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03/02/2010 12:58:21
 
 
To
01/02/2010 17:01:38
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
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Finances
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Miscellaneous
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Message ID:
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> Regulators will never coherently explain why AIG could not be allowed to go bankrupt in September of 2008.
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>LOL
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>If you want something to really worry about, try this: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-this-corruption-in-washington-is-smothering-americas-future-1882349.html

I've previously commented on how correct the Supreme Court was in restoring a missing piece of our 1st amendment to the electoral process. Money has always infested politics and the "reform" laws of the past have directly contributed to that influence residing nearly exclusively in the hands of big-monied interests for the direct benefit of incumbents. The striking down of these unconstitutional regulations now allows citizen groups, small businesses and other small-monied interests back into the game by removing the hoop jumping obstacles (PACs, 527s) which limited the game to the big players.

So long as politicians continue to increase their power to regulate and control citizens and their money the more monied interests will seek to buy those politicians for their own selfish interests. If we want to lesson money's influence on politics we must first lessen political power. Less power equals less monied interests paying for access to to that power. That's campaign reform that will actually work.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water - Galileo Galilei
Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil - Louis Pasteur
Water separates the people of the world; wine unites them - anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world - Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance - Benjamin Franklin
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