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Wall Street doesn’t like King Coal anymore. In the last two years, the biggest banks in America have adopted policies to phase out financing of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal. Unfortunately, PNC didn’t get the memo. Send PNC CEO James Rohr an email and tell him to stop financing MTR now. Since 2008, PNC has provided over $130 million to six of the eight largest MTR coal mining companies, including the worst of the worst- Massey Energy. PNC Bank is now the largest financier of mountaintop removal in the US. While boasting to be the “greenest bank in the business,” PNC continues to bankroll the wholesale destruction of the Appalachian Mountains. Too bad the “greenest bank” is focused solely on greenbacks. Tell PNC’s CEO to put his money where his mouth is and protect America’s mountains from MTR. PNC has not made a single attempt to stop financing mountaintop removal. But we want to change that. RAN and our allies have convinced much larger banks like Chase and Wells Fargo to move away from backing mountaintop removal mining. PNC is next. We’re not stopping until there isn’t a bank left in the biz willing to finance the flattening of Appalachia and the poisoning of her people. Thank you for taking action to save America’s mountains!
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A Republican operative in Ohio actually said take Democratic Congresswoman Betty Sutton out of the House and put her back in the kitchen. This comes not long after House Republicans said that Speaker Pelosi should be put in her place. GOP Sexism like this needs our strong response.
Denounce Republican sexism. Sign the petition below telling Republicans that a woman’s place is in the House of Representatives:
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5 Steps to a Rich-Enough Retirement
By Comcast Finance
For What it’s Worth
Editor’s Note: This post by Jennie L. Phipps originally appeared on September 23 on WalletPop.com.
If you drive a car without knowing where you want to go, who knows where you’ll end up? The same thing applies to retirement. If you head out into the unexplored wilderness of later life with no plan, chances are you’ll find yourself in a place where you don’t want to be.
Money magazine offers 7 Steps to a Richer Retirement. It’s a little long, but if you’ve got lots of time, read it. If your schedule’s tight, take a quick look at these 5 Steps to a Rich-Enough Retirement, gleaned from folks who have good retirement road maps and concise advice.
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Step 1: Find something you love to do. 88-year-old Mort Walker, who has been creating the cartoon strip Beetle Bailey for the last 60 years, says cartooning is his passion and he has no reason to quit. Beetle can be read in 1,800 newspapers worldwide. Walker and three other people meet once a month to come up with ideas for the perpetual army private and his boss Sarge, then Walker takes the 30 best ideas, polishes them and turns them into cartoons. “You have to keep being creative,” he says. “How could I retire and stop giving people their daily cartoon fix?”
Step 2: Have a solid financial blueprint. Lee Eisenberg, former editor-in-chief of Esquire, and author of The Number, a best-selling book about retirement, says when it comes to figuring out a retirement financial plan, too many Baby Boomers suffer from “IDD – “inspiration deficit disorder.” So they are headed into retirement with no plan. “Unless they really want to spend the last days of their lives in government-run nursing homes, they should get off the dime and put some kind of plan in place,” he says
Step 3: Don’t quit earning money early. It costs too much. 114-year-old Walter Breuning of Great Falls, Mont., was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s oldest living man on his birthday, Sept. 21. Breuning’s advice on retirement: “Stay working as long as you can and don’t retire too early because you’ll find out you need a little more money than what Social Security pays.”
Step 4: Stay healthy. Exercise guru Jack LaLanne, who will turn 96 on Sept. 26, has this to say about retirement: “When you slow down too much, you come to a stop. So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.”
Step 5: Have a good fallback plan. As 58-year-old country singer George Strait croons, “If you’re headed down a one-way street and you’re not sure it’s the way you wanna go; In money or love or all the above … you’ve got to have an ace in the hole.”
Do you have any retirement tips? Share them here.
WalletPop.com is one of the leading consumer finance sites on the Web. Find the latest deals, bargains, consumer protection and personal finance information quickly. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast.
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a message from Mitch Stewart
The path this country takes after November 2nd will be determined by what we do over the next 22 days.
That’s the message the President is delivering on the stump across the country, but he’ll be the first to tell you: he needs you at his side.
We want to thank and recognize the people who are driving this grassroots campaign — organizing house meetings, talking to voters, and funding this effort one small donation at a time.
The extreme candidates on the other side aren’t just intent on bringing our progress to a halt, they want to take us backward, well beyond the failed policies of the last administration.
They envision an America where Social Security is privatized and left to the whims of the market. They picture an America where education programs get cut to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations. And they look forward to an America where the insurance companies once again have the right to deny coverage to anyone they want.
This election is about choosing the direction this country takes.
On one side is the millions from undisclosed donors attacking our candidates. On the other is us. And each and every one of us who is committed to this struggle for change has a role to play.
That’s why we all need to be knocking on doors, making phone calls, and spreading the word from here through Election Day. The President is doing all he can, and he’s counting on all of us to take that next step today.
https://donate.barackobama.com/Backstage
Thanks,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
Be a Seed for Change 
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