The GOOD news is that a COMPETITIVE DOLLAR in the global market and a strong dollar at HOME are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

Taking AWAY the risk from the FINANCIAL sector and taking it on to the PUBLIC shoulders is not the right APPROACH.

As the WORLD's finest DEMOCRACY, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less BLOODY RITUALS of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the REPUBLIC cleansed.

I always KNEW that I would give back. My MOTHER and my FATHER both believe you have to work hard and give back. That's why I was a volunteer firefighter, that's why I worked in a homeless SHELTER. I always knew I'd give back, elective office or not.

Certainly, some of the anti-bank rhetoric has shifted a little BIT, but on either SIDE of the aisle, there seems to be DIFFERENT tacts. On one side of the aisle, you see a proposed scaling BACK of Dodd-Frank. On the other, a proposed reinstatement of Glass-Steagall.

I'm very LUCKY. I have a really supportive husband in HENRY, and there's my mum, too. I couldn't have a career and manage the kids' routines and HOUSEHOLD thing single-handedly. I'd just go CRAZY.

We had incense and rock'n'roll POSTERS, and we sold records and ROLLING papers. People could just, like, HANG out. We had a cool vibe GOING.