those are wells branches. those are chase branches. because those banks stepped in to take over those troubled institutions. those are not so much wells at the moment but we've already said the target is chase which is expanding and adding thousands of jobs in northern california as it takes over a failed banking system and makes it grow, hiring people again. san francisco has a policy of urging through our treasurer, tax collector, of urging san franciscoians to be bank, not to use payday lenders. most recently a week ago with current c.s.f. using employers to use direct deposits for paychecks for their employees. on the one hand the message from san francisco is let's have banks, let's have branches, let's have people use those banks, both employers and residents and employees. but on the other hand, we now have a piece of legislation that can make a noisy minority in any business trip in san francisco make enough noise to turn down a conditional use application to open a competitive branch to another national or international bank.

a lot of african-americans prefer to go into bank branches. other populations don't necessarily choose to do that but i think there are real class implications and i'm not talking about in this legislation specifically as much but something we need to think about across socio-economic spectrum, people who are more trendy might use square and other kinds of -- other formats or ways to pay for their transactions but for other populations of people, having a bank and having access to a bank is an important construct so to the extent that areas have outright bans, they might want to think about whether or not this is something that should be taken into consideration. i also think -- we talked about banks. obviously wells fargo is headquartered here, it is -- it would be interesting to know to talk about in that context of money and how it goes back into the system but again, i do believe that for what we said formula retail was, for size, format and marketing, it makes a lot of sense to put things in that category. i also do believe, though, it is

at the time of the upper big branch tragedy of the lead inspectors that was at upper big branch, i think five out of six of them was hired in this latest class of 2006 forward. if you look back at 2007 and look at the makeup of district four and the agency, 33% of district four in the agency were trainees. >> let me ask one question. my time's almost expired. with a agregregious findings could y have shut the mine down? >> on 48 occasions msha went in that mine in 2009 and shut them down using the full measure of the law they had and the authority under the law which says once you correct a problem, you can put it back to work. and the mine did that. there is no silver bullet. we've asked congress to consider that. we've tried to come up with ways to what a holistic way to deal with the mine that's seen an immediate danger. we used that at the freedom mine in 2010. it took us three months to get there. >> it didn't shut down and a disaster occurred. that is a fact. >> the gentleman's time has expired. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you mr. secretary for being here today. thi

entire system failed the miners set up for big branch. past congresses should have slashed funding for mine inspector. msha needed to do a bet are job with the tool it had and massey exploited msha's weaknesses and those in the law and hurt their workers. the law should have been much stronger, because that is what it takes when an operator has little or no regard for their workers. we are prepared to work with our colleagues to enact meaningful reform so that we can honor mr. longal plea and the lives of our country's miners, because, mr. chairman, the blood spilled by these miners must not be in vain, and it must not be forgotten, and we must protect all miners from the errors that led to the ubb disaster. mr. chairman, in closing, i want to welcome our witnesses that will be here today, and joe main. as well as the others who have a lot invested and are getting this right. i yield back. >> thank you, gentle lady. all can submit written statements to be included in the record. the hearing record remains open 14 days to allow statements,

i would close by saying that each bank branch employs people, 10 to 15 people. these individuals they employ represent or come from a relatively large spectrum of academic achievement. they do well. when banks want to invest in san francisco, grow in san francisco, and employ people in san francisco, that should be encouraged, not discouraged. thank you. vice president wu: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is lydia heron and i'm the manager of public policy with the san francisco chamber of commerce, here today representing the san francisco chamber of commerce and over 1500 businesses and we are in opposition to supervisor mar's proposal because we believe that man dating a one-size-fits-all conditional use permitting process will restrict a number of banks throughout the city's neighborhoods each when a potential branch is desired and supported by a majority of local residents and businesses. we believe bank branches provide essential services to neighborhood merchants and small businesses depend on easy and quick access to banking services.

