Billionaire Arrested for Insider Trading

This is what Wall St. has become: a giant money grubbing machine. "Greed is good" is the message. How life imitates art. And the near stock market collapse hasn't changed a damn thing. And the of us are just spectators to this disgusting game. And those in charge of stopping this activity are in bed with the same corrupt enterprise.

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"Hedge fund tycoon Raj Rajaratnam is one of six charged with running a scheme that netted at least $20 million in illicit gains."
- Billionaire Arrested for Insider Trading - Forbes.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

Power Company Switches Off Cancer Patient's Oxygen Machine

This shouldn't be happening in America. But those who oppose health care reform don't care about people like Mable Randon.

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"Mable Randon is suffering from the late stages of cancer. She's bound by a wheel chair and only breathing with the help of an electrically-powered oxygen machine. Rucks Russell of KHOU in Houston reports that the local power company sent her a disconnection notice because of late bills. She applied to the Critical Customer Program, a payment plan seemingly tailor-made for people in Randon's condition who depend on electric life support -- but she was denied."
- Power Company Trying To Switch Off Cancer Patient's Oxygen Machine (view on Google Sidewiki)

US Pays $400 Per Gallon For Gas In Afghanistan: Pentagon

Doesn't sound like a good deal.

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"The Pentagon pays an average of $400 to put a gallon of fuel into a combat vehicle or aircraft in Afghanistan."
- US Pays $400 Per Gallon For Gas In Afghanistan: Pentagon (view on Google Sidewiki)

The U.S.’s 2009 budget gap widened to $1.42 trillion

You cannot run deficits when you are a debtor nation. That is unsustainable. That means that we depend on the generosity of the Communist Chinese, or we print money. All that does is create inflation. We are on the verge of financial catastrophe - still.

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"The U.S.’s 2009 budget gap widened to $1.42 trillion as
the deepest recession since the 1930s crippled tax revenue and
the administration increased spending to rescue the economy.
The shortfall for the 12 months ended Sept. 30 was more than
triple the $455 billion record set a year earlier, the Treasury
Department said today in Washington."
- Geithner Says U.S. Must Instill Confidence in Fiscal Management - Bloomberg.com (view on Google Sidewiki)

DC woman to be sentenced for killing 4 daughters

Once again the system failed the most innocent in our society. How do 4 children go missing for months and no one notice? There has to be a way of accounting for all children in our society. This should include regular required physical and psychological testing for all youth.

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"A D.C. woman convicted of killing her four daughters and living with their decomposing bodies for months returns to court Friday to be sentenced."
- DC woman to be sentenced for killing 4 daughters (view on Google Sidewiki)