About the Issues

This is the best explanation of what's wrong with our country I have ever seen, and the best delivery of the information I can imagine:

5-17-2012 - Bernie Sanders on The Ed Show: "The Truth Is Wall Street Regulates Congress"

5-16-2012 - A 1%er Tells Truth About Why THEY Aren't "Job Creators," the 99% Is: The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You

5-13-2012 - NY Times' Paul Krugman: Why We Regulate

5-10-2012 - Rolling Stone Magazine's Matt Taibbi tells it like it is:
How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform with a Big Assist from Congress and the White House

4-16-2012 - Exhibit A that proves our government is bought:

April 16, 2012-- On the same day that a new CNN poll shows that 72% of Americans support  the "Buffett Rule," which would require people earning $1 million a year or more to pay at least 30% in taxes (the same rate working people pay), the "Buffett Rule" fails in the U.S. Senate when 51 Senators vote to proceed with a vote on the measure, and 49 vote against, but because of a(nother) Republican filibuster, 60 votes were needed to get the vote to the Senate floor.

Keeping taxes low on the rich who finance elections and pay for lobbyists trumps the will of a vast majority of the people.  Sooooo NOT supposed to be the American Way.

1-12-2012 - Bill Moyers talks to President Reagan's former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington:
How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis