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Any one of the present and former republican candidates were and are dangerous. Mitt Romney is a full blown wall streeter, and Gingrich is a full blown lobbyist masking his activities as a consultant.
Whether it was Michelle Bachmann, or Herman Cain all of them are running on a platform thats contrary to the American peoples interest. All of them wanted, and would still like to have the power that will work in their favor, and they've been blunt about it...........
All of them claim to hate what the government today represents, and all of them want to dismantle the scale of it by taking it apart piece by piece.
All of them have one thing in common, they love what the government has been able to do for them, how its worked to their benefit, and "benefits". They hate it so much that they seek to be a part of it more than anyone. Career politicians.
The republicans own the National Debt. No party has spent, wasted more, borrowed more than they, and for the last 10 years had been bogged down in 2 wars that has benefited Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan not the US, and Obama has showed commitment in getting us out of those shit-holes. We had many opportunity blow the hell out of al qaeda, and the Taliban but Bush and Cheney wouldn't without the permission of Pakistans govt..........as if they needed it!.
They created a new Vietnam with Iraq, a country uninvolved with 911. Now we have approx 10,000 American lives lost since 911, and for what?????. Career politicians with their policies, rules, laws, or lack of, and little to no enforcement led this nation down this prim rose path of internal destruction on every level, and now the same people want to fix it!.
Its kinda like them trying to give us back the car that was in good shape when it was entrusted to them, with a loan to get alot of good work done. Instead all they did was party. They want to convince us now that all it needs is just a little work, as they offer it back, and proclaim it will be as good as new. They never maintained it as they promised, and burnt thru all the money with no way to pay it back. All it needs is a little fixing up. Rusted, and has leaks thru every crevice, needs new tires, an engine, and a tow truck. If we want to get all this done, "the cost of its replacement or repairs is on us". The country rallies in support of what they represent. Lets do it all again!
What kind of man was Hoover prior to his presidency?. This was a tragedy on a massive scale, and many Russians living today remember and still give thanks for the life they would have otherwise not had. What great things this man accomplished for having a heart and being proactive.
What a contrast as to the president he could have been?. If he had taken the initiative to serve his own people during the Great Depression, and the WW1 veterans. Lots of people died from hunger, exposure, disease and lack of any medical treatment.
Hey guys if none of you have seen this I believe you'll find this extremely interesting. Its approx an hour long but its more than worthwhile to watch...........http://video.pbs.org/video/1853678422
I don't know how long it can be viewed on the site, don't miss the opportunity.
What kind of man was Hoover prior to his presidency?. This was a tragedy on a massive scale, and many Russians living today remember and still give thanks for the life they would have otherwise not had. What great things this man accomplished for having a heart and being proactive.
What a contrast as to the president he could have been?. If he had taken the initiative to serve his own people during the Great Depression, and the WW1 veterans. Lots of people died from hunger, exposure, disease and lack of any medical treatment.
Hey guys if none of you have seen this I believe you'll find this extremely interesting. Its approx an hour long but its more than worthwhile to watch...........http://video.pbs.org/video/1853678422
I don't know how long it can be viewed on the site, don't miss the opportunity.
These photos are pretty graphic, its hard to view, and its beyond belief that Americans are involved, and to blame. The ones who claim their love horses. We now have a senator from Montana, and a sitting president signing a bill to lift the ban on horse slaughter. It needs to be stopped in its tracks. It should be a felony for anyone selling horses in or outside of the country for human, or animal consumption.
If the horse is old, what do some of them do?, let them starve, cause they don't care about them anymore its easy to sell them for some butchers table, but its not old horses, its healthy young horses. This country got all up in arms when they discoverd the animal abuse taking place on a football players property, Michael Vick............and sent him to prison. How much more dispicable, and deplorable is this?
These are the people who are running government!. Doesn't it speak volumes?. It gets worse every election cycle. Congress has accomplished nothing in the last 3 years, and little to nothing in last several decades for the country, and the American people. They're to busy making deals, and making themselves millionaire's or more millions. Even if its trading stock, or commodities on insider information. Remember Hillary raking in $100,000 from a $1,000 investment?, and in just one year. Just the luck of the cards ya think?
You've just shown us why they all need to be fired, "they aren't qualified", and fail in common sense.
They do know how to serve themselves though. They get the most of everything they can while in office "for themselves", and all the while tell the American people what they shouldn't have, or what needs to be taken from them so they can service the debts they've run up.
They aren't really running government. Its a facade.
