[Hac-announce] What's Important 2012 Election, April 7 HAC Conversations

[L.M.C. Harvey]

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Conversations   	April 07, 2012







>>   1.  Open with Colbert  ---  PAC influence on the election
process.>Colbert talking about the Super Pac Fun Kit for students







>>  2.   Affordable Health Care Act  ---




>Mar
18, 2012  ---  Hurray for Health Reform, Paul Krugman




….
 The fact is that individual health
insurance, as currently constituted, just doesn’t work. If
insurers are left free to deny coverage at will — as they are in,
say, California — they offer cheap policies to the young and
healthy (and try to yank coverage if you get sick)





>>   n2.  Copyright Protection





>Apr
05, 20:53  ---  Ted Talk,  Clay Shirky: “Why SOPA is a bad
idea.”  Jan 2012/Posted 1/12  ---  Humorous.





>Apr
4, 2012  14:37  ---  TED Talks, 15++ mins.  ---  Organizer of Swedish
Pirate Party Rick Falkvinge.  On the origin of the party, the reason
for ... and organizing for a cause.





>>   3.  Tax Reform  --- 
Flat Tax Proposals




As
the early stages of the 2012 campaign progress, a new question has
come into play: Are the rich really different? Or, more specifically,
should they be treated differently in the U.S. tax code?  ….  The
idea behind a flat tax is simple. The tax code has gotten so
complicated that it needs to be cut back down to size and a "flat
tax" -- where there is one simple rate that everyone pays on
income - is a quick and easy way to do that job.  ….  But
behind all that ease is one big broad question: How exactly do
Americans feel about everyone paying the same percentage of their
income in taxes? 





>>
  4.  The place of compassion in government, law,  business....?



“Intellect
is not enough.”  Compassion,  Saba
Gul lives, breathes and dreams female empowerment and finding
business solutions to poverty. She is the Founder & Executive
Director of BLISS, a social enterprise which offers a solution to the
work versus school dilemma faced by underprivileged girls in
Pakistan. . . . .  Saba is an alumna of MIT, from where she earned
her BS and MS. An engineer by degree, ….




>>>>
 Whither Conversations?   Atheism 2.0  Alain
de Botton suggests a "religion for atheists" -- call it
Atheism 2.0 that incorporates religious forms and traditions to
satisfy our human need for connection, ritual and transcendence.






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