I lke the way veryone talks about everything but the banks.

I enjoyed the first statement, get rid of all the banks and use state banks only.

We would truly be free once again.

Real question is how do we do that?

Ken W, I never said we shouldn't give the kids the lunch. I questioned why it has to be done at a Federal level. What has happened to OUR countries that the local community can't do it. Yes maybe you should bank in Canada it has been ranked the best banking system in the world for 8 years. Our politicians don't leave office worth 10 of millions of dollars like yours. You could probaly learn from that as well. There serve their countries and leave with a big fat pension. Yours leave with 10 of millions, maybe none of my business but just a suggestion google your politictions net worth its shocking, and you bitch about private CEO's at least thats not your money there making.

Please don't lecture me on our Canadian oil running throug your country. First of all it is all American oil companies up here producing the oil, so its ok to mess with our country but god forbid we run a perfectly safe pipeline through yours. With all due respect my freind Americans have been in every country in the world screwing up there enviroment making billions. Just look at Nigeria you have done a great job there. You have destroyed that counties country side, yes Ameriacan oil companies my freind.

You are right though when it comes to not knowing what goes on down there, I don't know but if you recall when I talked about the Fed. lunch program I asked for help understanding it. For the record I coached minor hockey for 15 years and started both a summer hockey school for low income families and a program for kids who could not afford to play do so. Why I get mad was those parents of those children always had smokes and booze, sorry but it pisses me off.

Palindromedary ~ As far as the links in the music are concerned allow me to cite the areas in Revelation that refer to the event. They are from a parenthetical Chapter 14 and 15. The verses are so:

Revelation 14:1 ¶And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

3 And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

Revelation 15:1 ¶And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.

2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

My friend, as far as the fulfillment of this prophecy is concerned fast forward (not backwards) to about midway through the Oakland Coliseum Live Aid concert I sent the link to. Look for John Fogerty wearing an A's cap. That is the song you need to learn. I can't simplify it more than that. Either you get it, or you don't. Don't despair not getting it is not the end of the world, my friend.

Does everyone know that money (its concept) was introduced around 4000 years ago to make the rich folks pay for their use of the commons via taxes. It is ironically called Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). This reply is mostly related to some comments from yesterday but certainly has a lot to do with banks.

We all know the problems we have with the banks and Hartmann has no problem bitching about them, but how do we correct the problems? Take our funds from one bank to another, when they are all the same? Hartmann is a big time business man himself, so what has he done in his personal dealings with the Banks to help change things? Maybe we should all bank in Canada, with all the denouncing of America and our institutions, Kend and his countrymen must have found the solution. Otherwise he would not take the time each day to point out how "bad" off America and her citizens are! Well Kend, how does the great country of Canada do it? Are all your politicians on the up and up, or just the right-wingers? For a non-American, you sure find a great deal to criticize here in the lower 50! Maybe we should run another pipeline from Canada to Texas, so another corporation can export Canadian oil processed into gasoline for China and other countries outside of the United States! That sounds like another winner, where Canada and her citizen’s profit and we take all the risks in polluting our environment. That should help the Bankers and Wall St. make more profits as well. I guess I am just an old style patriot who still thinks there are still many things right about our nation, even with all the problems we face! And we are the greatest and strongest Nation in the World. There I go again, taking like a patriot who still loves America and thankful for what, she as a nation, has given me and mine. I guess I am out of sync here, not denouncing our country and not bitching about how terrible we are. After all, we the people are still what make up this great and beautiful country. With all our faults and problems, I would not trade my place with anyone else in any other country. Too bad so many people find what is wrong and have no solution but gripping and belly aching over our problems. It is always easier to complain, then to come up with solutions. I guess if you are unhappy, it relieves tension to complain all the time...K.W.

Kend - I do not think you are a heartless bastard that hates poor kids for using his tax dollars to be fed lunch. I just think you are uninformed of who gets "free lunches" from the schools and why. My information comes second hand, because I believe the information my daughter, who is a third grade teacher in a low income school district relates to me.

1st. Not every child in the school system receives the so called free lunches. The parent or parents of these children must first document their income or lack of income in order to receive lunch assistance for their children. Of course the more cynical of you out there will just shrug it off as a free handout and there is no way to prove anything.

2nd. She is a very perceptive teacher and speaks with her students on a daily basis on how things are going. She hears stories where some of these kids go without breakfast because we ran out of food. Or some of her students will come to school without coats or socks, because their Mom or Dad did not have enough money this month to buy clothes for us, but they will try to get some used clothes this weekend. And please do not reply that is the parent’s fault the children do not have enough to eat or warm clothes to wear. Without being there to see the faces of these children you have no right to comment and condemn. Which appears to be the primary function of most of the asses that comment on this blog?

