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[Steve]

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The number of people who don't have bank accounts is on the rise, as many Americans turn to alternative ways of getting cash -- like payday loans, pawnshops and check-cashing services.

 

About 8.2% of U.S. households, or nearly 10 million, lack a bank account, according to a report released Wednesday by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. That's up from 7.7%, or about 9 million households, in 2009."

 

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What's the reason for this?

 

My guess is that many people can't get a bank account due to having a bounced check, the fees ran up and their account closed. I forgot the organization but one of my brothers is in banking and its fairly common these days. People living paycheck to paycheck. Also, so many people owe the IRS money that they dare not put the money in a bank for fear of garnishment. I would also assume a lot of work being done under the table. Cash businesses. Used to be construction that was like that and in states with a high number of illegals cash is common. Or if a check they can't deposit it so they go to check cashing which honors a Mexican ID. Bank of America and other major banks in California offer banking with a Mexican ID but illegals don't like putting money into any U.S. institution where at anytime its possible its confiscated.

[Steve]

Get that big government ID ready.

 

"* Fraud by individual voters is both irrational and extremely rare.

* Many vivid anecdotes of purported voter fraud have been proven false or do not demonstrate fraud.

* Voter fraud is often conflated with other forms of election misconduct.

* Raising the unsubstantiated specter of mass voter fraud suits a particular policy agenda.

* Claims of voter fraud should be carefully tested before they become the basis for action.

 

Fraud by individual voters is both irrational and extremely rare. Most citizens who take the time to vote offer their legitimate signatures and sworn oaths with the gravitas that this hard-won civic right deserves. Even for the few who view voting merely as a means to an end, however, voter fraud is a singularly foolish way to attempt to win an election. Each act of voter fraud risks five years in prison and a $10,000 fine - but yields at most one incremental vote. The single vote is simply not worth the price.

 

The . . . closely-analyzed 2004 election in Ohio revealed a voter fraud rate of 0.00004%. National Weather Service data shows that Americans are struck and killed by lightning about as often."

 

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The cold hard truth of the matter its done to reduce the number of voters, specifically traditional Democratic voters, Blacks, Latinos, the poor of all stripes. Disgusting. In a day and an age when we should be encouraging people to vote, this is disgusting. I would love to see over 90% of eligibility voters vote. Even if it means my person didn't win. I may be naive but I think the people will eventually get it right as they become more enformed.

 

This is also disgusting.

 

http://www.policymic.com/articles/14389/republican-use-dirty-tricks-crack-down-on-ron-paul-and-gary-johnson-in-state-courts

 

Republican Use Dirty Tricks, Crack Down on Ron Paul and Gary Johnson in State Courts

 

The Republican Party is running scared. Either that or they think the country is better served by restricting voter choice to only those candidates they want to appear on the ballot. Could this be the same party that is supposed to totally support the Constitution and personal freedoms?

 

In Iowa, the Republican Secretary of State is attempting to remove Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson from the presidential ballot because leaving Johnson on the ballot “will cause “irreparable harm to other candidates and political parties who must compete against him.†In Virginia, Gary Johnson was successful in fighting a GOP attempt to remove him from the ballot.

 

In Oklahoma, the Republican Attorney General is attempting to remove Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party candidate for President from the ballot tying him to Americans Elect. Meanwhile, in Michigan, Johnson has to sue the Republican Secretary of State because she says he missed the filing deadline by three minutes.

 

In Pennsylvania, the state Republican Party is challenging validity of signatures even though more than double the required number were turned in. As for Ohio, the GOP is suing to remove Libertarian Gary Johnson from the presidential ballot.

 

Washington State's turn-a-bout is fair play. The Libertarian Party is suing the GOP that is a minority party under state law, and therefore the party’s presidential candidate does not qualify for the ballot.

 

In Nevada, the GOP is worried about “None of the Above†because the state Republican Party “fears “none†could siphon votes from the Republican candidates.†“None of the Above†has appeared as a choice on all Nevada ballots since 1976 as a mean for Nevadans to express dissatisfaction with the choice of candidates. “None†cannot be declared the winner even if it receives the highest number of votes.

 

Why is the Republican Party doing this? Do they believe they fielded weak candidates who cannot stand on their own in close races? Do they not truly believe in freedom of choice and want to restrict, through any means necessary, voter choice? Have they forgotten what freedom really means? Or maybe they’ve gone off the deep end and don’t know how to get back on solid ground

 

In ever election there are some lies, half truths, mistruths and naughty business with the facts. I expect as much from BOTH sides. I take it with a grain of salt but my line is when a party knowingly inhibits a person's right to vote and/or the choices we have. I used to vote Republican on occasion, depending on the candidate. I can't support that party in anything anymore. They've become odious. They have shifted so far right, they're more right wing that Gordie Howe.

 

The irony of the party that likes to define Americanism, is by the far the most 'unamerican' of the two parties. There are lots of things not to like about the Democratic party but Republicans are making them look almost saint like.