The Chamber of Commerce, Billionaire Boys Club, Big Business, Multi-nationanl corporations, The Bankers, and Wall Street are really pulling the strings, we have witnessed this first hand.
Horses. I guess our dogs should be on the menu when we can no longer care for them.............Horses, one of our most beloved animals. They've served in the military, they serve the police with distinction. In how many more ways have they served the people in our country?
http://blisstree.com/eat/congress-lifts-horse-slaughter-ban-says-its-ok-to-sell-their-meat-487/
This is sickening, and taxpayers will play a role in it whether we agree or disagree...........I'm making my voice heard. A horse is a majestic creature, and loved by many of us, Has served, and serve both the military, and police with distinction.
This animal has served man in so more capacities than we can imagine?. Even when they can't win the races, or big races anymore this is the fate of many............
For Sen.Baucus to make the argument that this will create jobs is deplorable. A job to murder horses.
Whats next on the menu?. Spot?.
A horse is unlike any other creature, and those who neglect them, and choose not to find them homes, and not to give them up freely to those who will take them, and care for them should be brought up on charges. Many will take them and give them pastures to romp in.
If they're sick, crippled, or for other health reasons are suffering then a vet needs to step in, and the animal buried imo. This Sen.serves Montana, a state where you'd think they cherish horses.
http://blisstree.com/eat/congress-lifts-horse-slaughter-ban-says-its-ok-to-sell-their-meat-487/
Miss Teen USA 2007 "Political science major"
Why have Americans have found themselves on the battlefields of Asia, and the Middle East?, and everywhere else on the planet?. The reasons we're always told its in America's best interest to engage the enemy. The reason why we need to go >>>>>>>>>>>>> Over There!!!. Lyndon Johnson said the Vietcong had fired upon one of our ships......A blatant lie. It never occurred.........
This time it was WMD, and the need to head into Iraq. We all know that this was a bold face lie.
Afghanistan found itself fading in the media, even the reasoning of the mission if not to get Bin Laden. It took GWB successor to get Bin Laden, something GWB did not want to do, he was the excuse for our being there in the first place, and remaining there, and if the republicans would of had their way remain there indefinitely. Regardless of loss of life, and the cost.
The first warning came from Washington, the warning again from Eisenhower. 2 honorable men who had America's real interest at heart.
History books record that World War I started when the nations went to war to avenge the assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Habsburg throne, on June 28, 1914.This is the typical explanation. But the "revisionist historian" knows just what caused and what the purpose was of the conflagration of World War I.
Up until America's entry into this war, the American people had followed the wise advice of President George Washington given in his farewell address, delivered to the nation on September 17, 1796. President Washington said: "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour or caprice?'President Washington attempted to warn the American people about getting embroiled in the affairs of Europe. But in 1914, it was not to be. There were those who were secretly planning America's involvement in World War I whether the American people wanted it or not.
The Plan to Involve America in World War 1
The pressure to involve the American government started in 1909, long before the actual assassination of the Archduke.
Norman Dodd, former director of the Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations of the U.S. House of Representatives, testified that the Committee was invited to study the minutes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as part of the Committee's investigation. The Committee stated: "The trustees of the Foundation brought up a single question. If it is desirable to alter the life of an entire people, is there any means more efficient than war.... They discussed this question... for a year and came up with an answer: There are no known means more efficient than war, assuming the objective is altering the life of an entire people. That leads them to a question: How do we involve the United States in a war. This is in 1909."
So the decision was made to involve the United States in a war so that the "life of the entire people could be altered." This was the conclusion of a foundation supposedly committed to "peace."
The method by which the United States was drawn into the war started on October 25, 1911, when Winston Churchill was appointed the First Lord of the Admiralty in England.
Winston Churchill is an interesting individual, as he later came to the conclusion that there was indeed a master conspiracy at work in the major events of the world, when he wrote the following in 1920: "From the days of Spartacus—Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, to those of Trotsky (Russia)... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization... has been steadily growing."
The second key appointment made during the pre-war period was the appointment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson.
Roosevelt is also on record as concluding that there was a conspiracy, at least in the United States. He once wrote to Colonel Edward Mandell House: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson, and I am not wholly excepting the administration of W.W. (Woodrow Wilson.) The country is going through a repetition of Jackson's fight with the Bank of the United States—only on a far bigger and broader basis."
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The next step in the maneuvering of the United States into the war came when the Cunard Lines, owner of the ocean liner, the Lusitania, turned the ship over to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. It now became a ship of the English Navy and was under the control of the English government.
The ship was sent to New York City where it was loaded with six million rounds of ammunition, owned by J.P. Morgan & Co., to be sold to England and France to aid in their war against Germany.
