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coolate

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Many other countries have banned its use. We should too. Look it up for your self, there is a high risk to health that it causes. General info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A

If not banned it should at least require a label, so it can be avoided.
Right now any company can patent and control the use of any plant or genetics of that plant. This should be limited or not allowed for plants that are pre existing. Especially plants that can be used for food, and have pre-existed before the company was around. Discovering, documenting, or genetically mapping a variety should not mean a company owns the rights to that plant. Patenting a plant variety is ok so long as they can show or prove they have genitally modified it or done there own cross pollenating to create the variety. Harloom varieties should be considered "open-source" standards that EVERYONE can work with, and use freely. This should also extend to protect farmers who grow there own harlooms and have gotten patented genetics into there crops via cross pollination from the wind. Right now many farmers are being sued by agra business for using there genetic stock, even though it can not be helped due to the wind spreading the pollen.
Make a grant available to cover UP to 50% of the cost to instal solar panels on businesses or individuals homes. It would be fairly simple, but require panels to be made in the USA, and possibly only cover cost of panels themselves to limit price fluffing on instillation costs.
Put a cap in place to keep the big banks from taking advantage of those with poor credit. Predatory lending needs to be regulated. RIght now any state that wants to remove all the regulation on interest caps can, and no matter what your state has in place to protect you, you can be charged that rate. People should not have to pay 30% APR, thats loan sharking.
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coolate 9 months ago
Maybe for bad english? ;) jk
coolate 9 months ago
I assume the comment to drill is sarcastic. Nuclear requires even more subsides then solar does, and requires long term financial commitment in storage and protection of the waste, even if it is all in one Mt. Also there is high cost in building. Read this for some info: http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter9.html Also look into other amounts the govt. has budgeted to take care of the waste.
Drilling would not help much ether, especially for the long run. Best estimates say it would give us 5-7 years more oil. Not a long term solution. Not to mention damage to the land or environment.
Regarding the federal programs comment, the government is all ready paying for to many things that are dead ends, like AIG. It needs to invest in the future with things like this. Germany did this, and made the money back in revenue from all the new business that was created.
coolate 9 months ago
We can at least do this. http://opengov.ideascale.com/akira/dtd/7181-4049
coolate 9 months ago
Cathy you are a bit unrealistic, credit cards are allowed to lure millions of Americans in with a 9% APR then if you make a late payment start charging 30%APR. Your right no one is making them use them, but you are also are thinking of this form a privileged point of view. Many are too poor to have health insurence and if someone in there family has a medical emergency they might have to use credit to get by. What if you lost your job, like many other have now, and can not afford to feed your family between jobs? In some states(Indiana for example) the unemployment money has run out and is not being paid out to all. Is it so much to ask to put a 25% cap on interest? Is that not to greedy? Are you in favor of removing other loan sharking laws? Why should big business be allowed to take advantage of people, yet you blame Obama for the greed of big business. I think its funny that you blame others and claim that in 6 months he killed the economy. Corporate greed killed the economy. Look at GM, a company that has 1.5 million car sales a year, but is losing billions because they thought they had to keep growing? At any rate this is an unrelated discussion and I feel you are using the comment section as a place to post other ideas. No one said a word about buying things, please start your own post about that, and we can discuss it further.