heard these comments from the Communist Party, I laughed out loud. Are they really worried about Indiana Jones’s perspective on the Communist Party in 1957? Are they so insecure about how people think about them that they have to make a public statement concerning a popcorn action movie for teenagers? Do they really think Indiana Jones is in the CIA? Maybe Chubarashka (Russia's version of Mickey Mouse) works for the KGB, or is it the FSB now?

This is why most Americans don’t respect the Communist Party. The Communist Party is too serious, and they think everything is a threat to national security. They think that movies for children are going to threaten their power and authority, and they claim that we are disrespecting the accomplishments of the Soviet people. In America, we do not laugh at the Soviet people or at their accomplishments. In fact, we highly respect, and sometimes even fear, the strength and intelligence of the Soviet people.

However, at the same time, we think that the Communist Party, the corrupt and paranoid system of government that stole billions of dollars from the Soviet people and which lied to and murdered its citizens for decades, is ridiculous. We view it as tyrannical, hyper-critical, inefficient, inherently dishonest and corrupt, and in modern times, obsolete.

The thing that I find the most amusing about this situation is that the Communist Party is complaining about propaganda. Never in Russia’s history has a political party twisted the truth or used propaganda to control the people more than the Communist Party. They lied about everything. For them to complain about the use of propaganda in a film would be like Hitler complaining about ethnic prejudice towards Germans.

Perhaps they haven’t seen the original three Indian Jones movies, in which Indiana fought against the Nazis to prevent them from finding magical items which would enable them to take over the world. These films are not historical documentaries.

In the second Indiana Jones movie, a Hindu cult is shown eating live snakes and bugs, serving monkey brains for desert, and then a cult priest tears a man’s heart out of his chest with his bare hands. In the film, the cult was said to worship the Hindu goddess, Kali, known as the goddess of death and destruction. In reality, Kali is the goddess of time and change, but there were no protests or complaints by Hindu leaders at the outrageous events in the film.

They understood that it was just a movie.

No one believes that the Nazi’s tried to steal the ancient Ark of the Covenant in order to use it to conquer the world, or that Hitler wanted to find the Holy Grail so that he could live forever. Indiana Jones is a movie. It’s half action, half historical fantasy. If your children don’t know the real history of the Soviet Union, it is not Indiana Jones’ fault. It is your own fault.

Hollywood is not responsible for educating our children. It never has been. Hollywood’s only responsibility is to entertain us, and to make enough money so that it can continue to entertain us in the future. The Communists are confused about this situation, because in the Soviet Union films were always used as propaganda, and the government controlled everything that was shown. In America the situation is completely different. The government cannot control or influence what we show in our films. Everything is the choice of the director, producers, writers and actors.

As humorous as the Communist Party’s comments were, however, they reveal a trend of criticism and a common misconception which many older people have about the media, especially in America. Parents in America and around the world are blaming Hollywood and television and music and video games for their children’s bad behavior. But what kind of parents are they if they allow their children to watch and listen to such harmful things? And how can these things influence your children unless you have not raised them well?

As a child I watched hundreds of scary movies and hundreds of violent action movies, but I have never been in a physical fight in my entire life. I have never done any of the terrible things that I have seen on television or in movies.

Why? Because films are fake, and my family and our morals and standards are real.

My family raised me well, with discipline and understanding, they made sure I got a good education, that I worked hard at everything I did, that I played sports and met all kinds of people from different countries and cultures. They gave me the skills to live a good, successful life, and only a fool would ignore those lessons and believe what Hollywood tells him about history, love, and life in general.

Unfortunately, these days not all children are receiving such a healthy upbringing. Parents are working more and spending less time with their children. Instead of doing productive things with their children, many parents simply put their kids in front of the television or computer and leave them alone.

And don’t forget, children imitate their parents. People think that children learn bad habits from the media, but most bad habits, and good ones, are learned from our parents.

A common belief in America is that if parents read to their children every night, then their children will grow up loving to read. But recent research shows that the most important factor in determining whether children will enjoy reading is not if their parents read to them or not. The most important factor in determining how many books children read is how many books their parents read for themselves.

If children see their parents reading books, then they will read books. If children see their parents sitting on the couch and watching television or listening to music, or cursing, or smoking, or ignoring their family, then they will do the same.

And, unfortunately, if children see their elders being paranoid and angry about a silly action film, then those children will grow up to be paranoid and angry too.