Proposal:
Enact legislation enabling (not requiring) lenders and state and local laws to allow and keep the current occupants in homes that are go through foreclosure. Foreclosure does not stop. The mortgage is exchanged for a Homesteaders Agreement between the Lender and the Occupant

Who Stays:
Current Occupants

Researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health are calling into question some accepted science data about red light cameras and safety. In the view of lead author Barbara Langland-Orban, professor and chair of health policy and management at USF College of Public Health, “The rigorous studies clearly show red light cameras don’t work.”

“Instead they increase crashes and injuries as drivers attempt to abruptly stop at camera intersections. If used in Florida cameras could potentially create even worse outcomes die to the states high percent of elderly who are more likely to be injured or killed when a crash occurs.” This was reported in Science Daily(mar 12,2008)

The logic behind cameras at red lights is of course, to try to get people to obey the law for fear of getting a ticket in the mail. The reality, the research suggests, is less clear due to “research design flaws” like incomplete data and perhaps more importantly and more pertinent to this post the connection with funding from the insurance industry.

Now what would the insurance industry have to do with this research and why would they “slant” the evidence in a way that would in any way increase accidents? Well, while even the most jaded amongst us might not be able to believe that an industry that has been proven capable of denying rightful compensation to its insured( no, no liver for you) and has been accused of having systematic “McKinsey documents” for systematically denying compensation to victims in car crashes, it seems hard to believe they would want to cause more car crashes. Hard but not impossible.

But you don’t have to believe that “crazy” idea to believe that the insurance companies have some financial interest to gain from the cameras at red lights. Does your insurance go up if you get a citation?

And where the money interests drive the study of science and not the hunger for knowledge the outcome of that science must be questioned.

It is thought by some that these cameras may case more accidents when motorist stop when they should not in an attempt to NOT get a citation and in doing so cause an accident. In the interest of public safety more studies must be done on this before these camera become more widespread. The studies should be done by independent sources and the insurance company should not profit from any new citations from these cameras until this is resolved.

For the insurance company to make money from a creation of their own with dubious health benefits would be, dare I say it, hypocritical.

In an act of HYPOCRISY Planned Parenthood, which receives hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year, decided to waste a pile by delivering CONDOM-GRAMS to STATE legislators reminding them to be carefully with sex and the budget. There would be no argument if the symbolism was to remind legislators to stop screwing taxpayers.

Super delegates constitute super hypocrisy.

But the Supreme Court has upheld any political parties right to choose their candidate however they want.

IT DOES NOT NEED TO EVEN RESEMBLE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPALS.

So the Republicans have one set of rules for the selection process and the Democrats have another. And the “Party” bosses are indeed the bosses. The processes are fraught with historical baggage including a lot of ways to try to keep the “voter” from making a mistake.

This link bares this in a way I am sure very few really understand, especially those who think their vote counts as much as any other. Bill Clinton has two votes, one counts for next to nothing like any individual vote in a pure democracy with a large population of voters. But the other, additional vote counts as 1 of 800 appointed voters of the just over 2000 required votes to get the Democratic Nomination. Together these 800 or so appointed voters are about 40% of the total required voters. The individual voters like you and I, altogether only count for about 60% of the votes.

FutureGen lost the support of the Bush administration last week because the estimated price tag had doubled to 1.8 Billion. FutureGen is the Energy Department effort with a dozen or so private utility companies from around the the world to develop a prototype plant to burn “clean coal.” Since all non government contributions were set at 400 Million all of the increase would be born directly by the government.

Florida will pay for it’s performance in past presidential elections by being banned from 2008. Democratic candidates are vacationing in Florida but refuse to campaigning there.

Everyone seems to have a plan and non of them are having great impact on the housing problems. That’s mostly because the most intractable part of the problem is that too many houses are overvalued, driven by fog a mirror housing finance that purshed demand for homes beyond the natural real need curve to a speculative demand dynamic and that will not be changed a lot by any plan out there, except possibly this “Homesteaders Act of 2008″

1. Change the whole deal and keep all current occupants in the house with a troubled mortgage as follows:
   1. Before foreclosure modify the mortgage deal to a profit sharing deal “Homesteading Act of 2008) with the owner occupant by lowering rate so all housing finance cost are less that 33% of gross income.
   2. Foreclose ASAP on non occpant owners and offer financing to the renting occupant as to the
2. Laws need to be changed to facilite this and formulas for profit sharing must be determined.

IMMEDIATELY send this or talk about it with you political prepresentatives, I have seen NONE talking about this human solution.

Send it to your press outlets and watch them ignor it.

Jesse Jackson has added former Chicago Democrat Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton’s last-minute amnesty spree. Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer. This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate…won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate…then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate. His new job? Ready for this? YOUTH COUNSELOR!! — as seen on Snopes.com

Boston’s Big Dig was such a long (almost 50-years) complex and costly highway project t ($15 billion) has been likened to performing open heart surgery on a patient while the patient is wide awake and it will end – finally — with 2007. It was originally budgeted at $2.6 billion. The Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project  – as the Big Dig is officially known– has its roots in the construction of the hulking 1950’s era elevated Central Artery that cut a swath through the center of Boston, lopping off the waterfront from downtown and casting a shadow over some of the city’s oldest neighborhoods. 5,000 workers labored daily on the project, four died in accidents, and thousands retired having NEVER working on anything else. It cost a mind numbing $365,000 per foot.