Livin' the thug life

DRUG LORD
Such as: Pable Escobar, Manuel Noriega, Frank Lucas, Guy Fisher
List is too long to name all.
Will seduce you into investing / addiction preying on your naiveté.
Will keep you contributing / coming back for more based on your desire to maintain your status / feed your habit.
Will prevent you from asking questions based on perceptions of his/her power.
Has no concern for the damage inflicted on his consumer / investors / buyers.
Has no regard for moral or legal repercussions.
Will likely maintain a large percentage of wealth and status despite a potential prison sentence due to the persistent and pervasive rape of his/her client base over a long period of time.
Will likely get a lesser, if no, prison sentence due to his/her ability to payoff / corrupt the system to their benefit.
Has only remorse to the degree to which he/she got caught.
Has no conscience and/or sociopathic tendencies.

CORPORATE EXECUTIVE
Such as: Madoff, Jeffrey Skilling, Kenneth Lay, AIG execs, Jake DeSantis, Christian Milton, Joseph Cassano. List is too long to name all.
Will seduce you into investing / addiction preying on your naiveté.
Will keep you contributing / coming back for more based on your desire to maintain your status / feed your habit.
Will prevent you from asking questions based on perceptions of his/her power.
Has no concern for the damage inflicted on his consumer / investors / buyers.
Has no regard for moral or legal repercussions.
Will likely maintain a large percentage of wealth and status despite a potential prison sentence due to the persistent and pervasive rape of his/her client base over a long period of time.
Will likely get a lesser, if no, prison sentence due to his/her ability to payoff / corrupt the system to their benefit.
Has only remorse to the degree to which he/she got caught.
Has no conscience and/or sociopathic tendencies.

Drug lords have been preying on the weak, economically depressed, most desperate populations for decades. No one really pays much mind to the populations destroyed by drug lords because, well frankly, our society considers the poor to be more or less, a fact of life and expendable. They have no voice, no advocate, no place in our neighborhoods. Who notices when a homeless crackhead ends up dead in a back alley. Who cares? If he has a family, they've long since faced the inevitable, because there is no help or concern for the drug addicted / mentally ill that plague the bottom tiers of our society. Help or concern, meaning from those that provide funding or assistance to combat these ills.
Corporate executives prey on populations causing them to become weak, economically depressed and desperate. No one really pays much mind to these populations that destroy because, well frankly, our society is to concerned with maintaining our status (keeping up with the Jones's) by whatever means necessary, and willing to turn a blind eye to million dollar bonuses and the rape of resources until our checking account / retirement account is directly impacted. Who notices when corporate execs are vacationing in the islands with celebrity entertainment, private jets, and high dollar hookers? No one, until the price tag for all that bling comes due. Until one person stops the madness and asks a question. Imagine how surprised John McEnroe was when he found out his high dollar art piece was part of a Ponzi scheme. And then the house of cards is blown down and the trickle down effect begins. There is no help or concern for the lawn and pool addicted middle class that fill the middle tiers of our society, but they'll get the legislation and politicians in action to get at least some recovery. I mean, really, should that population be forced to live within their means? Should they be required to sell the Mercedes and SUV and drive a Kia until they get their money right?
I don't have the answers, but I do know that Corporate robbers should be treated the same under the law as drug dealers / drug lords and common thugs. They should be spending a long long time in general population prison and lose their assets. All their assets. If you traffic drugs in your car, you lose your car. The CEO who defrauds bases his entire life style on the money he/she made through that fraud; as such, it should all be confiscated. If he/she ever gets out of prison, he should not be allowed to serve as an executive or consultant where his judgment and values will cause monetary risk to others. He should not be allowed to associate with known corporate executives. I say, a thug is a thug! Just my opinion.