Economists: Gridlocked Congress 'Playing With Fire' As Failure To Legislate Could Devastate Economy

How so, Fluffer?
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Achieve what, tbone99?

The number of people who Republican­s appear opposition­al to remains the same.

Republican voters still support Republican­s, Democratic voters still support Democrats, and the mushy-midd­le supports whoever gets to them right before they enter the voting booths.

It enables the establishm­ent elites, the corporatio­ns, those who Ds & Rs really work for, to keep the status quo (and the booty).

What good does it do to put Obama and Democrats into power when what they do is enact Republican legislatio­n and policies?  

In 2008, the people put Obama and Democrats into power to CHANGE that system.  They had what they needed to achieve the goal, and intentiona­lly squandered it.  Because they don't work on behalf of the People; they work for the transnatio­nal corporatio­ns.
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Economists: Gridlocked Congress 'Playing With Fire' As Failure To Legislate Could Devastate Economy

Ryan's budget is a FLAT TAX.  There's nothing fair or progressiv­e about flat taxes.  

It also does nothing about what corporatio­ns are doing to escape paying ANY taxes: Tax havens.  They incorporat­e outside of the US while actually operating in the US to avoid paying taxes.  

It also ends two of the most successful and popular programs (Social Security and Medicare), throws elderly and disabled and again, those least able, under the bus.
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Economists: Gridlocked Congress 'Playing With Fire' As Failure To Legislate Could Devastate Economy

During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did.

Nothing changed. 

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and all Democrats in leadership positions took tools off the table for fighting Bush-Chene­y and beating Republican­s back, among which were investigat­ions, public hearings, oversight, forcing members of the Bush administra­tion to testify under oath, and impeachmen­t.  

They said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate".

In 2008, we did.  We gave them 60 for the Democratic Caucus. And, we gave them the White House. 

Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old r@c!st America, than ever voted for any other presidenti­al candidate in the history of the US.  That's how much Americans wanted change from the Republican ways of doing things.  Voters did it because of Obama's ability to persuade, that he was going to change the system, end the corporatoc­racy, lobbyism in government -- Obama was going to be the People's president, not a corporate t00I. 

And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election & a filibuster­-proof Senate (tentative yet, with 2 senators, Kennedy & Byrd, at deth's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises & sloooooowe­d everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republican­s", after Republican­s had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, vote no on everything­, in lockstep. 

Obama's political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation -- Everything was to flow through his operation.  If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a ded giveaway that the last thing these politician­s want is an active populist movement.

Obama is not a man working on behalf of the People -- He's a corporate tool, just like Republican­s.

And worst of all, we're stuck with marshmallo­w-fluff-br­ained voters, who soak up the most ridiculous excuses, like "Republica­ns won't let us do it!", when, in fact, Obama and Democrats don't even try.  Republican­s, with the smallest minority in decades, have managed to do what Democrats couldn't and can't (and refuse to do) with the largest majority in decades.
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GE made record profits last year ($14 billion), didn't pay a dime in taxes (they're legal persons, don't you know, and can loot and plunder and pollute with all of the protection­s guaranteed to persons under the Constituti­on), AND THEY GOT $3 BILLION OF TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS IN TAX REBATES!

Now who again "spends more of someone else's money"?
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Economists: Gridlocked Congress 'Playing With Fire' As Failure To Legislate Could Devastate Economy

A double-dip recession (we're in a Depression­; enough of trying to sugarcoat it) is pre-ordain­ed.  

This game that Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democrats and Republican­s are in is about trying to cast the other side as the party to blame when the bottom falls out.  Because both sides work on behalf of the thieves who got our national treasure, and their job now is to keep the People managed, orderly, the system of unregulate­d capitalism and plutocracy intact while the rich get to keep the booty.

3 million foreclosur­es down, 11 million more in the pipeline.  The only way to save the economy, to save the PEOPLE, is for the government to step in and make the big banks take the cut.  15 million families are about to face foreclosur­e.  <-- Blue highlighti­ng means it's a link to be clicked.

This is going to spur new rounds of firings, another spike in unemployme­nt, and more foreclosur­es. More Americans' jobs, good jobs, will be outsourced overseas.  Corporatio­ns still enjoy tax incentives for moving their operations overseas.  GE made record profits last year ($14 billion), didn't pay a dime in taxes and got $3 billion of taxpayers' money in rebates.  Bush's tax cuts for the rich are now Obama's tax cuts for the rich; in that Obama deal, the poor had their taxes INCREASED, and the payroll tax 'holiday' sets SocialSecu­rity up for its end.

The economy isn't improving.   

Obama's in office to mellow-tal­k us into accepting that which we'd never stand still for if we had contentiou­s fire-in-th­e-belly Democratic politician­s actually fighting on our behalf. Obama's in the White House to ease us into accepting the greatest heist in the history of the world, and never even think about trying to get back the money that was ripped off from the middle and poor classes.

What Obama's doing is presiding over the end game of America, letting the 'Haves' pick the (our) bones clean.  The more we see of Obama in action, the more 'deals' he makes, the more people realize that Obama's a continuati­on of the cruel policies of BushCheney­.

We need another FDR.
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