Does you wanna be the Mama or the Papa?

Wow.  Bernie 'No soul' Madoff gets 150 years in the slammer.  Nice. You have to love the judge on this one.  150 years.  Mind you Madoff is already 71, so it's not like he's losing his life.  With any luck though, he'll do some seriously hard time, with Big Agnes and the rest of the fellas in the general population.  I don't like his chances of getting out of the shower without a new friend or two...or five. He's gonna get more action than Pamela Anderson on Prom Night. Tough to be forgiving on this one, I'll tell you.  This guy basically financially raped a lot of regular folks like you and I.  Some estimates put his crime upward of 170 billion dollars.  Think about that number for a second.  That's larger than the GNP of many countries. The question that always comes to my mind in cases like this is; How much do you need?  How much dough do you need to pocket before you can say, "I'm fairly comfortable?"
Personally I'm pretty sure I'd be good after the first billion.  But this, obviously, is not about money.  It's a power thing.  Well, Bernie, old chum...good luck with the power thing in the Stir.  You can start by arm wrestling Big Agnes for the top bunk.  Reminds me of that wonderfully off-color old joke "...Does you wanna be the Mama or the Papa?"  Tough call Bernie.

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[Tom Pike]

Imagine going to bed every night knowing you cheated thousands and thousands of people out of money they were relying upon. Imagine making that your legacy going down as the biggest most callous fraudster of them all. The sheer scale. That would be roughly $50K from every man, woman and child in Canada. It is hard to reflect on that kind of damage. And what staggers me is there is nothing he can point to that reflects good on him like say a large collection of African villages that have safe water or 10 or 20 thousand kids in Guatemala that made it through school over that time because of him. Nope just another extreme blight of what people are capable of. Go to town Agnes.