, the one branch said was a tough guy.out, marcus branch beat up a woman. >> i'm not sure exactly what all happened. it was time for dining hall. i informed the kids it's dime for dining hall. get your coats and shoes on. walked up to shut the tv off. one of the inmates blind-sided me, hit me in the face. next thing i know, i'm picking myself up off the floor about five feet away. >> the spontaneity of incidents like that, and they tend to come from nowhere. i think it goes back to the core of the person and they have no hope. they truly believe with the soul of every fiber of their being is that their future is to end up in an adult facility. >> the average length of stay is one year for teens inside the walls of pendleton juvenile correctional facility. abel has been here for ten months. today is his shot to convince the release committee he's readç to go home. >> we review their packet, and we know that they're essentially eligible to come to the release committee for review, but we don't ever talk about it in advance.

secondly, the way that him principle can be implemented is that the political branches, the branches that are elected, president and congress should have the primary role for figuring out how debt except, implement, and enforce international law in our country, rather than the courts. we think that congress, including the house, should decide win international obligations, international institutions can have a direct effect in the united states. the most democratically accountable branch of government should be involved whenever the federal government asks us as private individuals to change our behavior, legal status and relationships in response to international agreement. i think this makes a lot of sense for a democratic accountability reasons because the most elected branches of the ones that are most accountable and the ones that are most transparent. we think it also makes the most sense for reasons of function, congress and the president control the main resources of the country, in charge of conducting foreign affairs, and it makes the most sense therefore urge the most capa

so the executive branch didn't in fact in because there was no executive branch. of course, we got to philadelphia, they wanted to. the founding generation thought we needed a strong executive, but how strong? that was always the question. the president it must be noted is not a teen. i think sometimes we don't think that. but the founding generation to a man feared executive power over all else. didn't really care about legislative power. they can care about the power of the states. they cared about executive power because they had seen the timing up to the american war of independence, what that executive to do. they also had history on the side and i'll talk about that in a second. a great quote from john dickinson. let me give you a couple of quotes about executive power. it's better to put it in their words instead of mine. the governor of new york at this time was a man named george clinton. no relation to bill and hillary. but he wrote about the constitution what is going through the ratification process, and he used a pen name, cato, he said this. compared

you have two branches of shiloh branch coming to a juncture on the west side of the road. sherman's camps were on the other side of shiloh branch of the for the most part, he did have one regiment in the south on the east branch over here to our immediate east. in ray field. i hope the visitors understand when they stand here and they look at it, that they pick up on some salient point, and the point is you're dealing with three different organizations of the confederate army. three different brigades. you've got patrick clay burn's brigade from hardy's core. you have patten anderson's brigade of brag's core. and you have bush rod johnson's brigade of poke's core. these are the center of the formations. we're dealing with 8:00 basically starting with clayburn, general time frame, through 9:00 and beyond. so we have an hour's point of time when these three brigades come into battle here. first clayburn, then anderson, then johnston. now the thing is, they're all occupying the same space that's only big enough for one brigade, and they're doing it all at the same point in ti

this was two months before upper big branch hit. in february of 2010. some of the things that i had talked about at that time was the fact the day i took this job, 55 percent of the msha inspectors had has two years of experience. 38% of the inspectors had two years experience. one of the things i decided to the was to bring in every one of our field officer soorpzs, set up a training program to train them on how to be a supervisor. we had complaints about sknssy. rightfully so. to figure out a way to get quickly those who managed their whole enforcement program under control. we had that -- we were kicking off the first training right as ubb struck. the second thing is to take a look at how we're training our folks and how we are identifying the auditing. are we doing enough self-its in this agency to find the things like we're talk about. >> i'm sorry, the gentleman's time has expired. mr. tierney. >> thank you. i'll yield my time to the ranking member. >> secretary main, mr. kelly was discussing with you the fact that there were 48 shutdown -- d 2 in

. >> items 7, ordinance adopted environmental findings with respect to the north beach branch library and approving the expenditure of bond proceeds of lease revenue bonds previously authorized and issued to finance projects. item eight, ordinance amending $6,259,742 consisting of $5,770,742 in library preservation fund and appropriate balance and $481,000 in interest earnings from the branch library improvement program general obligation bond proceeds to the public library in fiscal year 2011-2012 for the completion of remaining projects in the branch library improvement program. supervisor chu: thank you very much. before the presentation, i would like to offer a representative from supervisor chiu's offers the opportunity to speak. >> thank you very much. good morning. president chiu's office. i will be brief and let our wonderful city librarian and the budget analyst go over the details of this, but i wanted to emphasize how strongly president chiu supports these items and the appropriation in particular of the north beach library. it really makes completion of the project as clos

