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Lately, discussion over health care debates and outrageous wall street bonuses dominate car radio and newspaper headlines, as such was the case Saturday morning on our way to Windham. I forget the particular company, but it's staff bonuses given this year were in the billions, numbers that I truly cannot comprehend. I kept saying to my father, rather ignorantly, that there must be some justification given for allocating such outrageous sums of money. That brought my dad to a story he heard a couple mornings before, about the case of a prison in southern Florida. Apparently, this particular prison is extremely overcrowded and thus came up with a plan that allowed inmates awaiting trial who could not afford bail in the meantime to, instead of remaining in jail and becoming damaged in the intervening period, qualify for house arrest and be monitored via electronic device. This has been in effect for at least a year, proving highly successful. Successful not, however, for the bondsmen whose business was beginning to deteriorate. So, what else to do but pay lobbyists to pay off the gov't to retract this system and force all inmates back to jail? The system has been dismantled and it is back to business as usual for the bondsmen. The point is that the corrupt nature of this country will make it impossible for health care to ever be passed, as insurance companies would be destroyed and they'll do anything in their (financial) power to prevent this from happening. Same goes to investment bankers receiving billions in bonuses, challenge this set-up and they're done. And, they're paying off government officials in the meantime. Who's to trust? Wouldn't want to hurt them, would we? --->
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