It was known that the very wealthy were interested in involving the American government in that war, and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan was one who made note of this. "As Secretary [Bryan] had anticipated, the large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of wide opportunities for large profits. On August 3, 1914, even before the actual clash of arms, the French firm of Rothschild Freres cabled to Morgan and Company in New York suggesting the flotation of a loan of $100,000,000, a substantial part of which was to be left in the United States, to pay for French purchases of American goods."
England broke the German war code on December 14, 1914, so that "By the end of January, 1915, [British Intelligence was] able to advise the Admiralty of the departure of each U-boat as it left for patrol...."
This meant that the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, knew where every U-boat was in the vicinity of the English Channel that separated England and France.
The ocean liner was set to sail to England already at war with Germany. The German government had placed advertisements in the New York newspapers warning the American people considering whether or not to sail with the ship to England that they would be sailing into a war zone, and that the liner could be sunk.
Secretary Bryan promised that "he would endeavor to persuade the President (Woodrow Wilson) publicly to warn the Americans not to travel [aboard the Lusitania]. No such warning was issued by the President, but there can be no doubt that President Wilson was told of the character of the cargo destined for the Lusitania. He did nothing... ."
Even though Wilson proclaimed America's neutrality in the European War, in accordance with the prior admonitions of George Washington, his government was secretly plotting to involve the American people by having the Lusitania sunk. This was made public in the book The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, written by a supporter of the Colonel, who recorded a conversation between Colonel House and Sir Edward Grey of England, the Foreign Secretary of England:
Grey: What will America do if the Germans sink an ocean liner with American passengers on board?
House: I believe that a flame of indignation would sweep the United States and that by itself would be sufficient to carry us into the war.
On May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was sunk off the coast of County Cork, Ireland by a U-boat after it had slowed to await the arrival of the English escort vessel, the Juno, which was intended to escort it into the English port. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, issued orders that the Juno was to return to port, and the Lusitania sat alone in the channel. Because Churchill knew of the presence of three U-boats in the vicinity, it is reasonable to presume that he had planned for the Lusitania to be sunk, and it was. 1201 people lost their lives in the sinking.
This sinking has been described by Colin Simpson, the author of a book entitled The Lusitania, as "the foulest act of wilful murder ever committed on the seas."
But the event was not enough to enable President Wilson to declare war against the German government, and the conspirators changed tactics. They would use other means to get the American people involved in the war, as the "flame of indignation" did not sweep the United States as had been planned.
Robert Lansing, the Assistant Secretary of State, is on record as stating: "We must educate the public gradually — draw it along to the point where it will be willing to go into the war."
After the sinking of the Lusitania, two inquiries were held, one by the English government, in June, 1915, and one by the American government in 1918. Mr. Simpson has written that "Both sets of archives... contain meager information. There are substantial differences of fact in the two sets of papers and in many cases it is difficult to accept that the files relate to the same vessel."
But in both inquiries, the conclusions were the same: torpedoes and not exploding ammunition sank the Lusitania, because there was no ammunition aboard. The cover-up was now official.
But there have been critics of these inquiries. One was, of course, the book written by Colin Simpson, who did the research necessary to write his book in the original minutes of the two inquiries.
The Los Angeles Times reviewed Mr. Simpson's book and concluded: "The Lusitania proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the British government connived at the sinking of the passenger ship in order to lure America into World War I. The Germans, whose torpedo struck the liner, were the unwitting accomplices or victims of a plot probably concocted by Winston Churchill."
President Wilson was seeking re-election in 1916. He campaigned on his record of "keeping us out of the War" during his first term of office from 1912 to 1916.
http://www.threeworldwars.com/world-war-1/ww1.htm
Here's some interesting tid bits...........I haven't read thru all this stuff I just found it interesting, so may you.
http://www.webofdebt.com/articles/time_to_buy_the_fed.php
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTSITETOOLS/0,,contentMDK:20147466~menuPK:344189~pagePK:98400~piPK:98424~theSitePK:95474,00.html
http://www.garvfinancial.com/banking_money/owns-world-bank/
http://www.save-a-patriot.org/files/view/whofed.html
http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/who-owns-worlds-gold/2491
Increasing, decreasing, whatever the pursuit first and foremost its whatever serves their best interest, not ours. All we have to do is give a good hard look at who, and what these politicians have served over the last 50 years, and how it benefitted the American people?, after all its the people that always does their heavy lifting.
