I have to fall down laughing at anyone who has the gall to talk about "moral hazard".
We're not only in a Depression, we're going through the Sixth Great Extinction.
In the next few years there are going to be wars for water. Here.
Wake up.
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That's quite a condescending screed, given that what you're actually describing is the US government bailout of big business, banks, savings & loans, etc., and the pillaging of the Social Security trust fund over the decades.
Not only have Americans paid into the programs that you dismiss out of hand as programs they scam, American citizens, as consumers, created the great wealth wealth of this nation by purchasing on credit. Americans have also not seen any real increase in their wages in more than 30 years. We have paid, many times over, what our purchases really should have cost.
And, of course we're a secular Constitution democracy, you id-jit; my citation of the bible was for those holier than thou rightwingers who don't believe that we are and who believe the nation was founded as a Christian nation. They believe as you believe, and don't support retiring consumer debt. That doesn't really square with their other beliefs about this nation's Chr!stian roots, now does it? It doesn't make them very good Chr!stians, now does it?
You need to get your head out of your @$$ for some fresh air.
(Do you like being talked to this way? If you don't, why would you talk to others this way?)
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And I suggest you learn what 'Democratic Caucus' means.
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What you don't get about this situation is that nobody expected miracles from him.
We did expect honesty, transparency, and have been getting nothing but a snow job.
There can be no democracy, no solutions, no functioning government, without honest, without trust, when elected officials are Iying, cutting secret deals and then spinning them as something that they're not.
The fact that you are defending him just tells me that you're either ig.no.rant of the facts, or, you're as corrupt as he is. Because if you wanted what we all thought we were getting when we put Obama and Democrats into power, you would be joining those who are only doing what he told us we were going to have to do.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama told people that they had to stay involved after the election, that they couldn't just vote for him, go away for four years and expect that he would do what they had hoped. He said that there were powerful interests working against what the people wanted, and if We The People wanted Obama to do our bidding, we would have to MAKE HIM DO IT.
Obama's 'most ardent supporters' forget that those of us who criticize Obama are only doing what he warned us needed to be done. NOT to trust him.
Since the election (and even before, with his FISA vote), Obama's given us every reason to distrust and doubt him. He's been deceptive, breaking every campaign pledge and promise, conceding the positions of the left (getting nothing in return), and hobbling real Democrats at every turn while making Republicans and Blue Dogs stronger (and harder to beat in 2010 and 2012).
Obama's 'most ardent supporters' (like you) are the most immediate problem, as they help him screw them (& us) over. They keep his personal numbers high. That enables Obama to blow them (and all Democratic voters) off. Until they wake up to these facts, they are their own (& our) worst e n e m ies, and the reason we don't get what we all thought we were voting for when we voted Obama and Democrats into office as the majority power in our government.
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he is inherently a political pragmatist, rather than a liberal ideologue.
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No.
Obama's a politician, and I mean that in the worst sense of the word.
He convinced centrists that he was a centrist.
He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist.
But first and foremost, Obama is a lawyer (also in the worst sense of the word).
Obama chose his words very carefully (lawyer-speak) during the campaign, giving people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote. It's why even among his most ardent admirers, they still argue about whether he's a liberal or a centrist or a moderate Republican.
Doing what is right for transnational corporations is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards. He's the epitome of the 1950s Republican, "What's good for GM is good for America."
He did a job on everybody.
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By the way, try reading the entire comment.
Had you read it, you would have seen the direct argument to your comment.
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Obama sure made some deal with Lieberman -- Here's one of the many 'services' Lieberman has performed for Obama:
After Obama flip-flopped (one of many) on an issue he campaigned on (transparency and releasing the thousands of t0rture photos of detainees), he used Lieberman to slip it into legislation that gave the SoD the power to gut FOIA and bury the evidence forever.
http://www.truthout.org/1022095
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/143322/outrage:_house_sne akily_pass es_bill_ba nning_rele ase_of_pho tos_showin g_detainee _abuse/
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