Robert Scheer begins: "There is no three-strikes law for crooked bankers, not even a law for a fifth strike, as The New York Times reported in the case of Citigroup, cited last month in a $1 billion fraud case."
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, 11/26/10. (photo: Ali Thanawalla/SFGate)
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The U.S. Congress has 274 members left that would possibly vote, for the people, and I’m betting the people could not get 4 votes from those 274 members.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20023147-503544.html
November 17, 2010 4:45 PM
Number of Millionaires in Congress: 261
For Congress, debating the extension of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans is personal.
While the base pay for members of Congress is $174,000, nearly half -- 261, to be exact -- are millionaires, according to an analysis of 2009 data from the Center for Responsive Politics (there are 535 total members of the House and Senate). Just 1 percent of Americans overall can say the same.
You are a true old-school Patriot, in a nation filled with officials who are sell-outs to corporate fascism.
This action makes you a very truly historic person.
Would she be willing to declare no to anything but $100 dollar or less donations to her campaign, and take a lie detector test (real McCoy polygraph, no Diebolding) as she announces she's running, and periodically thereafter when doing interviews?
We need for a real people serving female candidate the Tea Party's female female puppet whores, i.e. $arah, Mishillgame, etc.. What's Kamala's stand on war, war, war for oil, oil, oil, police state m.o., etc. etc. etc.?
It's sad that we've gotten to this point, but very true.
OHHHHhhhhh---
'WE ALL LIVE IN A CORPORATACRACY, A CORPORATACRACY, A CORPORATACRACY..'
WE ALL LIVE IN A CORPORATACRACY, A CORPORATACRACY, A CORPORATACRACY..'
SMALLER-GOVERNMENT---> Less Government (of the People) through Less Regulation (of run amok big Corporations) and Less Taxation (of the 1% Global Corporate Wealthy Class) and the relentless Fragmentation of OUR Government into a million bits and useless pieces through For-Profit Corporate Contracting of almost all Government Functions '''IS''' the biggest Flim Flam in Human History and '''IS''' the underlying cause of MOST of OUR collective American Problems today. And whether Occupy Wall Street realizes it or not, it ''IS'' the primary underlying reason for this growing, outrage and PATRIOTIC EFFORT TO SAVE AMERICA..!!
The never ending, relentless Corporate CONservative drive for ever SMALLER-GOVERNMENT ''IS'' directly responsible for the massive transfer of Wealth and Power from 99% of AMERICANS to the 1% Global Corporate Wealthy Class which apparently claims some sort of Divine Right, BirthRight and/or Snob-Right to seek Dominion over EVERYTHING through Lobby, Contract, Media Propaganda and Outright Lies and Manipulation AND TRANSFORM OUR COUNTRY INTO SOME SORT OF CORPORATACRACY OF, BY AND FOR THE GLOBAL CORPORATE..!
I agree, with the following exception: to say they are building a corporatocracy, is an understatement.
I say, they are not going to be happy until the have returned us to FEUDALISM.
(what does that backtrack amount to, something like a thousand years?)
We DESPERATELY NEED a Democratic Party Primary! At the very least, barring that, we need to leave that party and go Green, or something new.
Along with what you say we also need accountibility from congress to hold these banks and the SEC accountable for taking our money and then letting the banks go with no fear of repurcustions or any jail time, they stole our money..
Then, look up the99declaratio n.org
We need an Occupy Party and we need to begin working on building one now, as it will take time and organization.
N.
When he gave immunity to Bush/Cheney, I knew we were in trouble, but it just keeps getting worse and worse.
I don't trust him OR anyone in the present federal government to do anything that would truly benefit the people of our country.
OUST THE BUMS!!
However, regarding the California three strikes law and the related story about the criminal who stole a slice of pizza from an outdoor diner, the victim was just a little kid.
I support locking up an offender and throwing away the key for even a second offense involving intimidation, force, or violence by an adult against a child.
Thats how the states are set up, even if a man is hungry, if it is their third strike they will go back to prison for life....cost more to house them for the rest of their life....makes no sense to me either...
Its just another law designed to protect the 1% from the 99
Fundamentally it is immoral and illegal to compensate the Banks for their predatory loans and fraudulent practices. They have criminally failed in their duties to use due diligence and discretion in creating these toxic mortgages,that they knowingly knew would fail. These are actual felonies committed by the banks...They should NEVER be swept under the 'deal making' table! The Banks should be prosecuted fully...as they are crimes that brought this country down to her knees in suffering and in need!
Compensating the Banks for their crimes by allowing foreclosures does NOTHING for this economy.
Stopping foreclosures keeps families in their homes, as well as being the main back stay to revitalizing this Economy. There is NO recovery without it!...
The choice is SIMPLE and CLEAR:
It is either giving the Banks what they want, or re-building our ECONOMY. That is what the Public, the Attorney Generals, as well as the Judges must hold to be true...
If Kamala holds her course, she will be known as an 'Untouchable' Public Official. That is, one who can't be bought.Let us hope this proves to be true.
Actions of conglomerates
You know, corporations rife
With greed that’s sucking out
All financial life
Of middle-class Americans
The elderly and the poor
But, insatiably …
Do they always want “some more”.
From Koch brothers, life suffers
From funding that which kills
Democracy and decency
For profits that fill their tills
And we stand here leaderless
Our congress a sycophant
Providing corporations
With whatever they might want
Tea Party: Corporate dupes …
And Democrats spineless be
Jobs is what we need
But Congress won’t agree
The only hope we have is:
“Occupy … this and that”
For without those noble efforts
America will go flat
And still it is our pleadings
There on deaf ears fall
If there is no response:
Corporations win it all.
You go GIRL!!!
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