They had a real chance after to get things right, but WW1, and 2 was not enough. It doesn't seem to matter what the previous wars have been about nothing is ever learned.......Ever since the Europeans discovered this land it began warring with the people who inhabited both continents, and its never seized.......The Europeans warred with one another, and the farther we go back the wars we discover. Just look at what this nation has been involved with after WW2?.............Give a look at Britain today...........The once Great British Empire, has to a larger degree lost its sovereignty, and it looks like they will be absorbed into the EU, and like the rest may end up giving up its currency........we'll see?..............
I heard something today that should ring thru the House Of Congress. 1.The next moderator should bring this up to each of them for a response, so they can explain how they reconcile this with their agenda's?. If they believe all their horeshit?
Each and everyone of them articulates in some form that they hate the government, and or what it represents today, as they do in every campaign. They all want to reduce the size of government, they're always complaining the government shouldn't play a role in the American way of life. Americans should be subservient to what they wish to dictate. Except pay taxes so they can spend it fighting the wars they create for their benefit, and on government contracts that we've seen handed out to their buddies, for their benefit. Or, for bailout for crooks they associate with so their investments will grow, for gifts and promisies even if they do have to wait till they get out of office for them to solidfy, all for their benefit.............Its all about them!, Its all for them!!, and their powerful billionaire friends.
The republicans love to spend, when Reagan took office the ND was $850B, when GW Bush left office it was around $10T+. Its been one big ATM machine, and now the rest of America is suppose to pay for it.
We've lost 5,000 Amercan troops with 32,000 injured, and a war that may wind up costing $3T and for what???. Look at the shit Obama got stuck with, 2 wars, with Bin Laden still out there, and an economy shittier than even before and this so called free market in the shitter. The only people really benefitting from all of it were, and are the ones right in the middle of causing it to implode. Shortly after Bush, Cheney, Paulson, Cox, and the rest...............Gone!!!!. Back to their comfortable ranches, mansions, and sanctuaries...........
When the GOP are busy preaching about a smaller government, a government that shouldn't play a role in the American peoples way of life, that the American people shouldn't look to government, or depend on government in any form, with all this, many if not most are career politicians, or at least thats their hope. 2. Why is it that no one seeks government more than they? We already know why, as do they, its what the government can do, can or will continue to do for them, make them rich, and the biggest prize of all is getting that top position so they can become richer, more powerful.
We shouldn't have interfered with the Russians in the first place.
They may have gotten control of that country if we would have kept our noses out. Look what it got us.
Clinton made alot of mistakes, hiring Janet Reno was one. The way things were handled in Somalia was a really bad call.
This imo sounds alot worse.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/corporations-pay-no-state-taxes-either
I don't beat up on the seniors, unless its Madoff.:) Imo if anyones deserving of tax breaks its our soldiers. If anyone puts it all out there on the line when called on for the country its them. Whether they agree or disagree they still do what they're called upon to do.
Out of curiosity who would you replace him with?..........I never understood why Obama chose Biden?, when there were others that would have been a good strong arm for him.
Man when I look at the line up of those who want to be president, sorry its laughable to me........Ron Paul has some good ideas, but he has alot of bad ideas as well.
It reminds me of something Lewis Black said. He said the democrats are a party of no ideas, and the republicans are a party of bad ideas. When a democrat stands, and says, hey I've got an idea, the republican stands, and says, "yes, and I can make it even shittier". :)
You are right on!!!
http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/now-called-academi-blackwater-wants-to-go-back-to-iraq-20111212
http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/iraq.asp
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/12/14-3?amp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/14/iraq-war-us-appetite-fighting
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/us_leaves_iraq_much_worse_off_20100823/
They're all guilty. I wouldn't trust Clinton as far as I could see him, nor Hillary. Every presidential campaign its more of the same ole shitheads. I said from the beginning that Obama surrounded himself with the very same corrupted people who played a role or was rather rolling in the mire to fill their pockets. For every net gain of profit there is a net loss somewhere else. Often it involves individual working investors. We need to get back to a system where banks pay a reasonable rate of interest to those who have accounts with them, since they themselves charge an interest to those they lend to. Each bank should be accountable for any mortgage they finance.
I think we could all do very nicely without a stock market, just look at the damage its done over the last century. It was created to get at peoples money. By its very design its rigged for people to lose their money. People are under the perception that it will serve them to build an nest egg for retirement, or some other worthy cause..............its a lie.
It helped to set the stage for one evil madman........Hitler.
Like Aig retaining the same people because people like them were hard to replace???????????What??. Did I hear that right?..............
