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fasttense

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7. He's doing nothing different than all the corporations selling crap in the US do.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Sat Mar 24, 2012, 09:03 AM

Mar 2012

He just got caught and prosecuted, unlike the banksters and corporate tycoons.

Once one business uses crime as a business model and gets away with it, then every business has to use crime as a business model in order to be competitive.

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Former exec pleads guilty to tomato price-fixing [View all] alp227 Mar 2012 OP

Attack... of the Price Fixed Tomatoes.... Attack.... of the Price Fixed Tomatoes.... Ian David Mar 2012 #1

Say anything about removing all the FLAVOR from tomatoes??? elleng Mar 2012 #2

For a minute in that first paragraph I thought it was Bank of America. n/t jtuck004 Mar 2012 #3

What lessons should we take from this? (other than, not to leave Andorra) nt. harmonicon Mar 2012 #4

Sounds like Obama's Justice Department is getting the job done. truthisfreedom Mar 2012 #5

Is nothing sacred??? Vinca Mar 2012 #6

He's doing nothing different than all the corporations selling crap in the US do. fasttense Mar 2012 #7

much truth in your statement.... lostnote12 Mar 2012 #8

If they catch enough of these criminals ... surrealAmerican Mar 2012 #10

Scum rises to the top. hunter Mar 2012 #9

Another guilty Republican corporate bastard! Auntie Bush Mar 2012 #11

Obviously what is needed is more deregulation and more flexibility for the market to police itself Citizen Worker Mar 2012 #12

Corruption is too easy with lax regulation Canuckistanian Mar 2012 #13

BASTARD! What a heinous crime! nt MADem Mar 2012 #14