campaign finance reform is needed to change things.lets demand that this happens next.lets seek out what thoms hartmann and jim hightower ideas are to see this happen. jim talks about how loop holes are made for the corporations and politicians can get around reform. lets seek out thom and jim's guidance on this and make true reform happen. thom and jim i ask you to help us see that true campaign finance reform happens.

Having been in Tech before it was called that-since 1982-and hearing all the talk and seeing the results of that talk the past 3 decades, my point of view is from the experience of having been an employee, a contractor, and a business owner. Seen the inside of lots of name brand corporations and the greed and waste therein is ridiculous. That is where the solution is for things-facing that reality and requiring leadership that doesn’t act like those things are normal, ok or not even there. This leads into off shore –out sourcing whatever you want to call it. In the long term has never saved money for us –you and me the consumer- nationally. It has increased the profits of the corporations that do it. Prices have never gone down for the customer with any outsourcing, and continue to rise in spite of it. We must take responsibility nationally for our own money needs, and bring leadership and profit in line with that. There is more than enough money to take care of everything, it is about how much profit is reasonable (and unreasonable) that drives costs up. The mentality that Upper Management personnel should make millions of dollars a year is gross negligence pure and simple in broad daylight. Everyone is told that ‘mentality’ and how we see things makes the difference about getting things done. Start there-get Management that believes in healthcare 1st – you know do the job – and can also be the kind of human that 500k a year tops is enough to live on. I believe in free enterprise and innovation and rewards but anyone who needs more than that annually is not a ‘team’ player IMO. I have made that kind of money a year (100-500k) sometimes w/o being in management, and have done just fine even with a large family thank you and have no professional respect for anyone that personally makes millions and then is in charge of raising prices and cutting employees.

I also have even less respect for those who aren't making that kind of money and accept or justify those that do. It shows what they wish to be someday. None of this approach to 'success' is long term productive for anyone but a small few who run things into the ground and then demand to be able to continue to collect money when it costs everyone else but them. As a sales person I have to deal with this mentality climbing up the corporate ladder, or the person already there-a CEO/CFO/CIO often - and it makes it near impossible to negotiate anything based reality or saving money in spite of a great amount of talk and buzz word jargon that seems to convey that such things are what are the goal. I do have Accounts that I have prospected and obtained that are not peopled by these aforementioned types. Some of them you have heard about in the news as Healthcare innovators for cutting cost and raising services all with domestic employees They are the model of the future.