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...when someone in the Obama Administration says something like "We want to reform Wall Street pay," what goes through your head? I hope they can actually follow through with it. But here we have folks in Washington - in the Fed, in the Treasury - who are also investment bankers, especially from Goldman Sachs. So it makes me wary. We're all implicated in this...
...laws of the past, including the forced separation of children from their parents. Five months later, the U.S. Congress formally apologized to black Americans for slavery and the later Jim Crow laws, which were not repealed until the 1960s. And most notably, in 1988 the U.S. government decided to pay $20,000 to each of the surviving 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps during World War II. Says Donald Tamaki, a San Francisco-based attorney who helped overturn wrongful WWII-era convictions of Japanese Americans: "Part of what a humane society does is recognize past injustices and address them...
...somebody who has gained monetarily by breaking the law - and is going to continue to victimize taxpayers by being in prison for the rest of his life and getting three square meals a day. There are enough wealthy people who have broken the law and can afford to pay for it. We spend $1 billion a year to incarcerate individuals in New York. We have drug dealers who are probably going to leave after a sentence of 2 to 5 years and go back to millions of dollars they've made illegally. (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...will authorities determine which inmates will be forced to foot the bill for their incarceration? It's on a sliding scale. The highest level is $200,000 and above; [inmates worth that amount] will pay all their stay. If you're worth $40,000 or less, you wouldn't pay anything. You can't get blood from a stone; we're not trying to cause pain...
...switching our whole health-care system away from this "fee-for-service" model would be incredibly complicated, no? That's absolutely not true. There are already great models - Medicare is one. When Medicare pays hospitals, they pay by disease, not by how long people stay there. Consequently hospital stays have dropped dramatically. I would disagree that this is gonna be a tough transition. I think it's going to be a very good transition. If there's a public option, it will force the transition...