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From LaVerne Isely

Monroe

If politicians can't greet their constituents without getting shot, then you're going to have to promote and expand things like public radio, where they have guests form both political parties, as well as third-party candidates running for office, where the voter can call-in and ask questions and set it up on a monthly basis. Republicans want to cut funding for public radio on a national level. I don't believe they even like it on a state level.

The politician's message has to get out and the voters have to ask questions if you're going to sustain any sort of satisfaction that the system is running like it's supposed to. We can't sustain cost over-runs that should have been supervised and regulated. We can't have tort reform where we can't sue a corporation that hasn't been living up to their obligations. A lot of these ideas have to be promoted on a national, as well as world-wide level; otherwise, corporations will blackmail us and move to areas with less regulations and standards. I think it's deplorable what took place in our banking industry.

While I promote public radio, I also support the use of social networks through the use of computers and the Internet, which one can access at the local library, unless one has their own. Also, the role that Goggle, Bing, Yahoo and others play in searching for information. If you hear someone's name on TV, you can look it up and research if they have any value in their ideas. Google my name "LaVern Isely" and I've put excepts from a number of books which detailed issues of what took place in the banking crisis. If politicians really wanted to change, they'd regulate in order to have a safer financial system.

The hedge fund dealers were running their businesses so risky that you could consider them criminals, as well as they used the constantly changing derivative market. True, they caught a few, but they still don't want to regulate the market. They tell us that's just the way free enterprise works, which makes the billionaires richer and anymore that couldn't keep up to their "moral hazard" of lies, that the common man should have known better. Sad to say, we're not all college graduates in criminal law but that's why we need lawyers who can sue these various corporations or individuals.