Archive | February 2012
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Throw Them All Out!
Profiting on insider trading is not illegal and pending legislation to make it illegal won’t stop it! The fact that our legislators are brazen enough to personally profit through stock market trades on legal maneuvering they themselves are creating and voting on is immoral enough, but to learn that this behavior is […]
Thirty Profitable Companies Paid No Taxes In Three Years
There is no justice in a system when the powerful can make the rules to benefit themselves at the cost of society. 280 companies – all from the Fortune 500 list – all profitable in the last three years – paid about half the legal tax rate because of special loopholes. These […]
Our Taxes Pay Millionaires’ Salaries
Taxpayers have been giving cash to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae every quarter since September 2008 and the top 10 executives have taken home about $6 Million each per year! So we work hard and pay our taxes to give to multi-millionaires? Refer to article: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives score $100 million […]
Sandusky Reveals Society’s Need For Status Quo
Honesty, truth and compassion have been soundly defeated by injustice, lying and greed. I have been blind with rage for the last week as I’ve watched the powerful men of Penn State attempt to retain their power and reputations at the expense of truth, honesty, and accepting responsibility for their actions and willful inaction. […]
Iceland Loses Its Banks, Finds Its Wealth
What happens when “too big to fail” banks are too big to save? Iceland found out! Three banks had assets 11 times greater than Iceland’s GDP and couldn’t be rescued – and the country found their wealth! Could it be that Iceland is rebounding economically precisely because its banks went out of business? The greater […]
With Liberty and Justice for Some
On October 25th this book was published bringing the judicial system state of emergency to the forefront of discussion. The whole point of a legal system in society is to uniformly apply a set of preexisting rules to everyone EQUALLY. Inequality in every other realm of our lives is inevitable and […]
Trust No One
In fact, “trust no one” has essentially served as Americans’ motto over the last two generations. Specifically, the proportion of Americans who say that most people can be trusted fell by more than 24% during the last 50 years. There certainly is something wrong with a society that considers it risky to […]
Congress Can’t Cut Budget
The hem-hawing around by our elected officials in cutting their own budget is childish and fraudulent. Please keep in mind that last week we the taxpayers spent roughly $107.8 million on Congress: Salaries of Members of Congress and their allowances/week: Speaker of the House: $223,500/52 = $4,299 House and Senate Majority […]
Judicial System Flawed
Judges and attorneys constitute 10 of the 15 members of the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission which reviews judges accused of misconduct. Ordinary citizens only have a token role in the decision-making process. This is like letting the accused choose 8 of the 12 jurors at their trial. Reference the following article: Judicial Qualifications Commission
Don’t Blame Individualism – Blame Lack Of Community
Individualism in the context of strong community is what challenged corrupt authority and demanded respect for the dignity of the individual during the onset of our great nation. During most of our human history, monarchs and religious dignitaries dictated the experience of all members of a society. Just a few centuries ago, a portion of […]