3rd. The only nourishing meal these poor children get is at school. They get a fruit and a vegetable along with carbs and milk with their lunch at school. You cannot teach hungry kids and expect them to learn. If these children do not learn while in the beginning years of their education, statistics show they have a much lower chance of graduating high school. Don't take my word for it, do some research before you run off at the mouth.

I realize that most of you have not had to make choices on which meals to skimp by on, so you can feed your children dinner before they go to bed. So I right if off as lack of real experience in knowing what truly poor children go through daily in their lives in school and at home. Those of you who state you do not mind if the school provides lunches, but not with your taxes. These children are part of the community and therefore are indirectly part of the whole of society that is in need. In a kind society we do not punish the children for the failures of the parents. And to state your contempt for these parents who "don't feed their kids” have no idea of how much pain the majority of these parents are in when they cannot feed their children properly.

Kend mentioned this is not the 1950's and your damn right it is not the era in which most of us grew up in. The world these children and their parents have to live in is less caring and more concerned in what they have and can hold onto. In the 1950's the community gave a damn about their neighbors in need, today our society is more cynical and selfish than ever before. We like our politicians and corporations are only concerned about what we (they) can get out of it and screw the next person, as long as we get what we want. If you are so concerned that your tax dollars are going to help poor children have one nutritional meal a day and that really upsets you, you, Kend, and anyone who feels that way is a heartless bastard and deserves what karma has waiting for them. Probably a massive coronary at age 65, and then you will not have to worry about your tax dollars helping poor children survive another day to learn as best as they can in this heartless society we now live in. If I said how I feel personally about people who feel this way and what I would like to do to those who would deny those who are the most innocent and the most deserving in our society, I would be arrested for domestic terrorism. In America we give massive tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, have no problem locking people up and feeding them three healthy meals a day in prison, yet somehow resent feeding hungry children lunch, so they will have a full belly while trying to learn. I am very contemptuous of the bastards who take that point of view, but then I have to realize this is America and should not expect much more from our citizens who do not even bother to vote, but will bitch at every opportunity they have and criticize those who are less fortunate. And, as Hartmann has mention countless times, nobody in America has made it on their own, as many who proclaim they are self-made men; it is the society as a whole that has helped them get there. Yet, they have the balls to write off poor children and the help they need to survive. Sickening at best. P.S. Not every parent has the means to send their children off in the morning with a good meal for lunch and should feel damn well blessed if they can....K.W.

I apologize for such a lengthy comment and being off subject on Hartmann’ blog today. I just cannot believe people would actually begrudge poor children a healthy lunch, so they have a chance to learn for the day!

DAnnemarc: Ok, I give up...give me a hint! I'm very obtuse when it comes to understanding the lyrics in music. I can't even stand it when they play music in the background during documentaries. I wish the producers of documentaries would just knock off all those irrelevant, noisy, distractions. The important thing is the spoken words in the documentaries not all that racket. Maybe it isn't irritating to some people but to me, at least, it is very irritating. And it is very difficult, sometimes impossible, to understand what is being said. I wish there was a program..that would filter out all but the spoken word. I have tried to do it using various filters in Audacity and can get some of it out but usually the quality of the spoken words suffers.

And so, trying to listen to most music with words in it is not enjoyable unless I just ignore all the words. The melodies may be very enjoyable but the words are garbled garbage and have no meaning to me.

I have the same problem when trying to listen to idiots babbling all at the same time. Some panel discussions or debates are just frustrating...even Bill Maher....I like to watch..but when they start talking over one another it is just unintelligible and frustrating. I wish they'd put each panelist in a closed, sound-proof booth with a microphone that the moderator can control. That way no one could possibly talk over one another like that.

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ckrob: And, they are easier to steal from. And it is happening all the time..and the banks don't want you to know how unsafe it is to keep money in their banks. Electronic funds transfers made by hackers happen all the time. And although, I have read, the banks are a lot more willing to restore your balances from your checking or savings accounts, if those accounts are not business accounts (they are a lot harder on business accounts), you still have to keep a very close watch and immediately report to the bank anything that you find amiss...or the bank won't help you.

Banking on-line may help you keep more frequent monitoring of your accounts (if you even bother to check it daily) but it also makes it easier for some hacker to get into your accounts. The data transfers to-from the banks from your computer are encrypted and relatively safe but how do you know that your computer has not already been hacked and the hackers installed a key board logger...that logs everything you type...user names, passwords, etc.

You may think you are safe with firewalls and anti-virus programs but not all of these are as secure as others...and not all are configured for optimal security...because a lot of people just don't know enough. They rely entirely on the banks...while they surf the internet and get all kinds of malware on their computers.

Some people don't even keep their computer software updated. And any of these faults on the part of an end user could be used as an excuse by the bank not to restore your funds. If they can prove you have been reckless with your account name and password...they have a case against you.

Palindromedary ~ You shouldn't have to play anything backwards on this concert to get the message I'm talking about. But, if you want to, that's fine.