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Email: jimgundlach@bellsouth.net

65 year old vet and first in my family to get a college education. Won 2004 Ig-Nobel Award for Medicine and wistle blower on academic fraud in 2006 at Auburn. Now retired, I let the bastards run me off

Obama replaces Alabama grassroots delegates

Sat Mar 01, 2008 at 06:19:00 PM PDT

Obama alienated some of his strongest grassroots supporters in Alabama last night.  Go down to Delegate Skirmish in the linked article to read the full account.
About forty grassroots Obama delegates, people who paid $50 to run and who were elected by citizens of their districts, were replaced by an Obama representative with wealthier and better known people.  

  More below the fold.

How to reframe Social Security privatization.

Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 06:28:55 PM PDT

One of the concerns about privatizing Social Security is that it provides a means by which the account managers can legally rip off the less finically educated account owners.  One way to bring this to table and change the focus from the "Social Security crisis" to the possible theft by account managers is to insist on a cap on management fees equal to the administrative overhead of Social Security.  My guess is that Wall Street would object so loudly that it would be heard by enough people to reframe the issue.

Note this is my first diary.


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