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Occupy Wall Street

Proposed Agenda For Occupy Wall Street #4: Prevent Another Financial Collapse By Breaking Up Big Banks

December 10, 2011

Strings were never tied to TARP, and as a result Wall Street and the financial institutions have learned zip from their wanton, careless and risky behavior pre-2008.  It is their sheer size that created the nation coming so close to the edge, and if the present problems of the European Union tells us anything is [...]

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Occupy Wall Street Proposed Agenda #3: Term Limits Necessary To Rid System Of Career Politicians

November 23, 2011

The idea of citizen legislator is fundamental to our democracy, but has been slowly circumvented since the early 1980′s.  Many worthy candidates have been dissuaded from running because of the emergence of one issue PAC groups.  The result has been a disproportionate amount of true believers, on both the right and left, with the more [...]

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Proposed Agenda For Occupy Wall Street #2: Lifetime Ban On Elected Officials & Their Staff From Being Employed As Lobbyists

November 21, 2011

The most notorious lobbyist in recent memory Jack Abramoff who had over 100 congressional representatives and senators in his back pocket and wielded power and influence unchecked for so many years has admitted the only sure fire way to limit lobbyist influence is to limit the career choices of elected officials after leaving office–put simply [...]

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First Order of Business For Occupy Wall Street: Passage of H.R. 1148 The Stock Act

November 13, 2011

CBS 60 Minutes tonight exposed the insider trading going on within the sacred halls of Congress.  ReporterSteve Kroft exposed the inside information that many elected officials are privy to and act upon for personal financial benefit.  Although not necessarily illegal by congressional act, acting upon information for personal gain represents at the least a conflict [...]

Tagged as: Congressional Insider Trading, H.R. 1148, Occupy Wall Street Agenda, S.E.C., The Stock Act

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