GS actually got $23 billion. It was forced to take another $13B just to tied them over you know. In turn they sold stock to repay that. In the interim they shifted their money out of the country. Its not only unconscionable, its disgraceful that the Senate Banking Committee would approve of such a measure that would bail these people out.
What should have been occurring, the FBI should have been arresting all those involved which include those within all 3 Rating agencies. Instead our government became the banker, and bookie for all of them..................I don't know if we will ever ever see things change?.
Its their leadership that causes so many of the ills we face in this country.
One thing we surely don't want is the return to the days of Hoover.
Most if not all we hear from the conservative side reflects this. The last republican with real intergrity was Eisenhower, and its unlikely we will see another him. It was a good time in American history for him to be president, not so for Truman or FDR.
What we have today are a bunch of self serving republican politicians who give the impression that they hate the American people. There are a many a democrat who are just as bad, and just as phony as the rest. They want to be career politicians paid for off the backs of taxpayers. Hypocrites!.
I had lots of reservations about Obama in the beginning, but he's followed thru with alot of what he promised. I think many of those he's surrounded himself with doesn't serve in his best interest. Remember he was pretty green coming in. He got Bin Laden, he is bringing our troops home. """"""Finally!""""""". Thank God!
Our country had a real chance to do things right after WW2, but it didn't follow the lead of Eisenhower. then came Kennedy, and Johnson. Johnson came to the aide of the elderly, but he did so much more damage to our nation, as well as the misuse of our military, kind like what Bush and or Cheney did with Iraq.
Its really something isn't it?. Conflict of Interest is an understatement. Just think of the connections?. Hank Paulson ex-ceo of GS nominated by GW Bush. Ron Cox ex-US Senator formerly Chair of the SEC and nominated by his father old man Bush. Greenspan nominated by Reagan. http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/04/how-ronald-reagan-and-alan-greenspan-pulled-off-the-greatest-fraud-ever-perpetrated-against-the-american-people/
GW Bush prior to he becoming Gov., was getting investigated for insider trading, but it was all swept under the rug, thanks to his father. Its having all the right men in all the right places.
The 3 rating agencies in this country were also bought and paid for, and again one of the culprits was GS. The damage they did world wide is beyond corruption, but yet still operate as if nothing they did happened, and have the gaul to report this countries credit worthiness having played a role in the world getting looted based on their fraud giving triple A ratings on the CDO's they knew very well were junk, better put garbage.
GW Bush/ Cheney used as much of the money resources that they could. The Treasury Dept was the biggest ATM card in the world and they made good use of it for them and their buddies.
Its truly sickening just how corrupt, just how evil the people are or can become when they get such high positions, and its been going on for decades, and it finally imploded. "Again". Its all for greed, power, money and power wields influence. They people who foot the bill, and bleed from the wounds are the people they claim to represent. No government, no country will stand when this kind of corruption rules and controls it.
Branches of government - Wall Street, Congress, Corporations, Off Shore Hedgefunds. Insiders - Congressmen, Lobbyist, Ceo's, Money Managers.
Half of the NYSE is controlled by Hedgefunds
Half of the London Exchange is controlled by Hedgefunds.
In the Cayman Islands alone approx 10,000 Hedgefunds. Unregistered, who trade outside US jurisdiction.
:) thats about the size of it.
One woman who was defrauded by Madoff said that he is living better than some who lost everything. He is living good minus the freedom of leaving. Why would want to when so many want at him.
A roof over his head paid by the taxpayers. He has state of the art work out equipment and facility. Open door to his sleeping quarter with a comfortable mattress. Shower when he wants. He plays video games, popcorn with tv in the evenings. He pays $8 a month for someone to iron his clothes. He has 300 minutes of phone time, or total access. He eats especially good with choice of daily buffet. Vending machines, BBQ grills for hamburgers, hot dogs, and ribs. This is what you get when you've committed the biggest fraud ever. If a person is one of them, in the club, Its called, White Collar Crime . A law that protects them from the kind of punishment everyone else receives..........if you're like this woman with a macrocosm amount comparatively your the worst of criminals http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/woman-gets-jail-for-food-stamp-fraud-wall-street-fraudsters-get-bailouts-20111117
This is what happens if you're Corzine. The download is slow but it worth the read. http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/08/9296805-corzine-i-dont-know-where-missing-mf-money-is
If any get time, many in the past was a slap on the hand, or minimum time, and when their released,,,,,,,,,,they become lobbyist, and if they can't get registered its """Consultants""""". Like the fellow Meekan was it who was at the heart of the S&L scandals. Many of them keep a large portion of the money they stole. But like many they bury their ill gotten gains abroad, off shore in safe deposit boxes, or secret accounts that can't be traced.
