Real solutions for a financial recovery which do not cost a single tax dollar.

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It's simple, much if not all of what ails us economically can be solved without costing one thin dime, that is what we mean by a ZERO COST RECOVERY.

Many of today's ills have come from easily reversible causes, here are a few to start you thinking:
- The Bible condemns usury (sort of); whether or not you are religious, this make great sense.

- Big Banks don't work for America or Americans (or anyone else for that matter). Consolidation was touted as a way to lower costs, provide better service and more affordable fees to customers. Can anyone show me an example where these promised economies of scale came to life? How about the lower fees and better service?

- Bigger is not better, that is why anti-trust legislation was enacted. Today's financial crisis was brought to a head by the unvarnished greed of the giant banks, financial institutions and corporations with the complicity of the majority of our legislators, it is just that simple.

- The "Free market" is not the cause of this problem, the fact that it has been castrated, prostituted and redefined by the greedy is. "Free market" does not mean a market without rules, or domination by the richest and most powerful. Without meaningful competition, free markets cannot, and do not, exist - period.

Rollback, update and aggressively enforce meaningful anti-trust & financial sector regulations and the root cause will be eliminated. How about requiring a binding contract guaranteeing that all consumer beneficial promises be a part of all mergers and acquisitions? To be effective, it should include an onerous non compliance clause!

- The Stock Market is not synonymous with the economy, it is gambling pure and simple, and is one of the economy's greatest ills - complete with crooked bookies. A simple truth is wherever there is gambling there are people who find sophisticated ways to cheat.
- "A Free & Independent Press is the Cornerstone of Democracy". I don't know who first said it, but they were spot on. Today's media does not hold the rich and powerful accountable, it is owned by them; they are at the core of the problem.
- Food costs have more than doubled, yet the family farmer is struggling while large corporate farmers are getting huge subsidies. One solution would be enacting anti-trust legislation that forbids the huge conglomerates which are so dominant in critical industries from operating at more than one level in the manufacturing and distribution chain.... Grow it, process it, distribute it or retail it - choose one!
- The price of oil at the well head is dramatically different from the price we see quoted on the TV each night. The difference is created by speculators in the commodities markets (the same holds true for food and other vital commodities). Force the CFTC to re-institute the commodities speculation guideline that were in place prior to 1990.
- Big Pharma spends far more on marketing and lobbyists than on R&D, some say the figure is twice as much. How much do you think this adds to what your prescriptions cost? Lobby our legislators to allow Medicare to negotiate drug costs with their manufacturers and watch prices fall to the levels enjoyed in most other countries.
- Health care costs are skyrocketing yet Physicians pay has decreased dramatically. How much do you think the near monopolies in Health Insurance and HMO's contribute to this?
-Corporations are NOT People. Our Founding Fathers did not think so when they formed our nation, why are we allowing it now?

Monopolies and oligopolies are the root causes of our problems. Cure these ills, and our financial woes will evaporate WITHOUT COSTING ONE DIME.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

I truly care about life from conception to the grave, do you?



Dear President Obama,

While I agree with this conservative mantra, there are a lot of "but if's" that are part of the defining equation.

My first area of concern is the tradition of our government to make laws which allow the writers to "eat their cake and have it too". If laws are passed which are based upon personal beliefs put onerous burdens on those effected by them, the government must fully bear the financial burden of recompense. It is only fair and it is only right.

If a woman has made the choice to have a child, there is a good argument that she and her partner are responsible for that life until it reaches maturity. On the other hand, what if the pregnancy occurred because of faulty birth control? Or was totally outside the woman's sphere of control like rape, or any other outside of the box reason? Who bears the emotional and financial costs of rearing that child? The financial backers of the legislation will protect the manufacturer of the defective birth control and ignore the problems of the mother and child.

I agree that every life be it unborn, in its most vital years or near death,  deserves the support of our society. What I have a problem with is the hypocracy of those who use abortion as a smoke screen to obscure their stance against Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

It would be refreshing to hear a politician call this spade a spade by addressing this core question. Mr. President, are you up to it?

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