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I was going to say footloose and fancy free, but that isn't true. I would say easy going, optimistic and quick to laugh.

Executive Pay Spiraling Upward As Corporations Race To Pay Their Bosses The Most

Are you kidding me? This makes me think of Herman Cain saying that if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich it’s your fault.So Mr. Cain, I guess that I can assume that you didn’t get your salary because you earned it it’s because the other guys salary was high so yours had to be high, not your fault. But if you fail its your fault. That is just stupid. C.E.O’s, who should have been out on their ear and yet make more money despite poor performanc­e and people who are jobless, through no fault of their own and it’s their own fault. This is why I can never vote republican­, they attack the less fortunate unmerciful­ly and apply all the corporate welfare programs to those who don’t need it and do not in any conceivabl­e way deserve it.
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Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General, Proceeding With Unlawful Foreclosure Lawsuits

I hope that the A.G’s, especially from MA, CA and NY coordinate together because why not, since the big banks have their tentacles everywhere­, and get down to the criminal fraud and set precedents in the law that would strengthen any future legal actions against future potential criminal behavior. I think that they should call for big repayment accounts to be set up because the banks need to finally acknowledg­e their responsibi­lity in this horrific economic crisis and make substantia­l amends. Not only for causing the meltdown but for actively keeping the crisis going and extending the financial pain of homeowners for longer than it should.
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Candidate-Specific Super PACs Offer End Run For Maxed-Out Donors: Study

I know that part of the list of demands is the call for abolishing the Citizen’s United ruling establishi­ng corporatio­ns as having the right to free speech thus able to contribute willy-nill­y to political campaigns. This demand should be in the top five of priorities for 99%, the 98%, the Save the American Dream group and I know that it is the top priority for Progressiv­es United. Until we get big money out of politics, our politician­s will continue to ignore the needs of the majority of the people who are suffering the most. It is unnatural that the top 1% control over 70% of the wealth in our country. We are drowning here, take your pick; student loan debt, mortgage or home equity debt and credit card debt. Our median wages haven’t risen in at least 2 decades while everything around us has escalated in cost.Hence the reason for debt. This is unsustaina­ble for our society and until this gets addressed by those in power, the movement will grow and those same politician­s will soon know what it means to be unemployed
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Do you agree with the death penalty?

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Death penalty, Deterrent, postaday2011

When I was much younger, I agreed with it but over the years I have come to the conclusion that it is doesn’t serve society any purpose. There are crimes that elicit such a visceral reaction that your first thought is kill the bastard. After taking a step back calmly and rationally, you ask yourself does the death penalty really serve a purpose for society other than revenge. The institution that now provides the death penalty has come under examination because we have seen two cases that terminated two lives that had serious questions of innocence just in the last month. We also need to examine the inherent racism in death penalty cases.There needs to be an examination as to why there is such a disparity in the ratio of Caucasian to African-American. I am very uncomfortable with the death penalty because there have been, even before Troy Davis’ case, questionable executions and cases where at the last-minute there had to be a stay of execution. There was an exceptionally wise man who said “better to free 100 guilty men than execute one innocent man”.

Moreover, the central question that surrounds the justification of the death penalty is the deterrent factor of its implementation. Does the death penalty really serve as a deterrent? According to some comparative studies, the statistics surrounding murders per capita between states with the death penalty against states without shows that the states with the death penalty had higher murder rates per capita. So if you judge the question based on the efficacy of its deterrence than you would be hard pressed to continue implementing the death penalty. It doesn’t do what it has set out to do, deter crimes that are punishable by death.

That is all that I care to write about this subject, I find it distasteful and very depressing. I need some lightness right about now so I will bid you adieu and I am off to watch the most delightful show “Glee”.