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Friday January 29, 2010 · 1:05 PM PST

2010/01/29 · 13:05

Well, hey; it's night for me, I'm stuck working in a country East of Italy, it's Friday night, and I'm listening to Blue Highway and Gomez, so a good rant seems in order.

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Friday January 08, 2010 · 7:48 AM PST

2010/01/08 · 07:48

Strategic defaults when property is underwater is nothing new to large investors, yet these same people exhort us to continue to pay our mortgages, essentially telling us that we are required to work for them. Well, the New York Times finally gets it. Yesterday a fine article written by Roger Lowenstein entitled Walk Away From Your Mortgage! was published. That, in my opinion is very fine advice.

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 10:54 AM PDT

2009/10/07 · 10:54

Three recent items caught my attention:

The takeover of Solvay by Abbott.

The company I work for transferring more than half of R&D to India.

A little article in the Huffington Post that decries the lack of people to fill positions requiring highly specific "dead end" training because companies refuse to take technically literate people and develop them for limited functions.

What do these have in common? They all represent choices that are now ingrained within our society that strategically prevent anything but a statistically based recovery for a finance-centric view of our economy.

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Wednesday September 23, 2009 · 9:52 AM PDT

2009/09/23 · 09:52

I couldn't put it any better. This is well worth reading. Nobel economists Joseph E. Stiglitz and Amartya Sen were asked to examine the metrics of economic prosperity. The conclusion does not surprise me, but is something that I think has remained unstated until this current and profound failure of relying on current metrics to govern an economy. GDP and growth, in other words the metrics of wealth acquisition, fails to measure the economic life of a nation's citizens.

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Saturday August 22, 2009 · 5:40 PM PDT

2009/08/22 · 17:40

My congressman, mark kirk, IL-10, would rather support China than Americans who are caught in a dysfunctional health care system. Well, on his site he has a poll that we can have fun with.

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Thursday August 06, 2009 · 8:30 AM PDT

2009/08/06 · 08:30

It is obvious that our government supports the financial sector, and with Health Care Reform morphing into Health Insurance Reform, support for insurer’s profits through mandates may be the next bailout. I remain thankful that there has been an attempt at promoting working American’s short-term employment using government stimulus that is starting to work. Yet, there is a profound absence of policies and law designed to rectify the abuses of the past 30 years resulting in a government that has absolved itself of responsibility towards the welfare of its citizens and instead promotes the welfare of corporations. The flow of money across our borders and treatment of workers as commodities (which is even more debased than treating people as cogs in a machine) is going full speed; and the brakes are off.

A report by Duke University and The Conference Board reveals why there is probably no relief in sight. The incentives, created by finance, that cripple maintaining or initiating value-added work in our nation continue to reward wealth at the expense of labor

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Friday July 31, 2009 · 5:58 AM PDT

2009/07/31 · 05:58

I am a supporter of single payer. Government management of large programs has always been demonstrably more efficient and egalitarian than anything created in the marketplace. And, we need to have universal health care, with the burden shared universally, to bring America, kicking and screaming, into the modern world, and actually improve the lives of its citizens. Only single payer has any hope of doing that.

AlterNet, Joshua Holland, wrote an interesting article on How Corporate Media, Sellouts in Congress and Industry Bigs Have Hijacked the Health Care Debate.

It is worth reading.

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Friday July 10, 2009 · 5:31 PM PDT

2009/07/10 · 17:31

I received a email response from the office of Roland Burris today which echos what I have been hearing when calling. A very positive message.

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Thursday July 09, 2009 · 8:24 AM PDT

2009/07/09 · 08:24

Just something short, which I think is the product of a policy of maintaining the financial industry status-quo.

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 3:31 PM PDT

2009/06/24 · 15:31

I've been critical of Dick Durbin recently, as he has, in my mind, waffled on a strong statement supporting a publicly administered public option. He was just on The Ed Show.

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Wednesday June 17, 2009 · 3:52 PM PDT

2009/06/17 · 15:52

I finally got a response from Mr. Durbin after a series of emails and calls where I've asked him to support a strong, competitive, public option, and asked what steps he is taking to make that a reality for me and his constituents. From this meager missive, I can only interpret the response as a solid NO for the public option.

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Tuesday June 09, 2009 · 1:58 PM PDT

2009/06/09 · 13:58

I've been invested in health care access reform, but for a moment need to get less serious.

Outsourcing CEOs is not my idea. Just Google the term and it comes up again and again. Isn’t it about time to actually put this into action?

Actually, there have been CEOs that I admire, people like Aaron Feuerstein from Malden Mills, which unfortunately sucummed to several things, including the destruction of the American fabric industry. But, for the most part, we can significantly help our society and our economy by reducing direct costs and the costs of predatory behavior by outsourcing CEOs, and perhaps much of top business administration.

Let's investigate this.

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