J. P. Morgan would be so-0 proud of this little jewel "Dimon". Alles was part of the 13 families who rule(d) the world. NOW< we have Chris Hayes and Thom telling it like it will be; oh, be not afraid...the Force is with you. WE are soverign people, and, WE must assert our rights--NOW. Those bad boys thrive on risk--it's their meat; the symbol of Wall ST. "The BULL" . Yes, Thom it all must come down--2016 or sOOner; to build aNew.

The rich want to justify their abuse of the poor by denying their humanity or denying their adulthood as is always done when one group wants to exploit another. It was traditionally done with women, African-Americans and other exploited racial groups. A woman was a "girl" not a woman, an Africa-American man was a "boy" not a man and other racial groups were considered children by their exploiters who need their "great white father". The same is done to the poor by the better off to justify exploiting them.

Poor people don't deserve paternalistic nanny state. Welfare is "to teach people self sufficiency" says Thom' conservative Big Picture Rumble panelist. Give them the means to be self sufficient and they will be. Fund education, invest in their communities. Walmart is the ONLY business that invests in poor communities because they want to exploit their desperation.

Welfare is not charity but justice. It, and other government social programs, are an attempt to make up for the grand thefts from the poor. It is an attempt to make up for the denial of their right to work and their gross undercompenasation for the work they do when they can work.

Hardly a slap on the wrist. An individual (person) who admitteed fraud would get several years in Federal prison. To do that to a company they would have to pay a the same as them the profits from that many years. Make the stockholders liable for that loss by not allowing thke loss by noy allowing the loss as a deductible business expense. If companies are to be considered a "person" they shoulld be penalized to the same extent as a "born of a woman" person rather than a "born of an application to a state Attorney General".

Quote ckrob:How about a brief email to Reid expressing support for his action? Reinforcement gets more of the behavior reinforced. I do dislike getting on their list, however. (Small inconvenience?)

ckrob ~ I think that is an excellent suggestion. Thanks for mentioning it. Consider it done.

By the way, here is the link:

http://www.reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

How about a brief email to Reid expressing support for his action? Reinforcement gets more of the behavior reinforced. I do dislike getting on their list, however. (Small inconvenience?)

I had the most disturbing dream last night. Yesterday the wind here in the Bay Area started to blow with a vengeance. The weather service predicted 35 mph winds with 45 mph gusts and up to 65 mph gusts in the elevations. The wind blowing through the trees sounded like a herd of horses being stampeded. I think it was these conditions that provoked the dream.

After I went to bed the dream began with me sitting in our old living room watching TV in the early evening just after supper. I was quite comfortable when I heard some rustling in the bushes outside in the front yard. I got up and went outside to see what was happening. I found two homeless men trying to make a place to lie down in my front yard. I said, "Hey, you don't belong there. Get off my property!"

The older of the two, a short slender man with grey hair in his late 50's or early 60's stepped forward and pleaded with me, "Please sir. It is so very cold outside. We just want a little cover so we can take a nap. We'll be gone in the morning. Can we stay?"

"Absolutely not." I said. "If I let you stay you'll be back tomorrow. You'll be making a habit out of it. Now get!" I waited for them to close the gate behind them till going back in the house. That was the end of that--at least for the evening.

The next evening the wind began to blow outside much like it was in reality. I was sitting like before in the front room watching TV. A strong burst of wind blew open my front door. Even though it was dark outside and early evening there was a strong light coming from outside. I went to the porch and there were now 5 homeless people standing in the yard. They were straining against the wind. There hair blowing all over their heads and faces. There was the same two I recognized from the previous evening. There was also a larger, younger man, an old woman, and an 8 year old boy.

The older man I spoke with the night before stepped forward, "Sir," he said. "I know how you feel about us on your property; but, I just had to ask you one more time. You see, with this weather I don't think we can make it through the night. If you could just find it in your heart to let us sleep on your porch tonight, we would be forever grateful. Please don't turn us away." With all the light shining from above I could make out each of their faces. Without a though I said, "Hurry, get inside. You can sleep in the house tonight."

Suddenly, 5 cots with cushions, blankets, and pillows appeared in my living room. The group quickly picked one cot apiece and sat down. They all profusely thanked me and assured me that they wouldn't be any bother. Somehow I had other things on my mind. I could see how they were dressed in tattered and filthy cloths. Their faces were crested with dirt. My first thought was that since they were in my house they were going to have to have showers and have their clothes washed before they left. How was I going to swing that, I thought?

