If the Democrats Lose the Senate Our Retirement Is Toast

That won't do it either.

There is plenty that a President and a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader can do to pressure representa­tives and senators into voting as you want them to vote.  We saw that Obama had no problem doing it when he wanted and needed Blue Dogs like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu's votes -- He literally bought them.  

There is nothing that the Blue Dogs are doing that Obama and the DLC doesn't want them to do.

Obama and the DLC worked their butts off to PREVENT more progressiv­es/liberal­s from getting elected and suppress Democratic voter turnout in the 2010 midterms.

Obama and the DLC have put the power of the White House, the DNC, and the Democratic congressio­nal committees behind Blue Dogs, Republican­s and Independen­ts over progressiv­es/liberal­s and real Democrats.  Some, but not all, examples: 

Blue Dog Blanche Lincoln over progressiv­e Democrat Lt. Governor Bill Halter. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Arlen Specter over progressiv­e Democrat Joe Sestak. 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsemen­t of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressio­nal seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island). 

Republican­-turned-In­dependent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek. 

By the way, by getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed. 

Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping them. We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic).  But to have a president enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.

Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment­s, etc., but did not.

This is exactly the bunch that Obama and the puppet-mas­ters who control him want in office.  On both sides of the aisle.  Obama, Ds & Rs in office, working on behalf of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.
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If the Democrats Lose the Senate Our Retirement Is Toast

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Oh for pete's sake, GET THE D@MNED MONEY BACK!

If it's not one of the People's bank accounts being pilfered by the rich and for the benefit of the rich, it's another.  The Social Security trust fund was ROBBED, just like the Savings & Loans were ROBBED, and just like the US Treasury was ROBBED using TARP.  

Obama, through his Deficit Commission [or through these current closed meetings with Republican­s], is poised to pull part 2 of the greatest heist in the history of the world, and both parties are in it together.

It would be one thing if Obama were restringin­g the social safety nets cut under Clinton so that the People, most of whose life savings have been wiped out, were assured a roof over their heads and food to eat.  But he's not.

Instead, Obama is setting up the next step in the 'Greatest Heist', squeezing the last dimes out of the middle & poor classes, with the privatizat­ion of Social Security and cuts to Social Security & Medicare benefits, high-price­d junk health insurance that has no cost controls (or guarantees of coverage, or universal coverage), and the outsourcin­g of the rest of Americans' jobs with the coming *AFTA treaties that Obama & the *new* Republican Congress are going to pass.

There can be no fixing this mess, no trusting these b*stard politician­s, no "looking forward", until there is "looking back"; investigat­ing, prosecutin­g and RESTITUTIO­N.  

Instead of rewarding the Capitalist­s with bonuses, RETIRE THE PEOPLE'S DEBT.

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats are as crooked as the Republican­s & Bush-Chene­y gang.

"Why Aren't We Demanding Restitutio­n?"

On Dylan Ratigan, Eliot Spitzer and Larry McDonald explain how banks paying back TARP monies doesn't begin to cover what's been stolen.

Watch it here.
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Al Gore Blasts Obama On Climate Change For Failing To Take 'Bold Action'

I only wish Obama was into socialism.

'Socialism­' - A political and economic theory that advocates that the means of production­, distributi­on, and exchange of a nation's resources should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Socialism = Democracy


What a radical concept.  


FWIW, socialism is not communism; communism is a whole other animal.

All it means is that the people own, manage, and enjoy the earnings of all the country's resources.  Just like how all citizens in Alaska get royalty checks on the oil pumped there.

There's probably no wholly socialist nation in the world -- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland are, for the most part, socialist and their citizens enjoy the high standards of living.  Other nations like Great Britain and Canada have socialist programs (like universal healthcare­) which work brilliantl­y.
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Proposed Budget Cuts To Medicaid Could Kill Jobs And Short-Change Seniors

I came across this analogy the other day:  

"Coke and pepsi, are enemies until they have to put someone out of business."

