I agree with every word that you type out. And I am getting along in years – I thought that with Bill Clinton assuming the Presidency, that marijuana would be legalized once he was in office. But he hid from the issue.

Like you say, the PTB are fully in line with each other on this one. Companies like Monsanto want it kept illegal till they have destroyed every last ounce of non-GM marijuana.

For certain, Big Pharma wants it kept illegal, as Big Pharma is patenting the cannibinoids inside the plant on a weekly basis.They don’t want to endanger one cent of their profit margin by allowing people to grow it freely.

Then you have the Big Prison industry – one of the few growing American industries. They love keeping drugs illegal. So do the banks – the Bigger Banks make tens of billions of dollars a year on account of laundering illegal drug monies. (This is one major reason that the Financial Firms do not want to be audited, and claim they must ensure the “privacy” of their participants’ accounts!)

In 2006, I went out to look to at homes in this area (Lake county, Calif.) Only one home was available for under 150 K – and it could hardly be called a home, It was a beaten down wreck of a trailer that would have needed to be torn apart and rebuilt. Every other home on the market was over 200K, with most homes being over 350K.

Now some six years later, all those homes are underwater, as the latest real estate books show that most homes are available from anywhere between the price points of 89 K to 179 K. California’s housing prices have been destroyed, and families have been destroyed along with this manipulative action of the banks and mortgage companies.

I have helped several families fill out and deal with this HARP program (though I thought it was called HAMP?) The people get the run around. They are told to send things in. They must make certain declarations. They spend months complying, with the bank insisting they need all this paperwork.

Finally the bank says it has what it need for the re financing. But then within three weeks, the bank claims it never recieved any of the submitted paperwork. Luckily for people I helped, they did audio or video recordings of everything that was said over the phone so the bank cannot back out like this. But many people are getting screwed over, as they are not recording their phone interactions with the banks.

It is also important to realize that the banks insured their mortgages – so they are not really out anything. And many people have walked away from the original home they purchased, in order to actually get a better home for less money.

Meanwhile, the revenue for the state from taxes on property and homes is also in serious decline. When I think of how Obama’s administration has offered up some 255 billions of dollars for weaponry in the same period that California needed and was refused a loan from Tim Geithner, I want to cry.

Had no idea that Jamie ws pat of the mix. Oh well. it’s just about money. Money that would be ours, if the rules weren’t rigged to make sure that every last penny of the Middle Class goes to their own health care, student loans, home mortgages that are largely under water, and whatnot.

Thank you for bringing this matter up here on FDL.

Elliott Spitzer is about the only person who really saw huge penalties for his involvement regarding Wall Street. And they went after him, on account of the fact that he was going to prosecute THEM. Who knows – if he ahdn’t been seeing that escort, Tim Geithner may have faced RICO charges for the crap he pulled while the Head Honcho of The NY Fed, autumn 2008.

But on account of the Bush crime family going after Elliot Spitzer, using Homeland Security wire-transfer tapping privileges to do so, we saw Spitzer run out of office. And so Tim Geithner was left free for his Autumn 2008 gifts to the people at AIG and at Goldman Sachs.

I am luvving your quote. Thank you.

That my hosehold’s take as well. Glad to see that others are able to think clearly.

This nation is now a plutocracy. The only difference between Republicans and Dems happens to be women’s issues. But it is a racist matter to keep marijuana Schedule One. The poor, jobless black young adult that gets caught with marijuana is more likely than his white middle class counterpart to serve jail time. Once he does that, he will find in near impossible to get a job. And you could even make the case that Obama’s decision to put elderly ladies with MS in prison is a war on older women. Women are far more likely to have immune disorders than men.

Totally agree. Not happily agree. Rather sadly agree.

When the last line in the sand, that Obama continue his respect for Calif.’s Medical Marijuana laws was kicked aside by DOJ and IRS, I have now decided that I will be voting third party for the presidency. I don’t care if that means a Republican gets in.

We worked so hard in Calif. to enable sick people with rheumatoid arthritis, MS, cancer and migraines to avoid paying huge Big Pharma costs, and to avoid having to go to jail – when Obama couldn’t even honor the citizens of Calif. with that lil bone, I gave up on him.