# Solution to Financial Crisis **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501 "2009-02-12T06:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501/41 "2009-02-13T09:43:00Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > What, you keep it in a mattress or tied up in an old stocking or something? If you’ve got any retirement accounts, or if you happened to have any dealings with a guy called Madoff, you should know that yes, Wall Street bankers most certainly **can** take your money. Don’t forget that 700 or so billion of _our_ money was politely handed over to the bankers without so much as a credit check. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501/42 "2009-02-13T09:44:19Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Why do you hate the Moonies? > > [Another one deserving of a beatdown.](http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/housing/2009-02-11-mortgage-fraud-fugitive_N.htm) 70.000 bucks in his shoes??? Those shoes must put Bozo the Clown’s to shame. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501/43 "2009-02-13T11:28:07Z")
After the collapse of the South Sea Bubble a motion was put before Parliament that bankers should be sewn into sacks with poisonous snakes and thrown in the Thames. A variant on a traditional Roman form of execution. Sadly it was not passed. ---
**Author:** ![tagos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tagos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tagos)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501/44 "2009-02-13T11:34:24Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > What, you keep it in a mattress or tied up in an old stocking or something? If you’ve got any retirement accounts, or if you happened to have any dealings with a guy called Madoff, you should know that yes, Wall Street bankers most certainly **can** take your money. And if they can’t take it they can make it all vanish as if it never existed or fuck with the economy so badly it’ll be worthless. There seriously does need to be something spectacular done to demonstrate to future generations of would-be Masters of the Universe that there WILL be consequences for greed, incompetence and stupidity. A Financial Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal along the lines of Nuremberg with a long drop on a short piece of rope at the end of the process. The process being nothing more than establishing a person was a senior manager, CEO, or board Member of a loss-making bank or Investment Fund pressuring institutions to borrow and expand who did not resign their position before it all kicked off. Same applies to currency speculators and short-sellers. No need for lawyers, just a straight establishment of the facts. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501/45 "2009-02-13T13:13:29Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Shooting them seems too final. And who has $100 to spare? I say sell tickets to whack them in the nads with a baseball bat for $5 each. Bonus: if you need more stimulus, they’re still around so you can sell tickets again. The beauty of this idea is if you say it’s to raise funds and not to punish them, according to Scalia it’ll be constitutional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/solution-to-financial-crisis/485501.md?page=2)