Comments on: CNN’s Ali Velshi Confuses Coal With Soap http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:42:01 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Robert http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/comment-page-1/#comment-10026 Robert Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:26:19 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/#comment-10026 The Solution to the current financial Crisis… Distribute exactly $50,000 each (tax free, less what you might owe the IRS), 100% of our national debt. USA Fed to wire all funds to banks to distribute to legal Social Security cardholders – using eCheck to verify legal SS #’s Put a 3% cap on annual inflation. Everyone must open a savings account of at least $15,000 (and keep it for at least 5 years in the bank of their choice) as a condition of receiving the bonus. Open trust account of $5,000 for children’s education (and/or keep it for at least 5 years). Open trust account of $5,000 for healthcare (and/or keep it for at least 5 years). Use the balance $25,000 for your mortgage; additional savings; etc. I.E. Spend it! Fix the regulations with the financial institutions. Health Care for Everyone! The Solution to the current financial Crisis…

Distribute exactly $50,000 each (tax free, less what you might owe the IRS), 100% of our national debt. USA Fed to wire all funds to banks to distribute to legal Social Security cardholders – using eCheck to verify legal SS #’s

Put a 3% cap on annual inflation.

Everyone must open a savings account of at least $15,000 (and keep it for at least 5 years in the bank of their choice) as a condition of receiving the bonus.

Open trust account of $5,000 for children’s education (and/or keep it for at least 5 years).

Open trust account of $5,000 for healthcare (and/or keep it for at least 5 years).

Use the balance $25,000 for your mortgage; additional savings; etc. I.E. Spend it!

Fix the regulations with the financial institutions.

Health Care for Everyone!

]]> By: Robert http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/comment-page-1/#comment-10020 Robert Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:23:45 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/#comment-10020 Fix the regulations with the financial institutions. Health Care for Everyone! Fire The President & Paulson - and most of the rest of them. We have a Political Bubble! Enforce all U.S. Constitutional & other U.S. laws. Solves the mortgage problem; banks get large deposits; everybody gets health insurance; a new Ford or Chevy; etc... Other countries will be all want to do business with us. This is like a reverse bankruptcy for all of us – especially us citizens. Fix the system by throwing the wall street bums out – refund money ripped-off & send them to jail. Oh-yeh, Send our troops home & fix & defend our borders. The best answer would be to that bailout money to be paid to every legal Social Security cardholder. $700,000,000,000/300,000,000 USA population = $2,333.33 for every man woman & child in the USA. The best answer would be to that bailout money to be paid to every legal Social Security cardholder. Tax rebates won’t work. Other countries investors would flock to the US – just what we need. On short selling…hedges to your retirement funds!!! Less than 50% of all short trades are profitable. All shorts must buy to realize a profit. They provide a market to the buyers! So they balance & stabilize the market! Restore it. Where is ‘The Magnificent Seven’ when we need them? Robert Fix the regulations with the financial institutions.

Health Care for Everyone!

Fire The President & Paulson – and most of the rest of them. We have a Political Bubble!

Enforce all U.S. Constitutional & other U.S. laws.

Solves the mortgage problem; banks get large deposits; everybody gets health insurance; a new Ford or Chevy; etc… Other countries will be all want to do business with us.

This is like a reverse bankruptcy for all of us – especially us citizens.

Fix the system by throwing the wall street bums out – refund money ripped-off & send them to jail. Oh-yeh, Send our troops home & fix & defend our borders.

The best answer would be to that bailout money to be paid to every legal Social Security cardholder.

$700,000,000,000/300,000,000 USA population = $2,333.33 for every man woman & child in the USA. The best answer would be to that bailout money to be paid to every legal Social Security cardholder. Tax rebates won’t work.

Other countries investors would flock to the US – just what we need.

On short selling…hedges to your retirement funds!!! Less than 50% of all short trades are profitable. All shorts must buy to realize a profit. They provide a market to the buyers! So they balance & stabilize the market! Restore it.

Where is ‘The Magnificent Seven’ when we need them?

Robert

]]> By: shirley liebhaber http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/comment-page-1/#comment-2988 shirley liebhaber Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:15:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/#comment-2988 Ali, there's something personal I would like to tell you. I watch you often on CNN and really admire you. sl Ali, there’s something personal I would like to tell you. I watch you often on CNN and really admire you.
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]]> By: tboggia http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 tboggia Wed, 14 May 2008 20:51:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/05/14/velshi-coal-soap/#comment-1048 Dear CNN, Ali Velshi recently asked Americans to e-mail suggestions about what you should cover when it comes to energy. Here are my 2 cents. Instead of covering hyper-subsidized, over-profitting, PR bursting fossil fuel industries (especially 'Clean' coal), you should cover: - Energy Efficiency ("<a href="http://www.sciam.com/media/pdf/Lovinsforweb.pdf" rel="nofollow">preventable energy waste costs Americans hundreds of billions of dollars and the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, destabilizing the climate while producing no value</a>") - Concentrated Solar Thermal (<a href="http://climateprogress.org/2008/04/14/concentrated-solar-thermal-power-a-core-climate-solution/" rel="nofollow">Provides base load power day and night</a>) - Wind power (<a href="http://www.energy.gov/news/6253.htm" rel="nofollow">DOE says wind can be 20% of US power by 2030</a>) Stop giving a voice to industries that are delaying action on climate change and poisoning american communities (watch <a href="http://www.burningthefuture.org" rel="nofollow">Burning the Future</a> on the Sundance Channel on <a href="http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500318591" rel="nofollow">Sunday at 3:35PM</a>) and start focusing on the real solutions. Thank you for your time, Tommaso Nicholas Boggia Climate Change Advocacy Associate Campus Progress, Center for American Progress Dear CNN,

Ali Velshi recently asked Americans to e-mail suggestions about what you should cover when it comes to energy. Here are my 2 cents.

Instead of covering hyper-subsidized, over-profitting, PR bursting fossil fuel industries (especially ‘Clean’ coal), you should cover:

- Energy Efficiency (”preventable energy waste costs Americans hundreds of billions of dollars and the global economy more than $1 trillion a year, destabilizing the climate while producing no value“)

- Concentrated Solar Thermal (Provides base load power day and night)

- Wind power (DOE says wind can be 20% of US power by 2030)

Stop giving a voice to industries that are delaying action on climate change and poisoning american communities (watch Burning the Future on the Sundance Channel on Sunday at 3:35PM) and start focusing on the real solutions.

Thank you for your time,

Tommaso Nicholas Boggia
Climate Change Advocacy Associate
Campus Progress, Center for American Progress

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