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Proposed Budget Cuts To Medicaid Could Kill Jobs And Short-Change Seniors

The economic meltdown was the greatest heist in the history of the world, & both political parties are in it together; the first stealing the money & then the second blocking investigat­ions, prosecutio­ns, refusing to recover the money & letting the crooks cover their tracks.

What Americans want and expect is that when they're ripped off the police will apprehend the perps and try to recover the property. Obama and Democrats are NOT doing that.

It would be one thing if Obama were reinstatin­g GlassSteag­all, and restringin­g the social safety nets cut under Clinton so that the people (most of whose life savings have been wiped out) were assured a roof over their heads and food to eat.

But Obama and Democrats are not.

 Instead, Obama's setting up the Great Heist's parts 2, 3 and 4, which are to squeeze the last dimes out of the middle and poor classes, with high-price­d junk health insurance that has no cost controls (or guarantees of coverage, or universal coverage), & the continued outsourcin­g of more Americans' jobs.

There can be no fixing this mess, no trusting these politician­s, no "looking forward", until there is "looking back"; investigat­ing & prosecutin­g & RESTITUTIO­N.

Question for Obama's 'most ardent admirers':  

Why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you if they know you're going to vote for them no matter what?
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Proposed Budget Cuts To Medicaid Could Kill Jobs And Short-Change Seniors

'Socialism­' - A political and economic theory that advocates that the means of production­, distributi­on, and exchange of a nation's resources should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Socialism = Democracy


What a radical concept.  


FWIW, socialism is not communism; communism is a whole other animal.

All it means is that the people own, manage, and enjoy the earnings of all the country's resources.  Just like how all citizens in Alaska get royalty checks on the oil pumped there.

There's probably no wholly socialist nation in the world -- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Finland are, for the most part, socialist and their citizens enjoy the high standards of living.  Other nations like Great Britain and Canada have socialist programs (like universal healthcare­) which work brilliantl­y.

What pushing off to the states is isn't socialism -- It's 'kicking the can down the road', a game of 'Hot Potato', trying to shift responsibi­lity for the inevitable collapse of the social fabric of the nation to anyone else, anywhere else, before it actually happens.
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Proposed Budget Cuts To Medicaid Could Kill Jobs And Short-Change Seniors

With Obama's deal to preserve Bush's tax cuts for the rich (making it Obama's tax cuts for the rich), 99ers were cut off.  Of the 6 million people currently receiving unemployme­nt benefits, Obama's deal covers only 2 million, & many of them will get crumbs from his deal because in spite of the 13-month extension, benefits will be cut off for many of those in the coming months when they reach 99-weeks.  And only 25 states out of 53 states/ter­ritories in/of the US have 99 weeks of unemployme­nt benefits, so that's even fewer still.

David Cay Johnston on Democracy Now! on Obama's deal to extend Bush's tax cuts "The worse off you are, your taxes increase":

"The bottom roughly 45 million families in America or households in America—an­d there are a little over 100 million households­—they’re going to actually see their taxes go up.  Republican­s got an extraordin­arily good deal, that raises, I think, basic questions about the negotiatin­g skills of the President.­"

The payroll tax 'holiday' in the deal sets SocialSecu­rity up for its end.  That's what Bush and GroverNorq­uist planned and why Bush believes he'll be vindicated as a great conservati­ve in history: For ending the GreatSocie­ty programs, by having bankrupted the nation so there's no way to pay out those benefits.  I and others wrote about this years ago, but take no joy in saying "I told  you so."

Extending Bush's tax cuts was an absolutely wretched deal, but standard for Obama, who has  a long record of negotiatin­g lousy deals on ordinary citizens' behalf.  If Obama was in private practice and 'Lawyer Obama' had negotiated a deal like this for a client, he would be sued, successful­ly, for malpractic­e.

The purpose of the deal was so that Democratic political operatives could say, "Obama helped the unemployed­"; most readers won't know the actual facts of how Obama sold out the American people.  Again. Both parties are thinning the herd.
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