This came out several years ago, that corporations are not limited in the gathering of personal information about the populace in some ways that the government is constrained, legally, from obtaining. Then, the corporations sell it to the guvmint.

I have said it elsewhere, and it is expressed in this piece. This may be the true end of the ‘American Experiment’. And it has been shown that democracy can’t maintain it’s own existence, due to the ability of money and power to corrupt basic fairness. The Constitution has been rendered inoperable in vast swathes.

Really shows how profoundly different and moral mindset was required to create the US Constitution in the first place, and small the minds are of those in power now. Starting at the top.

Forgot toadd. Five years ago, tuition was 188 a credit. That’s ten times mor since 1974, and 30 times since 1952

I started at the University of Washington in the fall of 1974.

Tuition? 188 a quarter.

Dorm room and board? 1350 for three quarters.

I worked in a theater making 2 dollars an hour and my father gave me 175 a month. I paid for everything on that.

That’s just at 2 grand a year including books.

My dad’s tuition, same school, 1952 was 188 a year.

My son goes to Cal Poly SLO, state school. Tuition has tripled in five years, to 4 k a quarter, and with all his expenses, we’re into it around 2 thousand a month. Just like your example, he’d have to work overtime at a good job to come even close to paying his way after taxes.

I’m a free tuition for all guy, but absent that, zero per cent loans for students.

It just ain’t right

Oh, it’s polarized all right. But NOT in the way you propose.

All the politicians are on the right. There exists NO functional left any longer, except in the private sector.

When was the last time a sincere left, liberal, or progressive proposal came from DC Dems, aside from peripheral, social issues?

And please don’t tout Obamacare. That is hardly even a D/democratic action.

Wow, dude. Seriously? That you can say that out loud, in relative public, says a lot about you, let alone those who told you that joke.

You have the right to say it, to be sure, but when you do, you reveal much about yourself to the rest of us.

Relating it in that matter is just the same as just posting the joke.

notreallyliberal would be a better moniker for you.

http://www.ryot.org/opinion-pot-crackdowns-in-california-are-abusive-and-ineffectual/50718

This is a link to just one of the cases the feds are prosecuting, with minimums of ten years in federal prison at stake.

THAT’s Holder’s and Obama’s response

This is the Obama DOJ that is preparing to sentence a LEGAL marijuana operator under California law to TEN YEARS in the penitentiary.

Fuck this guy. and by this guy, I mean the entire administration, top to bottom.

That’s a red herring. the crimes occurred BEFORE the purchase, not after.

Wells also did not engage in the widespread sub-prime loan debacle, and lead the way, of all banks, in re-financing troubled borrowers.

At the risk of coming under fire, I have to take exception with your characterization of Wells Fargo as a money launderer.

It really is necessary to place that comment in context.

Wachovia engaged in money laundering, prior to it’s possession by WFC. I tire of those who continually besmirch the name of Wells in the same breath as those big banks who REQUIRED bailing out(Wells was forced to take $25 billion by the feds, and paid it back as soon as they were allowed). They did not engage in the derivatives and suspect securities markets that blew up our economy.

Stop this shit already. At least stop implying something that did not happen.

I picked up Open Veins a few years back. Yes, I was educated in the US, and graduated high school in 1974, and never heard of any of this. It was just the typical this or that explorer conquered this or that civilization.

Very powerful book. The devastation wrought by our ancestors from Europe is almost inconceivable. Would that more people were aware of our history more intimately. Perhaps we’d be a little more circumspect in our actions now.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I’m surprised that anyone who still supports Obama could possibly be delusional enough to consider themselves a liberal.

Obama won?

First of all, how does that even mean anything, given what he has cone over that last four years?

Second. How does winning a contest of lying your ass off to delude voters evn merit discussion?

You act as though any of this mental masturbation means anything to the state of our union.