try to think about what it takes to run a company that has branches in 100 different countries. and if it's a bank, that there are 50,000 people every day who are making commitments. it would kill you. that's a big management job. that's why they get these high incomes. are there disparities in the thing? are there injustices in the thing? of course. life is full of injustices. but that's not the main point. the main point is that what's happening here is happening everywhere. so it's not a result of the local political decisions, the bush tax cuts or the obama expenditures. i mean, it may have an effect. but the dominant effect is an international effect. it's something that's going on. like the chinese and the indians adding enormous number of people to the labor force. >> okay. okay. could you just say who you are as you ask your question? thanks very much. >> i'm jeff kosnett. i'm a columnist and senior editor at kiplinger washington editors. i took classes from dr. meltzer in 1978. >> i'm sure he remembers you. >> my question is this. you were describing the banks and their

you have two branches of shiloh branch coming to a juncture on the west side of the road. sherman's camps were on the other side. the interesting thing is when you stand here, i hope that visitors really key up on it. because you see three position tablets here at the double bridges here below the church. there was a double bridge in place. you have two branches of shiloh branch coming to a juncture on the west side of the road. sherman's camps were on the other side of shiloh branch of the for the most part, he did have one regiment in the south on the east branch over here to our immediate east in ray field. i hope the visitors understand when they stand here and they look at it, that they pick up on some salient point, and the point is you're dealing with three different organizations of the confederate army. three different brigades. you've got patrick clayburn's brigade from hardy's core. you have patten anderson's brigade of brag's core. and you have bushrod johnson's brigade of polk's corps. these are the center of the formations. we're dealing with 8:00 basically s

so that anchored the left firmly at deal branch ravine which lay here in front of us. so this union last line has a huge ravine just immediately to the south of the left flank portion of it and then on the extreme right is that tillman branch that sherman and mclernan backed up over afternoon. he had these two prominent landscape features to put between the confederate forces and this new defensive perimeter. the hornet's nest capture basically is the climax of the first day's fighting. the majority of confederate forces never advanced beyond that point, but a remnant of the confederate army does. it's bebaitable the size of the force, but it's no more than about 10,000 troops at best. of that, i would say that only about 3500 men actually come under musketry fire in the final confederate attack of the day which will be delivered across deal branch against this section of grant's last line, from the mouth of deal branch westward for about 2/3 of a mile off of the river. so it's pretty much anti-climatic, the last little spurt of energy from the confederate force. grant

that is why they wanted to have the executive branch at all. one of the major defects of the constitution are the articles of confederation. it didn't have that kind of single executive who could respond quickly to a crisis. then after time, either the emergency crisis goes away or becomes more stabilized and there's ample space for congress to act and the courts to get involved. i think we have seen that in the last 10 or 11 years now. >> if the audience is interested in following up on that, they can. i wanted to and with one question that i think we'll will give you a chance to get to the heart of some of your arguments and that is, if the constitution itself provides for a treaty power and a process whereby trees are passed and adopted, and then reserved for the house of representatives the power to fund things and most of these treaties have to be enforced through legislation, why isn't that a sufficient constitutional structure to justify treaty making and globalization through treaty making? >> i quite agree with that actually. if that w

it wasn't just the upper big branch mine. all of these mines operated by massey industry or energy, you could find similar situations. and, in fact, msha has found those same kinds of situations existing, the same dangerous conditions existing, before massey turned these operations over or sold them to alpha natural resources. and i wanted to remind you of the famous -- infamous memo sent out in october of 2005 by don blankenship, sent to all deep mine superintendents, entitled running coal. this is from the man. this is from the top person, this company, and he believed and the minors believed and most people in west virginia believed that he was above the law, he was above the governor, he was above this congress right here. so that you will know, that's how he was perceived in the southern west virginia. if any of you have been asked by your group president, supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything, anything, other than run coal, such as build overcast, which happens to take ventilation to the working sections,

remember every branch of government is supposed to uphold the constitution. supreme court is the unelected branch that does it but everybody's supposed to be paying attention. >> how often do they throw that marbury v. madison thing out there when they're arguing? if somebody argues with them... john if you nomar bury. v. madison but it's what we do. >> jon: if you had that power i think you'd bring it out as well. >> jon: i would always interpret laws. >> if there was a law you didn't think was constitutional and you could get rid of it it would be a great thing. so it takes a fair amount of humility to be a supreme courtus because otherwise you can get out of control. >> jon: that's interesting. because they are... have you seen any of them get out of control? have you been to a party where a guy pulls you out aside and goes "i am all powerful. i can strike down laws with..." you know, especially kennedy who's the swing justice he's got to be feeling it these days. >> justice kennedy is... >> jon: that's what i meant justice kennedy. what did i say? >> "tha

