Western Swing Voters Questioning Decision To Vote For Obama

Watch this to understand what's going on with all industries in the US and the government agencies charged with oversight over them -

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/



We don't need leaders in government who work "in a bipartisan manner", who "look for consensus". We don't need any more "uniters, not dividers".



We need "cleaners".



We need crusaders. Fighters. A president who knows right from wrong, doesn't split the difference on corruption for the sake of expediency. We need a president with convictions, who will set the full power of the DoJ and all investigative arms of the executive branch loose to expose, purge and separate (with a cleaver) Big Business's hold on the People's government.



We need representatives in all branches of our government more loyal to the Constitution and the People than to a political party.



That's not Obama and this current Congress.
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Western Swing Voters Questioning Decision To Vote For Obama

Obama is just another Washington insider, perpetuating the status quo, blocking real reform. He isn't fixing anything. He's continuing the same failed deregulatory system that's allowed corporations to prosper at the expense of Americans' lives.



To excuse Obama, to pass the buck, say "It's Congress's job", is to be ig.nor.ant of the executive branch agencies under a president's control & all of these agencies' cozy relationships with Big Business. Obama's done nothing to change it.



One example is Obama's reaction to the oil blow-out in the Gulf. How does separating MMS into two or three agencies (where one would issue the drilling permits, another would inspect the drilling operations, etc.) change employees' behavior, where inspectors didn't inspect but had oil companies' employees write up the inspection sheets?



People need to be fired & face criminal charges. But Obama doesn't like doing that. Obama blocks investigations & prosecutions, preferring to "look forward, not back".



Career politicians (professional Democrats & Republicans) have gamed the government so that everyone, from Congress to the White House, can point their fingers at someone else & say, "It's not my fault, it was his responsibility".



And then after years of investigations and hearings, watered down findings are published and then buried. Business continues as before. If anyone is left holding the bag it's some low-level flunkie, someone who has retired (with full pension & benefits) before the finding is published, and is never prosecuted.
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Obama isn't fixing anything.



Obama is continuing the same failed deregulatory system that has allowed corporations to prosper at the expense of the lives of American citizens.



Watch this to understand what's going on with all industries in the US and the government agencies charged with oversight over them -

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/flyingcheap/
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The Finance Bill, Fully Supported By Obama, Does Nothing To Reform Wall Street -



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-the-finance-bill-wont_b_587427.html
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Why do I, a liberal Democrat, say that Barack Obama is a weasel, in bed with corporations?:



Obama's Freeze On Offshore Drilling Was Verbal Order



It was lip service, nothing more.



The Minerals Management Service (MMS) has issued at least 17 drilling permits in the past month. Administration officials say those permits do not violate the ban. The moratorium was not put into writing, which can make the details of the drilling freeze difficult to assess.



The administration's statements about the ban on new drilling have been straightforward. "We've announced that no permits for drilling new wells will go forward until the 30-day safety and environmental review that I requested is complete," President Obama said May 14 in the White House Rose Garden.



Testifying before Congress on May 18, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made it sound equally clear. "The president has been very clear with me: Hit the pause button," Salazar said. "We have hit the pause button."



The day of that hearing, the AP reported that MMS had approved at least nine deepwater exploration wells in the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on April 20, with minimal environmental reviews.



http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127114044
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As a deep sea oil blow-out is gushing out of control and destroying the Gulf and the southeast region of the US (& will destroy the eastern seaboard and the North Atlantic Ocean unless it is stopped), Obama refuses to shut down BP's other operations that have worse safety problems than the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wenonah-hauter/why-obama-must-shut-down_b_589372.html?ir=Politics
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Obama Supports Lifting Liability Cap for 'Future' Oil Spills (But Not This One) -



http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/05/25/25greenwire-obama-administration-supports-lifting-liability-2382.html



Why a cap at all? Why isn't Obama insisting that oil companies pay for all of the damage they cause? Why is Obama taking the REPUBLICAN position?
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