[unit731]

My guess is that many people can't get a bank account due to having a bounced check, the fees ran up and their account closed. I forgot the organization but one of my brothers is in banking and its fairly common these days. People living paycheck to paycheck. Also, so many people owe the IRS money that they dare not put the money in a bank for fear of garnishment. I would also assume a lot of work being done under the table. Cash businesses. Used to be construction that was like that and in states with a high number of illegals cash is common. Or if a check they can't deposit it so they go to check cashing which honors a Mexican ID. Bank of America and other major banks in California offer banking with a Mexican ID but illegals don't like putting money into any U.S. institution where at anytime its possible its confiscated.

 

 

Certainly, illegals wish not to open any bank account as a Social Security number is required.

Illegals are a segment.

 

But I wonder about the others.

Others may owe money to credit card companies while others owe money to doctors, labs, and hospitals. No health insurance.

 

There are over 600,000 homeless in USA. Those folks, without an address, may not have a bank account.

[unit731]

"About 145,000 veterans have spent at least one night in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program. Although homeless veterans represent a relatively small share of the total veteran population, an impoverished veteran has a 1-in-9 chance of becoming homeless."

 

 

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[unit731]

"In a must-read piece today, the Washington Post’s Jason Horowitz reports that Mitt Romney was a prep school meanie. The story, which Horowitz got independently from five of Romney’s former classmates, is that after spring break in 1965, Romney came back to Cranbrook, his all-male private school in Michigan, and noticed that John Lauber, a new student a year younger than him, was wearing his hair bleached blond and hanging down over one eye. Lauber generally got teased for looking different and seeming gay, though he was not out. Romney’s friend at the time, Matthew Friedemann, recalls that Romney said of Lauber, “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!†Romney kept complaining, and a few days later led a “prep school posse†that “came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground.â€

 

 

Here’s the clincher: “As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.â€

 

 

Remembering the incident, one witness told the Post, “to this day it troubles me.†Another called it “vicious.†Friedemann said he feels badly he didn’t try to stop it. A fourth witness ran into Lauber at an airport bar three decades later and apologized to him. He says Lauber responded, “It was horrible,†and “It’s something I’ve thought about a lot since then.†Lauber, who was later expelled from Cranbrook for smoking a cigarette, eventually came out and lived a “vagabond†life, according to Horowitz, who spoke with Lauber’s sisters. He died in 2004."

 

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Gotta love those bullies. It's all in good fun. Pick on the kid that looks a little different.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Terry Jones is right back

stirring up some more shit.

 

I guess he makes Willards day.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Willard claims the Middle East is unsafe because of Obama.

 

I guess he wants to go over there and kick

Iran's arse first and then kick all the other arses.

 

Even GWB didn't think that big.

[Hugh_Hoy]

Any article on Barry being a junkie while in high school/college?

 

HH

[cavanami]

Ever since the end of WWII, there has always been war/conflict on a global scale.

 

When the question was asked at the end of WWII, what will they do with all the weapons on Guam (etc), it was sai that they would next be used in Korea! and so they were.

 

These international banker/bastards intend to keep conflicts going as it is good business for them!!! history proves this out, sorry to say.

[Flashermac]

Any article on Barry being a junkie while in high school/college?

 

HH

 

 

Obama: 'Dreams From My Father' Excerpt

 

 

Barack Obama is certainly not the first presidential candidate to concede he inhaled marijuana, but he is the first to admit using cocaine.

 

The Democratic senator from Illinois experimented with drugs during his high school years in Hawaii in the '70s and as a college student at Occidental College and Columbia University. He also experienced the drug war firsthand when a friend of his was busted for weed. How will this influence Obama's platform on illegal drugs?

 

Obama wrote about these experiences in his first book, Dreams from My Father, in 1995. Here's an excerpt from the book:

 

"I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though - Mickey, my potential initiator, had been just a little too eager for me to go through with that. Said he could do it blindfolded, but he was shaking like a faulty engine when he said it...

 

"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed; the final fatal role of the would-be black man. Except the highs hadn't been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was. Not by then, anyway. I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind. Something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory.

 

"I had discovered that it didn't make any difference whether you smoked reefer in a white classmate's sparkling new van, or in the dorm room of some brother you'd met down at the gym, or on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids... You just might be bored or alone. Everybody was welcome into the club of disaffection.

 

"And if the high didn't solve whatever it was that was getting you down, it could at least help you laugh at the world's ongoing folly and see through all the hypocrisy and bullshit and cheap moralism. That's how it seemed to me then, anyway."

 

He then relates the story of Pablo, who didn't have "his driver's licence that day [when] a cop with nothing better to do check[ed] the trunk of his car... One day [my mother] marched into my room wanting to know the details of Pablo's arrest. I told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything that stupid.

 

"'Don't you think you're being a little casual about your future?' she said. 'One of your friends just got arrested for drug possession. Your grades are slipping..."

 

"I didn't want to hear about this..."

 

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