http://www.alternet.org/media/jon-stewart-difference-between-atlanta-cheating-and-wall-street-scandals-who-got-punished
Jon Stewart compared the “eerie” similarities between the
Atlanta teacher cheating scandal with fraud on Wall Street, and
discovered that the only difference between the two seems to be who was
actually punished. (Spoiler alert: It was the teachers.)
On last night’s Daily Show
segment, Stewart looked at the basics of both cases to see where they
overlapped and diverged. The similarities were endless: widespread lying
for personal gain, a culture of secrecy and intimidation, and a refusal
to admit to wrongdoing. But the stories had very different endings:
teachers and administrators involved in the Atlanta scandal will
actually be doing hard time, with some were sentenced to years in
prison. While the Wall Streeters “whose financial crimes nearly broke
the Earth” escaped wholly unscathed, with the exception of one
conviction.
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