Tuesday, September 30, 2014

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      Obama's elections are only the first steps in a long road to structural change.
     
     
    Charles Brown Have you heard about the _Citizens United_ case , and the 1%billionaires unloading train car loads of money to the GOP ? That's why the Democrats are sending so many requests to the 99%
  • Charles Brown Obama's elections are only the first steps in a long road to structural change. They are reforms to which the rightwing has responded with political insanity. This insane attack on the 99% has the potential to wake up the sleeping giant with a counter-attack against the rightwing, which will be further strides toward structural change.
  • Charles Brown We are in a protracted struggle. I've been in it for over thirty years. Reagan's election in 1980 was the beginning of long struggle against the rightwing. Obama's election and administration is a big step toward overthrowing Reaganism , for those of us who have been fighting it since 1981.
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  • John Manzione Geez Mary Kaye Catone 67 responses and counting... you MUST be pretty. . Joshing....
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  • Mary Kaye Catone Charles in terms of the economy - he has not.
  • Mary Kaye Catone The democrats have culpability for us not being in better financial shape after 6 years, woo hoo banks, corporations and the top tier have protected and grown their wealth. The stock market soars. Obama is not a populist, socialist or anything else for the people.
  • Charles Brown Obama ran last time explicitly against Reaganomics/trickle down, so yes, Obama has in terms of the economy, Mary Kaye Catone. He also appointed a pro-labor majority to the National Labor Relations Board and got a Pay Equity for Women law pasted, not to...See More
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  • Mary Kaye Catone Actions speak louder than words. His economic team from day one was not picked for the people.
  • Charles Brown Action speaks louder than the team picked , too. See above on the anti-Reaganite actions he has taken./
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  • Mary Kaye Catone Unemployment remains ridiculously high, real unemployment and stagnate wages are stalling the economy.
  • Mary Kaye Catone In lieu of his Goldman Sachs team there were a lot of alternatives. He protected the segment of the economy he chose to.
  • Charles Brown Unemployment remains ridiculously high, real unemployment and stagnate wages are stalling the economy.///////// That is the _private_ sector's fault, not the government's . This is not a government run economy.
  • Mary Kaye Catone None of what you are saying is enough to offset what he did and didn't do in an era of unbelievable inequity.
  • Mary Kaye Catone Sort of like funding the banks through QEs and more.
  • Charles Brown Yes it is. It completely offsets it. Obama is good.
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  • Mary Kaye Catone I guess that is such a grey area. Bankers, politicians. So confusing.
  • Mary Kaye Catone And not restoring our constitutional rights? And NDAA?
  • Mary Kaye Catone Excuse me while I disagree when most of the major trajectory as established by Bush was followed and codified.
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  • Mary Kaye Catone I am over it. I am over the excuses and the blame.
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  • Mary Kaye Catone He is no populist and he ignored the brutal treatment of Occupy Protestors by the militarized police and more. Things I cannot and will not ignore.
  • Mary Kaye Catone Thanks Bill, you know how I feel about honesty. LOL I am on a crusade. Me against the world.
  • Charles Brown How could I forget the 80 plus billion bailout of GM and Chrysler. That was a tremendous bust to Michigan 's economy and employment, and that of several other states.
  • Charles Brown Obama is not responsible to single handedly overthrow the entirety of Reaganism in 6 years, especially since that can't be done without a Congress supporting him, which it didn't even in the first term with Blue Dog Dems stabbing him in the back. Obama has halted to movement of the government to the right , and taken some steps to start moving left.
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  • Mary Kaye Catone I disagree.
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  • Ed Huydic Triple chip in match...tonight, only!!!
  • John Manzione This fight -struggle- began with the proto-typical 'seven sisters' petro giants in league with the Rockefeller Group alliance with and ownership of Chase Manhattan Bank- back in the late 1940s- and the interlocked directorates of NBC/ GE -the largest ...See More
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  • John Manzione PS Obama has been vexing at best and some fine minds who supported him are now highly suspicious that the corporate powers that be have coopted him as they did both power/money crazed Clintons. History will tell this tale.
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  • Aphrodite Kavyas How otherwise intelligent, sane people hold in their heads at the very same time these two directly competing thoughts is beyond me: (1) campaign finance laws have led to large corporations and the very wealthy being able to literally buy elections, cr...See More
  • Charles Brown I agree with your historical materialist method, John Manzione, .
  • Aphrodite Kavyas I think Obama is doing the best he can, within the realities of our campaign finance system... all you have to do is look closely at his judicial nominees... courts have great and lasting impact far beyond this or that policy today.