I looked at the child and could see in his face that he was starving. I suddenly realized that they all were probably very hungry. I asked them if they were. The older man replied, "Oh no. We're fine. We just needed to get out of the cold, isn't that right?" He asked the rest who all nodded agreement. All that is except the child who just stared at me with hungry eyes. "Wait here," I said, as I went to the kitchen. The kitchen--for some reason--seemed to have two refrigerators. I opened the first one to see it practically empty. Just a couple leaves of lettuce and a few pieces of broccoli and cauliflower. The second one looked the same. Not enough to feed a small group of hungry people.

That is when I noticed the boy had followed me and was looking over my shoulder. "Get back to the other room and wait with the others." I said to him. He staid, staring at the empty refrigerators. I was very troubled with the idea that I didn't have any food to feed these people. Along with that emotion I had a deep sense of well being knowing that I let them stay--along with a deep regret that I turned them away before. Now that regret was being increased with the idea that I couldn't feed them. I decided that I was going to feed them no matter what. I was going to find something in this kitchen they could eat...

Then I woke up suddenly. The dream was over. It was about 2:20 am and I could still hear the wind blowing outside. This time it suddenly occurred to me that there were real people outside in this weather tonight desperately trying to survive in the wind and the cold. I couldn't go back to sleep.

"A society is in serious trouble when its political pariahs have at the core of their demand a return to the rule of law. This inversion, with our political and cultural outcasts demanding a respect for law, highlights the awful fact that the most radical and retrograde forces [currently with Barac Obama at its pinnacle] within the body politic have seized control. All conventional forms of dissent, from the electoral politics to open debates, have been denied us. We cannot rely on institutions that once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible. The only route left is to disconnect as thoroughly as possible from the consumer society and engage in acts of civil disobedience and obstruction. The more we sever ourselves from the addictions of fossil fuel and the consumer society, the more we begin to create a new paradigm for community. The more we engage in physical acts of defiance - as Bill McKibben and others did in front of the White House to protest the building of the Keystone XL pipeline - the more we keep alive a new, better way of relating to one another and the ecosystem."

"We must stop being afraid. We have to turn our backs for good on the Democrats [including banksterette Hillary], no matter what ghoulish candidate the Republicans offer up for president. All the public disputes between candidates in the election cycle are a carnival act. On the issues that matter, there is no disagreement among the Republicans and Democrats. We have to defy all formal systems of power. We have to create monastic enclaves where we can retain and nurture the values being rapidly destroyed by the wider corporate culture and build the mechanisms of self-sufficiency that will allow us to survive."

The above passage is from "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" by TRUE Americans Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.

Indeed worse than a joke. The “fines” are written off on corporate taxes as business expenses, meaning that the “fines” will be paid by US citizens and are another form of externalizing corporate costs.

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The 1%AmCrimClass are DEPENDENT on legislative fiction "legalizing" their culture of greed and corruption. To amass their immense wealth the real parasites of our crumbling Republic depend on "legalized" tax-evasion, annual welfare checks in the billions justified by legislative fiction in every imagineable form. The 1%AmCrimClass are truly Government-Made million-billionaires and probably to the man and woman trillionaires if their stashes in off-shore vaults are ever exposed for a count. Actually, Congress-Made billionaires. The only conservatism and "Liberty & Freedom" they believe in is the ability to plunder U.S.Treasury, resources, revenues and the People's Commons at will with impunity. It should ire every citizen of the 99% besides me and a few others when these reprobates crow that they are "Man-Made" and "worked hard for all they have earned." Gag, vomit, ad nauseam. This class of absolute traitors have yet to earn a single dollar of their immense wealth that isn't tainted by their culture of greed and corruption.

The only item I take issue with is the tax write off. From everything I have read JP Morgan Chase, which has 83 subsidiaries in offshore tax havens and like many of its counterparts, pays little or no income taxes so they miss out on this deduction.

Senator Sanders will bring an important voice for the many who are have none. His values embodies those of the New Democrats, Greens and other progressive liberals who feel disenfranchised by our present political system. To win or lose in the primary is not as important as creating the format to present critical thinking for specific solutions. We need solutions to global warming, job stimulus programs, single payer health care, green energy programs, affordable housing for single income families, increase in minimum wage, immigration reform, higher teacher salaries, lower class size, reduction in defense, prison and overlapping law enforcement, and an end to cannabis prohibition. Just to name a few. Thank you for the consideration, sir. It will be a worthy challenge only a few with courage like Bernie could pull off.