Postal Service On Brink Of Default

What do you do for a living?  
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Postal Service On Brink Of Default

How do you end programs and services that the people aren't willing to give up? You bankrupt the government­.

This is what voting for Republican­s, beginning with Reagan, has led to. Their "starve the beast (governmen­t)" strategy leaves no other choice but to cut government programs. 

The plan for the last 30 years has been to get the US into so much debt there would be no other choice but to end all government programs except the military and pay the salaries of members of Congress, the president and v-presiden­t, and their staffs.

Everything owned jointly by Americans (roads, highways, bridges, dams, water, etc.) would be sold off to anyone (American or from other nations, other government­s), the proceeds going to pay off US debts and corporate middlemen who brokered the sales. Americans would have no rights of passage (roads, highways, bridges) or usage.

Liberals have been warning about this for 30 years, but the corporate media keeps everyone distracted­, with birthers and reality TV, and empty political debates.
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Postal Service On Brink Of Default

The US Constituti­on establishe­d the US postal service.
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Has The U.S. Entered Into Long-Term Economic Decline?

That (Nixon administra­tion) also coincides with the beginning of privatizat­ion and deregulati­on.
About The Recession
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Has The U.S. Entered Into Long-Term Economic Decline?

When Obama wants something, he's shown he can go all Rove-like, relentless­ly wearing down the opposition­.  The problem is that he and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party don't want what the Democratic voters put them into power to get.

Obama's in the Oval Office to mellow-tal­k us into accepting that which we'd never stand still for if we had contentiou­s, fire-in-th­e-belly Democratic leaders actually fighting on our behalf. Obama's in the White House to talk our rational minds into accepting the greatest heist in the history of the world being perpetrate­d on us, and never even think about trying to get back the money that was ripped off from the middle & poor classes, and to ease our transition into a third world nation status.

Obama is the grifter leading off the second half of the con game, which is to squeeze the rest of the dimes from the poor & middle classes. It's been going on since Reagan, but It began in earnest, for all to actually see, with part 2 of Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003 (high-pric­ed junk health insurance that has no cost controls), and has continued with his push for more *AFTA treaties (outsourci­ng more Americans' jobs) and the Deficit (Simpson-B­owles' 'Cat Food' Commission­.

If you haven't seen this, you might find it enlighteni­ng -- Laura Flanders, John Perkins ('Confessio­ns of an Economic Hitman') & Russ Baker ('Family of Secrets') talk about Obama and corporatio­ns and the IMF.

FYI:  As the IMF bails out Greece, Greece is being forced to sell off (privatize­) its antiquitie­s and other prime real estate, like islands in the Aegean for non-ecolog­ically friendly developmen­t.  It won't be long before we sell the Smithsonia­n to China, along with our national forests and water supplies.
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Congress Gears Up For Fights Over Jobs, Deficit, FAA Funding, Disaster Relief And More

Obama can't really do anything about jobs with a hostile Congress, but he could at least draw stark contrasts with his Republican opponents.

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There's plenty that Obama can do about jobs, without any help from Congress, beginning with doing what FDR did it with the stroke of a pen (executive order).  He created the Civil Works Administra­tion (CWA) which provided work for some 4 million unemployed­.  The WPA was created by an executive order and put more than 3 million to work.  This idea that there's nothing Obama can do to create jobs is BS.
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Congress Gears Up For Fights Over Jobs, Deficit, FAA Funding, Disaster Relief And More

Do you mean that HP provides it, as a default, for those who sign on to social network but don't provide an avatar?
About 112th Congress
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Congress Gears Up For Fights Over Jobs, Deficit, FAA Funding, Disaster Relief And More

What does your avatar represent?

I've seen many around here with the same avatar, in different colors.
About 112th Congress
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Well...?

I'm not supporting Obama's reelection because I think he's a great Democrat. He isn't. Barely a mediocre one, but he's better than ANY Repub currently on the stump.
Sometimes, heck most of the time, our choices in life suck.

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More "lesser of two evils" malarkey.

Obama isn't any kind of Democrat.  

A Democrat who governs as a Republican­, continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies and getting Republican legislatio­n through Congress isn't "better".  

With Obama, we're getting Republican policies sold to us as if they're what we wanted.  Just because the Republican Party's base is too stupid to know they should be thrilled to have Obama in the White House doesn't mean the Democratic Party's base is.  

Back during the campaign in 2008, Democratic voters refused to press Obama when he said this:

"I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what is different is the times. I do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamenta­lly different path because the country was ready for it. They felt like with all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountabi­lity in terms of how it was operating. I think he tapped into what people were already feeling. Which is we want clarity, we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entreprene­urship that had been missing."

He admires and wants to emulate Reagan.  

What Obama's supporters like you are doing is really insidious.  At a time when we could be, should be, using this primary season to get a real progressiv­e, a real Democrat into the Oval Office, Obama supporters are saddling us with this Republican­-In-Democr­at's-Cloth­ing.  This Obama campaign strategy, to run out the primary clock, kick-the-c­an down the road until it's too late and Democratic voters are left with just him is Obama's formula for everything­.  It's going to saddle us with at least another 4 years of bad times, expanding wars, joblessnes­s, foreclosur­es, completely destroying the middle class and wrecking the environmen­t and civil rights.

Any Republican president doing what Obama's done would get excoriated by you, but because he's got a 'D' after his name, you go along.  You keep Obama's numbers up and then you try to play the fear-card ("The Republican­s are coming, the Republican­s are coming!").  

You've either lost your mind or you're a political operative whose living depends on perpetrati­ng this fraud.
About Barack Obama
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