legislative branch has pretty much ceded power to the executive branch to declare war. only five in history. last one? world were to. the other ones bailey better not are not worse because congress has not been declared but yet they are funded. the judicial branch has judicial review. this anything give them this power word to determine matters of constitutionality? nowhere to be seen. who threw down the gauntlet basic the got what about that blacks -- ? thomas jefferson. i was very fascinated by the article that indicated our constitution was the template for so long. it has fallen dramatically out of favor. looking at other constitutions around the world, one just approved april 2009 says the state shall guarantee of assistance rights and freedoms and have the and material and cultural lives. if a constitution can guarantee that common maybe that is why we're read fall out of favor. k. neve think we're the statement came from? >> this day's show substantially guarantee all citizens freedoms and rights and have the and material and cultural lives. egypt? >> north korea

it becomes a creature of the executive branch. it is sort of shielded from the demands for transparency, and it's fundamentally changes the equation and the relationship between the three branches of government. >> host: former secretary of state for ohio is ken blackwell. your co-author is ken krokowsky. who is he? >> guest: he is a bright young constitutional attorney, a constitutional scholar. he and i worked tote at the american civil rights union, but most notely at the family research council and here at liberty university. over the last five years we have collaborated on written works as well as speaking engagements across the country. the blueprint and the second book, resurgence, how constitutional conservativism can save america, are works we enjoyed doing together. >> host: and book tv will also be talking him about the book, resurgent. you can watch that in future weeks on book tv on c-span. ken blackwell, in your book, "the blueprint," you compare presidents bush and obama to pressures hoover and roosevelt. what is th

it becomes a creature of the executive branch.it is sort of shielded from the demand for transparency, and it fundamentally changes the equation and the relationship between the three branches of government. >> former secretary of state for ohio, ken blackwell. york co-author is ken klukowski. the two of you have written two books. who is trained for? >> he is a bright young constitutional attorney, constitutional scholar. he and i worked together at the american civil rights union, but most notably at the family research council, and here at liberty university. so over the last five years, we have collaborated on written works, as well as speaking engagements across the country. "the blueprint" and the second book, "resurgent: how constitutional conservatism can save america" are works that we have enjoyed doing together. >> and booktv will also be talking with mr. klukowski about the book "resurgent." you can watch that any future weeks on book tv on c-span2. ken blackwell, in your book, "the blueprint," you compare presidents b

my branch agency. >> when did you first become aware of this scandal? >> i had second-hand knowledge in may following the briefing that the ig gave to the administrator. it was mentioned to me that this was an ongoing investigation that existed. >> since may of last year, more than a year, or approximately a year, have you talked to anyone in the administration outside of gsa that may have communicated it to anyone inside the white house or related areas? >> do you mind repeating the question? i'm not -- >> it's a fairly broad question. did you -- once you knew this terrible scandal, this waste, did you talk to any of your friends, associates or other people employed either by the office of the president or related areas within the administrati administration? did you communicate this to any of your sort of friends and family? >> i communicated to the appropriate people. >> who are they? >> who are the appropriate people? in my ongoing work as chief of staff, to the administrator inside gsa, i occasionally and sometimes on a regular basis communicate to

so we talking about areas west of carrollton and farmers branch proper.hose folks are getting hammered. we are more concerned about the potential for a tornado. there is no doubt this storm has very strong rowation associated with it and already has produced a tornado with a left of producing a tornado which have done damage and perhaps caused injuries and it continues to move through the northern portion of dallas county and it will be head up into far southeast denton county and southwestern collin county so you are under tornado warnings. >> we have a camera if that area right now. a shot from our feed and you can see the area talked about in the rotation. this is a very difficult situation to deal with with a lot of road closing right now along 635 with people stopping on the roadway. please remember to stay off the roads right now and try to get to cover. >> so, i-20 is still shut down. >>guest: yes, should down in bonnieville area. the main lane of i-20 is blocked off but the service road, as well, trying to keep as many vehicles as possible out of

