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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: bentway who wrote (243638)1/31/2014 2:09:46 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 542688
 
He is not doing all he can. Never has, because if he had, it would have started a war. But it needed to be done. We elected him to start a war e.g. break up the banks. Change you can believe in implies a war.

We needed an MLK, TR or FDR and we thought that was what we were getting. They all fought. He never fought.

I have a lot of experience doing what he needed to do.

The plutocrats must be brought under control, not looked to for answers. There are no answers there.

When he abandoned the outside game and disbanded his army he sealed all our fates. We were strong then.

If he was doing all he could he would have appointed Stiglitz and Krugman, and Howard Dean and Westly Clark and other top liberals. Robert Reich, Volker, Romer and on and on.

But he knew they would want to break up the banks, fight for single payer, indict Wall street criminals and confront the military and cause all sorts of trouble and he wanted no trouble.

So he took the easy way out. And he got rolled badly.

We need to fight the CEO's and plutocrats. And we need to use government to do that.

It is not OK Bentway that 95% of all the gains since 08 went to the top 1%. And it was not necessary by any stretch of the imagination.

Does anyone really want to defend all the money since 08 going to the top 1% was OK and could not be avoided? That Obama had no power to prevent that.
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