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And without its middle class The Center Cannot Hold.Do you believe the US is currently a Democracy or an Oligarchy?
It is now and it always has been an oligarchy.
The degree to which the insiders have been giving themselves advantages that the rest of us end up paying for, however, has accelerated considerably in the last 30 years.
That is why this economy is unsustainable.
We allowed our masters to screw the midddle class.
Leaving his wife with nothing but Social Security to live on.
And now the rich want Social Security.
What do you think will happen if the Fall of 2010 makes Fall 2008 look like Happy Days?
Republicans and Democrats are all about Party First.Sometimes the radicals (Noam Chomsky & Alexander Cockburn) get it right. Both saw Obama as a centrist Democrat in the Clinton mold long before Obama reached Washington.The irony is we are a democratic obligarchy. We keep electing the same power elite (or those put up by the power elite). I'd hoped Obama was different - his choice of Timothy Geithner as Sect. Treasury and Larry Summers as an ecomomic adviser makes me wonder what he was thinking. Insiders have no clue as to the plight of real Americans, or, at least they don't seem to care if they do.
Possibly his selection of Geithner and Summers has more to do with the amount of Wall Street money his campaign raised in '08?
What I wonder most about is why so many "progressives" seem incapable of judging Obama by his policies and character...
Many progressives want him to lead more to the left, and radicals on the right see him as far left (it all depends on ones perspective). On most issues I find the Obama presidency refreshingly cerebral and centrist - the one issue I question is the economic policy.
It's obvious the Republican Party is fighting for its survival, they have lost the last two elections and feared a successful Obama administration might be their undoing. As the economy is central to the success of any president, McConnell and Boehner as well as Limbuagh - the defacto leaders of the R party - have made every effort to stonewall an economic recovery. With an intense propaganda campaign against Obama from even before his inauguration, aided by the conservative media, it's little wonder recovery has been slow.
IMHO the biggest lie told by the Republicans is "Country First".
I agree.Leaving his wife with nothing but Social Security to live on.
And now the rich want Social Security.
What do you think will happen if the Fall of 2010 makes Fall 2008 look like Happy Days?
Excuse me - but Social Security was sold to the public as old age income insurance. Anyone who pays into it has a right to expect the return of their money.
Both Nader and Paul would end the mass killing in Afghanistan and Iraq.Sounds like a Dystopic Nightmare.
Do you see the wreck arriving before midterms 2010?Peterson's "Running on Empty" is a good read. (he's an On, not an En).
Amazon.com: Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It: Peter G. Peterson: Books
He's correct in that we are going to have to redo the "SS bargain" in order get our unfunded liabilities under control. I'd be okay with this if the same ruthlessness were applied to the public employees whose lavish pensions and benefits (and employment levels) are bleeding out the country.
I personally do not expect to see one dime of my SS contributions returned to me - and started saving for retirement right after I finished grad school. I could see the train wreck coming years ago.
Do you believe the US is currently a Democracy or an Oligarchy?
The irony is we are a democratic obligarchy. We keep electing the same power elite (or those put up by the power elite). I'd hoped Obama was different - his choice of Timothy Geithner as Sect. Treasury and Larry Summers as an ecomomic adviser makes me wonder what he was thinking. Insiders have no clue as to the plight of real Americans, or, at least they don't seem to care if they do.