February 25th
It's Time to Redistribute the Wealth and
Reclaim Our Unalienable Rights
"p2p4USA"
Meeting # 3,157 - Rob Burns says that it is "Time to redistribute the wealth and reclaim our unalienable rights. Path to Prosperity for US All (p2p4USA) is an initiative to strengthen ourconstitutional republic and greatly improve our economy by increasing therewards for hard work and ingenuity and drastically diminishing the rewards for rent-seeking, swindle, racketeering, and other get rich schemes (http://path2prosperity4all.us/). Primarily, p2p4USA accomplishes this by democratizing all corporate workplaces and ensuring all revenues from natural resources and monopoly resources accrue only to public treasuries: reducing both exploitation in production and taxation ofcommerce. Rob Burns is a former Green Party candidate for US House from Illinois and PhD. student of political economy.
February 4th
Plant Chicago: Farming for the Future
A Net-Zero Energy Vertical Farm
Meeting # 3,153 - John Edel, Director - "Plant Chicago is a nonprofit dedicated to promoting sustainable food production, entrepreneurship, and building reuse through education, research and development. To this end, Plant Chicago is repurposing a 93,500 sq. ft. retired meatpacking facility, The Plant, into a net-zero energy vertical farm. A complex and highly interrelated system, one-third of The Plant will hold aquaponic growing systems and the other two-thirds will incubate sustainable food businesses by offering low rent, low energy costs, and a licensed shared kitchen. The Plant will create 125 jobs in Chicago’s economically distressed Back of the Yards neighborhood – but, remarkably, these jobs will require no fossil fuel use. Instead, The Plant will divert over 6,500 tons of food waste from landfills each year to meet all of its heat and power needs."
February 11th
An Evening of Solutions
Meeting # 3,154 - Lindson P. Anderson will present an entire evening of beneficial solutions to the problems facing middle-class Americans and their children as the United States heads toward the national election of 2012. We Will focus specifically on simple, easy to understand solutions to the problems facing children, relating to the pharmaceutical, chemical, educational and military industries. If you're tired of hearing people complain about problems, come hear an evening of solutions that could save trillions of dollars per year for the American middle class. All new state of the art materials for 2012!
February 18th
Debate: Obamacare, Medicare, and Social Security. Time for a Change. Time for Solutions.
Meeting # 3,156 -
Will Barnes says "Obamacare will bankrupt the nation, and both Medicare and Social Security are going broke. We the people must tell our Representatives what changes that need to be made and give them specific solutions to these urgent and pressing issues"
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Anne Scheetz, MD, organizer, Physicians for a National Health Program, Illinois Single-Payer Coalition, in a Letter to the Editor, Chicago Tribune, says "Private insurance companies may, on paper, pay physicians substantially more than Medicare, but this must be taken in the context that Medicare actually pays the rates it publishes and pays on time, while private insurance companies subject physicians to a maze of voluntary and involuntary discounts, denials, delays and underpayments that make calculation of what physicians actually get impossible."
