Manns Medium

America wonders why politicians do not hear them when they speak except when it’s close to election time, but Occupy Wall Street and its off-shoots all over the world is beginning to change that. When Occupy Wall Street protestors decided to collect signatures of individuals willing to close out their accounts with Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, the banks finally decided to honor their customers by putting them before profit when they cancelled the proposal to raise surcharges.   The main argument about falling profits is the same for big business as it is for government. Every time there appears to be a need to reduce spending, government looks immediately at the salaries or income of those in the middle class and if you listen closely to their talking points, they will say that the biggest expense is payroll.   Government also looks to cut programs that serve the middle class and poorest among us.   Now here comes big business doing the exact same thin...

Was watching the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and saw a piece of the interview which was shown on the Today Show with Charlie Sheen.   At first I was truly not interested in hearing some spoiled Hollywood multi-millionaire whine about how everyone was being mean to him but because it was Lawrence O’Donnell bringing it up, I listened.   I must now admit that the way Lawrence portrayed the story was nothing like the message that I got from watching that piece of it.   I saw much more than that. What I saw was a man, who was more determined than I had ever seen, speaks about something that I had never thought about before.   He spoke out about Alcoholic Anonymous (AA) and how less than impressive they were at making him better.   He had decided to stop wasting his time in an organization where he did not get better by following the rules created by someone else.   He decided to tackle this problem on his own and rely only on those who to believe that bef...