this will be the last library completed of the branch library improvement program, and it is incredibly important to the community and the families that live there. i wanted to take a brief moment to emphasize that perspective from president chiu and thank all the work that has been done so far on this project from city staff. supervisor chu: thank you. >> thank you, chair person and committee members. i appreciate the comments about nearing the finish line with the branch library improvement program. this is, in fact, the 24th project. as you recall, there are 16 renovated projects and eight new library buildings. we are very pleased for this particular project, and i think it bears mentioning that in terms of background, a 2 was originally scheduled as a modest renovation that had in its budget about $3.4 million, but by listening to the community in 2007, there was a request for a full master planning process, and we in gauged as partners with the recreation and park department and dpw to realize a full comprehensive plan, and that plan called for a new library at 701 lombard street

why do you think the judiciary works relatively well by comparison to the other branches? is it because you make decisions and not avoid them and kick them down the road? how would you explain the differences? >> well, one thing is we don't set our own agenda, and we don't have an initiating role. we get -- we are a totally reactive institution. we can't say oh, this is the year that we're going to take care of the fourth amendment. we react to -- >> right. >> -- to the petitions for review. that's part of it. we don't have a platform, that we don't have an agenda to put forward. we are reacting to the petitions that people bring to the court. >> that's. >> i think we have to explain our reasons and not just in a cursory fashion, and i think justice o'connor you wrote something about this a while back where you said that almost every judge has an internal need or drive for consistency of some sort. >> mm-hmm. >> you don't want to be arbitrary yourself. >> right. >> and i think that that makes us in some ways less reactive to sort of what's happening outside of our courtroo

it happened at the intersection of branch avenue in clinton. a tow truck crashed into the ambulance, sending the ambulance into a car. two firefighters in the ambulance, the tow truck driver and the driver of the car were all sent to the hospital with non life threatening injuries. the ambulance had all warning devices on and activated when the crash happened. >>> prince george's county police are looking for suspects in a shooting. both men were taken to the hospital, one with serious injuries. one said she saw a tow truck speed down the road and thinks it may have been related. >>> police need your help cracking a series of sexual attacks in prince george's county. the assaults happened in or near the north west branch trail. at this point investigators are not sure if there is one or two suspects. melanie has more. >> reporter: the most recent assaults began mid march through april 20th. five women have been attacked, two near the station and three on the northwest branch trail. the women attacked were all accosted by an armed man, dragged o

i had served in all three branches of arizona's government. i had a big paper trail they had to go true, i guess. -- go through, i guess. >> who were your role models? >> for what? [laughter] >> you were a trailblazer. you were a role model for everyone else. justice ginsberg, where were you in your career when justice o'connor was appointed? did it have any special meaning for you at that point in your career? >> it was a moment -- one of those few in life where you know exactly where you were. i had been on a recent visit. -- i had been on the d.c. circuit for exactly one year. i was driving home. i turn on the news and they said sandra day o'connor. i was about to scream. no one would hear me. [laughter] then i found out what i could about this great lady, including the impression she made on ken starr. -- what could lunches that she made when ken starr and others visited her in phoenix. i knew she had been head of the senate in arizona. you had been to a conference on federalism at william and mary. >> yes, and i have gone there are a coup

well, it's clear that we recognize that the entire system failed the miners a at upper big branch. past congresses should not have slashed funding for mine inspectors. msha needed to do a better job. the bureaucracy obviously needs to be scrubbed to bring it into the 21st century. but they didn't do anything on purpose. and massey exploited msha's weaknesses and those weaknesses in the law. and they hurt their workers. this is the 21st century. together in a bipartisan way, mr. chairman, and it's your subcommittee that i'm honored to be the ranking member of. we have to put our heads together. we have to ensure that we move into the 21st century, that we enact meaningful reform. otherwise we're not going to be honoring the lives or the deaths of the 29 workers who spilled their blood at upper big branch. and we cannot let them be forgotten. they should have taught us a lesson. if they didn't, then we're dumber than nails. and we won't go forward. we'll keep spinning in a circle, talking about it until the next disaster occurs. i don't want that to happen. so let us work together so

and it's not just the executive branch. congress is to blame for this happening on gsa, because they're not going the oversight that they should have been doing on conferences, which i was trying to get them to do for the last five or six years. >> senator, will your bill end the spending on conferences? >> no, but it will make it -- first of all, it will make it transparent. it will reduce the amount that they're spending now. first of all, nobody knows how much they're spending. nobody knows. so, first of all, we'll find out and put limits on international conferences. and it will make each agency have to say why they're having a conference, how many of their people are going, and we limit the number of people that can c go. so there are reasons for government employees to have conferences, but not tune of what we're spending now, $500 million a year. >> well, you say, video conferencing sounds like a great idea. sena senator, just briefly, can i switch gears? i'm sure you know about the walmart/mexican bribery flat. >> v

