When the internet was young, it had the essential characteristics of a "free market", i.e. numerous, fragmented users and suppliers. Now, large corporations have captured and consolidated key market segments, allowing them to set up "our way or the highway" market conditions which mainly benefit their shareholders. These quasi-monopolists can lobby our legislators and co-opt govt. regulators. Households and small enterprises remain disorganized and fragmented, thus lacking collective bargaining power needed to assert their collective interests.
The preceding day the Israelis arrested Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna for protesting the seizure of a Christian hospital which is part of al-Baraka Presbyterian church complex, north of Hebron. (Per Independent Catholic News - ICN)
Tea Party rebels who met at the Tortilla Coast violated their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution of the US, under specific terms of Amendment 14: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law..... shall not be questioned."
A majority of the Senate should pass an “emergency powers” resolution, petitioning the President to defend the validity of the public debt by borrowing sufficient funds to pay all legal obligations as they become due and payable. Although this Senate resolution would not be a law, it would be a clear signal that the majority of the Senate will support the President, if the debt ceiling has to be violated by the Executive Branch to safeguard the validity of the public debt.
The Tea Party rebels might attempt to impeach the President, but the majority in the Senate would have signaled that temporary “emergency powers” were warranted.
When the internet was young, it had the essential characteristics of a "free market", i.e. numerous, fragmented users and suppliers. Now, large corporations have captured and consolidated key market segments, allowing them to set up "our way or the highway" market conditions which mainly benefit their shareholders. These quasi-monopolists can lobby our legislators and co-opt govt. regulators. Households and small enterprises remain disorganized and fragmented, thus lacking collective bargaining power needed to assert their collective interests.
At $4,750 per capita, it would cost the US about $228Bn to grant the same amount to Americans living in poverty!
The preceding day the Israelis arrested Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna for protesting the seizure of a Christian hospital which is part of al-Baraka Presbyterian church complex, north of Hebron. (Per Independent Catholic News - ICN)
Tea Party rebels who met at the Tortilla Coast violated their oaths to protect and defend the Constitution of the US, under specific terms of Amendment 14: "The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law..... shall not be questioned."
A majority of the Senate should pass an “emergency powers” resolution, petitioning the President to defend the validity of the public debt by borrowing sufficient funds to pay all legal obligations as they become due and payable. Although this Senate resolution would not be a law, it would be a clear signal that the majority of the Senate will support the President, if the debt ceiling has to be violated by the Executive Branch to safeguard the validity of the public debt.
The Tea Party rebels might attempt to impeach the President, but the majority in the Senate would have signaled that temporary “emergency powers” were warranted.