Yes!!.........but not just now, its called Washington!, or rather Congress. Its all a facade. Its not because they're hiding behind all those monuments. It because they choose to show when they want or have no choice, all the while receiving very nice paychecks.
There's more!. No wonder why our country is in the state its in. Even our infrastructure is crumbling, I take this back, its crumbled. When Eisenhower was president, and the big thinker he was, got us off the frontage, state, and county roads to the Interstate. He actually adopted this idea from Germany's Autobahn. This was Hitlers idea of how to travel. Actually he had his military in mind. Even he had some good ideas to bad they were all used for evil purposes.
When Eisenhower was president 12% of revenue went toward building and maintaining our infrastructure. Today the revenue is less than 1.5%. From Kennedy on, less, and less of the revenue generated went toward these projects, and this is the result. To do all the repairs, replacements for either roads, bridges, electrical grids, underground waterpipes, drainage pipes, levy's, and a host of other things, nationwide has been estimated at todays low cost of $22T.......guess no one saw this coming huh?.
If you were able to watch the documentary "The Crumbling of America", we come to understand just how servere the problem(s) are. We watched one of our bridges collapse in Minnesota, and this is just one bridge. We don't have to drive far to hit a pot hole, a buckle in the road, and here in Milwaukee if you can imagine?, cars have fallen into sink holes, which are usually the cause of underground drainage pipes leaking. I remember a time when gravel roads were better maintained, even dirt roads in the South. Nothing like starting out with a new vehicle and beating it up.........if your lucky enough to have one?........by the time its paid for the suspension, and or everything else underneath has been jarred loose,damaged,broken, bent, or wornout just when that warranty is needed the most. Unlike those commercials we see, those roads are Perfecto!, smooth as glass.:)
This is part of the problem http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/19/procter-gamble-tax-avoidance/
The other part of the problem are our politicians not closing all these stupid loopholes forcing these corrupt companies to pay their taxes ,or face the music, like every working class individual they come after, and the only people they seem to ever come after. You and I don't have, and never had loopholes made just for us so we could beat the government.
Our politicians always had plenty of money to hand out to every country on the planet at one time, and still at it. They're either making concessions, or trying to buy friends, building, or rebuilding some other country.
Congress with our presidents have been in pursuit of every other nation to clean up their backyards while forgetting about the one out their front, and back windows. DC outside the beltway is just one fine example.
Financial Armageddon: FDIC to back $75 Trillion Derivatives
http://dailybail.com/home/the-hammer-gets-hit-by-a-tree.html
http://dailybail.com/home/holy-bailout-federal-reserve-now-backstopping-75-trillion-of.html
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2011/10/21/bank-of-america-derivatives-merrill.html
http://infofeeder.info/latest-information/17963-big-risk-12-quadrillion-derivatives-market-dwarfs-world-gdp-freedoms-phoenix
http://my.firedoglake.com/southof/tag/brooksley-born-elizabeth-warren-cftc-the-consumer-protection-agency-robert-rubin-alan-greenspan-ben-bernanke-larry-summers-timothy-geithner-deregulation-regulation-wall-street-the-big-bank/
When Brooksley Born was head of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under Clinton the derivatives market was estimated to be $35 trillion. After Paulson asked for and got the bailout, and when he had already left that post, Frontline did a documentary on Born. The derivatives market was then estimated to be $595 trillion. Clinton while in office signed a Bill deregulating the financial industry. He like the rest are just as guilty for the collapse. Born was initially selected for the post of Atty.Gen., but Clinton learned from Greenspan that she wasn't corruptible, and chose Janet Reno instead. We all know how Waco went down. The children they were supposed to be rescuing all burned in the fire.
Greenspan in a current interview stated his ideology regarding derivatives was wrong.......Really!. Greenspan had made a killing on WallStreet prior to taking the position as Chair. He like Paulson and the rest was a phony.
With Christmas bearing down on all you Santa's, and not knowing what to get that special someone in your life, here's a few tips from someone whose been especially good, not naughty but nice.:)
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+original+music+video+santa+baby&mid=E365097054CAA5C3308BE365097054CAA5C3308B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1
Thanks.......first time seeing them, quite a light show. :)
With Christmas bearing down on all you Santa's, and not knowing what to get that special someone in your life, here's a few tips from someone whose been especially good, not naughty but nice.:)
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+original+music+video+santa+baby&mid=E365097054CAA5C3308BE365097054CAA5C3308B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1
This band rocks!! :) Enjoy!