the bureaucratic branch of government has become the unofficial fourth branch of a three branch formt we have in the united states and this is the problem with it. people get so far detached from voters and they can't be voted out of office. you get to a point in time where they feel they are invincible. they do these things and like they said previously, you end up spending $1 million on what ends up being a party. the president is going to have to balance this out politically. it's hopeful for the president's sake that he can avoid that. of course the conservatives are going to say listen. this is just part of the narrative of waisting money under the bam administration. >> back to my question and i will add to that. should the president be stronger? come out and focus stronger on listen this is something that happened that has been going on before? is he letting himself become stained by this when he really doesn't have to? >> he can definitely be stronger against it. it's an election year. it doesn't matter what he says. republicans are going to paint it as his responsibility. ev

the mayor of a city or town represents the executive branch of local government. motion to second to approve recommendations of staff. please vote. the role of the mayor of riverside is both complicated and simple. you're involved in chairing meetings and being the official spokesperson for the city. in addition to the kind of formal things, i try to see problems, get people who can make some difference ing them together and say, "let's do something about this." [ narrator ] the city council makes the laws that govern the city. they represent the legislative branch of government similar to congress on a national level. i'm having some concern, not feeling comfortable about... what our long-range plan is at the sewer plant. what we'd like the opportunity to do is to review the report, have the different departments look at it and come back with the council in the second week of february. [ narrator ] in this city, like many others a city manager administers the services the city provides. i work for the mayor and city council. they're the elected representatives. a

you just pointed to legislative branch. how about the executive branch? this thing called executive power which they wheeled, the legislative branch has pretty much seated to the -- legislative branch has pretty much ceded executive power to declare war. the last declared war was when? world war ii. all these other things are not wars. even if we call them that they are not because congress hasn't declared anything and yet they are being funded. the judicial branch has this power called what? judiciary review. you see anything in the federal government that gives them this power where they determine matters of constitutionality? nowhere to be seen and guess who the president was who threw down the gauntlet about that and said they don't have that power? thomas jefferson. he sure did. but again, we can go back in a minute to our constitution again, but i was very fascinated by this new york times article that indicated that our constitution which for so long had been the template from which other open societies developed their own models, it has fallen dra

branch and the judicial branch. that comes from the book of isaiah, by the way. as did a lot of things in our government, a judeo-christian basis for the establishment of our government. but, it worked very well the way that it was established. what they did not anticipate was a fourth branch of government. which we now have, which is grown very big and very powerful and that is called special interest. and why did that occur? well, the way it was initially set up, it was sacrificed to go into the government and therefore, it wasn't really anticipated the people would want to stay there for the rest of their lives. you know they would go to serve, go back to their community and somebody else would come. but it has changed and now people want to stay for their whole lives and they need money in order to do that and they have to establish relationships with powerful financial entities. and that cannot be done without quid pro quo. hence you have the establishment of another branch of government, which is very powerful

in public venues about the judicial branch of government and activist judges. i used to think it was a judge who would get-up-and-go to work in the morning, but people have other ideas about activist judges. much criticism. it seemed to me that it was primarily a lack of understanding by many people about the role of the judicial branch. of course they have to decide questions we don't like and wish weren't there, but it's not the judges who are bringing these things. i really thought we needed to enhance the education of young people about how the government works the reason we got schools is the argument we have to teach people how the government worked and about the system the framers developed and how it helped people and they can interact within that system. we were finding that barely 1/3 of americans can name the three branches of the government much less say what they do. the percentages of people who understand how the system works are so small. there is a real job to do. we had a conference at georgetown and had wonderful people participate and talk a

a judicial branch. that comes from the book of isaiah, by the way. it allows things in our government, a judeo-christian government as the basis of establishment for our government. but it worked very well the way it was established. what they did not anticipate was a fourth branch of government. which we now how, which has grown very big and popular which is the special interests. why did that occur? well, the way it was initially set up, it was the sacrifice. therefore, it was not anticipated that people would want to stay there for the rest of their lives. they would serve and go back to their community and someone else would come. it has changed. now, people want to stay for their entire lives, and they need money to do that and they have to establish relationships with powerful financial entities, and that cannot be done without quid pro quo, hence you have the establishment of another branch of government, which is very powerful and distorts the will of the people. i would go so far to say that vi