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To: GST who wrote (89953)	5/3/2013 1:10:57 PM
From: benwood	35 Recommendations Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 119360

To me, the root cause is fascism -- the merging of corporations and the state. Corporations are designed to benefit the few, and do. It is getting worse, not better, because it's a positive feedback loop, and it is militarizing. Start by reinstating the Constitution. Address issues like NY City's forcible stop-and-frisk behavior, the undeclared martial law imposed in Boston two weeks ago, warrantless domestic spying, stuff like that. Add an amendment to the Constitution that corporations are not people. I'd also amend the Constitution to make the President elected from a coalition gov't, thus allowing the rise of alternate parties since getting a few seats in the House will start to matter. BushObama ought to make it abundantly clear to any sentient beings that there is just one party with two heads. Or maybe just one head now... Reinstate Glass-Stegal; revamp the monetary system; make it illegal for the top 20+ economies' gov'ts to buy their own debt ala banana republic eliminate the Fed prohibit insider trading by elected reps; prohibit the gov't (through the Fed or US Treasure or any other means) to purchase anything like stocks or private bonds or fraudulent derivatives or whatever get rid of Fanny/Freddie, which only syphon off taxpayer money and inflate housing prices pull our military out of the least important 100 to 125 countries take the hundreds of billions in savings and reduce taxes, improve our health care, shore up FDIC, restate that deposit insurance is here to stay and that above that, you better do your DD for whomever you hand your millions reduce the health care act to 25 pages or less, single payer, require price estimates for prospective patients stop putting drug addicts and 'illegals' in prison, the stupidest waste of money ever, or would be except for defense spending eliminate all public defined benefit pensions I could go on, but why? Better to encourage people to read the stuff of Bill Fleckinstein, Chris Hedges, Jarod Diamond, Heinz Blasnik, and many others.