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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (132862)	4/9/2013 12:52:46 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

I wish that were true, but Obama is accelerating the income inequality in this country. QE by the Fed and failure to prosecute the super elite for their crimes, while buying their toxic debt assets from them at tax payer expense has been done under Obama's watch, NOT under any other President's watch. Obama is responsible, just as his predecessors are. Obama gets no free pass MM, I am going to put this in terms you might understand. The world has had a very bad recession.....almost as bad as a depression. The US did some stimulus; the EU went your way and did austerity. The US is winning but its a difficult road because the EU is punching way below its weight and the EU is an important consumer in the world. Obama is very concerned about the poor in this country but he is more concerned about the national economy because he knows if we got back into recession, its the poor that will suffer the most. Now you can stop expressing your faux concern about the next generation and and the poor, and just think thru what I posted. Really roll it around in your head.......let it sink in.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (132862)	4/9/2013 10:05:05 PM
From: John Vosilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Sounds like we need Bernie Sanders to run for president before it is too late.. MM do you agree with this response to that Poverty Spikes in America blog? Edward C. Robson April 9, 2013 at 2:40 pm I sadly agree that Obama has disappointed in the area of leadership, at least in the economic arena. Much like Jimmy Carter, I think he lacks the stomach for politics as the game is played today in Washington. Money is power, and the deck has gotten alarmingly stacked in favor of the shrinking set of haves. What is needed is, as this blogger says, redistribution of wealth and meaningful reform of financial markets. It is simply unacceptable for the workers, whose productivity has risen heroically, to reap zero benefit from their industry. Unacceptable for the nation’s treasure to be siphoned off into foreign banks, where it cannot circulate and create prosperity for those who produced it. Unacceptable for our democracy and constitution to be hijacked by the billionaires. What baffles me, though, is the profound stupidity of the Kochs and their ilk. How can they fail to grasp that their ultimate success will be the complete ownership of a failed state? Our infrastructure is not being maintained. Our schools are failing to teach students how to distinguish fact from opinion or science from superstition. Our civil servants–the ones who protect us from crime, fire, and natural calamities, collect our garbage, and keep planes from colliding–are being shamed and laid off. Small businesses stand little chance of growing when consumers have no money to spend. These problems will not be addressed as long as congressional Republicans remain convinced that their principles are more sacred than those of democracy. If they are, as it appears, owned by the financial cartel, then their handlers should–for their own sake–instruct them to return to the business of governing the country in a way that will allow us all to prosper. Log in to Reply