Word: citizens
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...believe that the Achilles Heel of the current U.S. bank rescue plan is that it gets money into banks, but the capital does not come out the other end in the form of loans to businesses and individuals. Businesses cannot conduct their affairs in the normal course. The average citizen cannot get a home loan or expand his access to credit, even through it is his taxes present and future, which are the source of the bank bailout capital...
...speed, he'll blow a unique chance to chart a new direction. He doesn't need to beg Congress to spend; that's like begging Cookie Monster to eat. He needs to take a stand: No money without reform. That won't just rebuild consumer confidence; it will rebuild citizen confidence too. As the shoe guy said, at a time like this, self-esteem is critical...
...also one of the first major efforts of the nascent Obama Administration to harness the power of the Internet to increase citizen participation. During the campaign, Obama's team vowed to create a "Craigslist for service" along the lines of the Obama campaign's social-networking site, MyBarackObama.com. "We believe that real change can only come from the bottom up," Obama said in late 2007 on a visit to Silicon Valley. "And technology empowers people to come together to make that change." Indeed, rather than centrally control the flow of information, USAService.org has opened itself up to users to post...
...Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative, and the danger that they might taint Hillary Clinton's role as Secretary of State. The foundation, according to its public disclosure documents, aims to promote "the values of fairness and opportunity for all" as well as "health security, economic empowerment, leadership development, citizen service, and racial, ethnic and religious reconciliation." Clinton described her husband's Global Initiative, part of his foundation, as a "pass-through" that funnels money from wealthy donors to development and aid projects around the world, whose work includes providing AIDS drugs and poverty and hunger relief. (See pictures...
...year by as much as 12%, but an Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership study of high-foreclosure areas found that the owners of those properties would have had to pay an extra $70 million in taxes because of overvalued but official appraisals. In states from New York to Arizona, angry citizen groups are lobbying their state legislatures - which are already facing budget shortfalls - to address the discrepancies...