This band rocks!! :) Enjoy!
One of things thats always gotten under my skin are the laws our elected officials have created for those who've been involved in white collar crime, how and where they spend their time for incarceration. Madoff gets a country club as many others. Skilling, Kozloski who are imprisoned with protection. Its as if their crimes ever how big, hundreds of millions, billions, regardless of the many lives they end up destroying, or businesses, get special treatment. Madoff is loving his retirement. On the other hand if your a doctor who has sold his license for one individual as wrong as it is, prosecutors want hard time. There's plenty of examples for how the law fails, not one individual who received money in the bailouts have been indicted...............In many respects crime does pay, if you're club member your rewarded with million dollar bonuses, and weekends at the most expensive high end resorts.
http://news.yahoo.com/top-0-1-nation-earn-half-capital-gains-172647859.html
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/11/21/373507/cap-gains-richest-percent/
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11313797/1/reap-a-tax-loophole-enjoyed-by-the-1.html
It didn't take this to validate the reasons why we went into Iraq, anymore than why Bin Laden was no longer a person of interest. If we wanted to search for the biggest, and deepest black holes in the world that contained so much of its evils we don't have to look much farther than DC.
http://articles.cnn.com/2004-01-10/politics/oneill.bush_1_roomful-of-deaf-people-education-of-paul-o-neill-national-security-council-meeting?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=who+found+bush+a+way+to+invade+iraq+according+to+o'neil&view=detail&mid=4393DFD71C0667E228D44393DFD71C0667E228D4&first=0&FORM=LKVR2
Very few have really worked at making the country better, before, and after Eisnehower left office. FDR, Truman, and Eisenhower were a team we we're blessed to have, who truly worked toward making our country a better and safer place, something Eisehower warned us to take heed to, but did our people truly listen?. We had some of the best Generals, and soldiers the world has ever seen during WW2.
They weren't perfect, they were all men, and women, and a good many died serving us so we could not only have a brighter future, but a future as a nation. Bush, Cheney, and many like him has been what our future served up. 50 years of corruption, death, and destruction, 500 years trying to justify it.
We acknowledge now the state this country is in, even its infrastructure, and its not gonna get any better unless there are some massive changes in government. We've grown into a people who serves, and services the robber barrons, a system that these politicians have rigged to rob this country of its wealth, and its health.
A corrupted system the people serve which is ironic when its thought about, in the minds of those elected. They are under the perception that we're suppose to serve them once they become members of the club, no matter, and they'll find a way to make it all legal. Like they have everything else.
We're suppose to be an educated, and civilized people with common goals, but as a nation of people we accept and allow these people to serve in our government without reproach. But reproach is exactly whats needed.
If we as a people continue down the paths we've been led down by politicians who sell their office to the highest bidder, who prove to have no integrity, and we don't take heed and take a stand against it, its no telling what the paths we will eventually lead down. Look what the last 10 years have been like.
:) your right. I guess its because I keep hearing it, I don't know what I must have been thinking of?. Well then where did that last name come from?. Were they some murderous brood of people? :) nevermind as Rosana Danna use to say.
Washington is so tied to Wall Street each member should have to wear the shoes they put on in the morning tied together, just maybe this would help them not to trip up?. Nothing is new, all the suspicions that went with the wars, with our troops being put in harms way unjustifiably, the corruption on the back of the bailouts, the SEC, the rating agencies who rated junk bonds with a triple A rating has the audacity to rate the financial stability of the country.
We could dig a hole to China over turning every rock to uncover the blackness, and we would still come out the other end, and never find it all.
Insider trading, the practice of selling stocks based on non-public information, is illegal for private citizens. But it isn't illegal for members of Congress
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/helenwhalencohen/2011/11/15/insider_trading_is_legal_if_you_are_in_congress
http://www.cnbc.com/id/45249857
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/718959/jack_abramoff_gives_away_the_corrupt_insider%27s_game_in_%22our%22_congress_on_60_minutes/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml
http://jillianbarclay.hubpages.com/hub/What-Jack-Abramoff-Forgot-To-Tell-60-Minutes-The-Grover-Norquist-And-Rick-Santorum-Connection
He has an interesting first name doesn't he?. Wonder why his parents chose to give him the name of Adam & Eve's first born who murdered his brother?.
Insider trading, the practice of selling stocks based on non-public information, is illegal for private citizens.
We've all had one in the family. :)
Let the selling begin!
I thought I would stop by to check if this guy had been put in cuffs yet?. I was just reading thru this. :). I guess Berman and his crew needed a few more certs to sell. The SEC knows this guy is running a scam, or they have the same stupidity which allowed Madoff to con people for decades, and at this rate this guy will continue for as long.
Algae Farm (USA), Inc. (Pink Sheets: ALGF), announces that its Board of Directors has approved a 11 for 10 forward stock split revalued for its common stock only. The effective date is open of business June 30, 2011. Fractional Shares will be rounded up and shares are payable upon surrender of old certificates to the Company’s Transfer Agent, Pacific Stock Transfer Company. A “D” will be placed on the ticker symbol for 20 business days. After 20 business days, the symbol will revert back to the original symbol, ALGF.
ALGF divested its 63 Payday and Rage Uranium Mining Claims located in Utah to Colorado Goldfields, Inc. in an all stock transaction consisting of 125,000,000 shares of 1-year restricted Class A Common Stock and 125,000,000 shares of 2-year restricted Class A Common Stock. About Algae Farm (USA)
ALGF is a development stage renewable energy technology company. The Company is pursuing development and commercialization of algae and algal biomass production technology. The Company’s website is www.algaefarm.org, the contents of which are not incorporated by reference herein.
Safe Harbor
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and as such, may involve risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements, which are based on certain assumptions and describe future plans, strategies, and expectations, are generally identifiable by the use of words such as "believe," "expect," "intend," "anticipate," "estimate," "project," or similar expressions. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, expectations of the business environment in which the Company operates, projections of future performance, potential future performance, perceived opportunities in the market, and statements regarding the Company's mission and vision. The Company and all affiliated parties do not assume any duty to publicly update or revise the material contained herein.
In other words we are running a scam on top of other scams which will insure us that no one knew anything, at anytime. Yes, we all went to Harvard Business School but none of us know anything about accounting, ethics, truth, or morality, "we're just a bunch of crooks pursuing the Amercian dream".
George! :),
(only kidding). The world isn't coming to an end yet. Wall Street, and the publicly traded corporate thugs who've gorged themselves selling stock, and options, along with the fat bankers, financiers, and off shore hedgies who number near 10,000 in the Caymans alone, and who control half the NYSE, and half the London exchange, who had a field day with CDO's, and CDS's aren't quite finished yet.
I wouldn't put to much "stock" in our 3 rating agencies who now wish to downgrade our credit worthiness after being bought and paid for to help all the crooks in the financial industry like Goldmans, and the investment banks giving triple A ratings to the securities that brought down world economies that were nothing more than junk, garbage.
The very people who helped pave the way for all this were the very ones who helped generate the attitude that corruption, and fraud was the way to successfully bankrupt not only our nation, and its people, but the economies of the world, just so that 1 percent, could live 10x's over in the lap of luxury, and still be able to increase their wealth.
Do you not think there's something wrong when a US president has the power to nominate people like Greenspan, Cox, Summers, and to what affiliation were these presidents?, not be called to account for them?.
These people were all used feed the most greedy in the land. A system that allows publicly traded corporations to be used like personal ATM's for the insiders.............and in the midst of laying people off Bill Gates was selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stock every several days, weeks, and months at the expense of investors, or anyone who might have a mutual fund, or 401K whose managers invest in companies like this because of the name, and the revenue that it generates that on the surface looks to be a good place to grow ones investment, but in reality isn't. Its what taking place on the investment side, not what products the company is selling.
From this revenue is what should be making the salaries of these people, and like everyone else should have to work toward retirement to receive a pension. It shouldn't be spelled out in a contract for how many stocks they will receive, and what few years they have to serve in order to receive it at the expense of individual investors, and employees who want the money used for expansion, growth, and jobs. When a company stops growing so should the insiders salaries that should be paid out by check from the genrated revenues, "not from stock, or options". Just like any other employee who has to punch a time card.
This at its root has opened the door for this corruption, and its growth, same thing in the days of the Great Depression, something you and I are fortunate that we didn't have to live thru, less we had a bootlegging operation going on :). Just look at the OTC market, "All are crooks, all are scams", but our system allows for them to file S-8's, and 504D's, and in its reality there's is little to no accountability, and its a market where these CDS's were being sold and purchased, and where 20,000 scammers exist with at least 1/3 of them trading daily, and with no oversight.
Just put your money under your mattress, you'll draw just as much interest, and you'll at least be able to look, and count at it now and then. Its as safe there as anywhere else, and if for some reason it becomes worthless we can use it to start a backyard campfire with so we can roast hot dogs, or marshmellows.:) As long as you're throwing the party! :)