while the misery index has soared to its highest rate in 28 years!
the labor participation rate has gone steadily downward in the 3rd Bush term.
Yet cluelessly obama touts the 'success' of his policies, while 15% of Americans remain unemployed, indeed over 1.2 million gave up looking for work last month.
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No argument here. So tell me, do you know which congressional primary candidates Dennis Kucinich and Bernie Sanders are encouraging us to support?
Oh my god. Look TP, why don't you aruge a point instead of parrott statistics?
We are the smartest leftists on the internet. We know these facts. It is nothing new. What we don't want is your insane Libertopia that has never been tried and never will work.
More of the same dumbass crap. Go away because we have heard all you have to say and it adds up to nothing.
Wow, I am convinced. So lets get behind the people who are pushing to return to the Bush policies harder, like Herr Dokter Paul and the TeaParty, so we can accelerate the drive to third world status.
The Reagan administration gave us the life of Riley on credit. We whooped it up for over a decade on easy access credit and lived like there was no tomorrow. No wonder he's an American hero. Well it turns out that there was a tomorrow and we're dealing with the hangover now. Obama is the man in charge while we're all trying to deal with this massive hangover and therefore he gets the credit for how shitty we all feel. Kick him to the curb and bring in another life of the party with a wallet full of credit cards. We'll have to deal with another massive hangover somewhere down the road but until then we just want to have our "good times" and leave it to some liberal a-hole to force medicine down our throat when the party's over.
Bush's third term is coming along as expected. I expect his 4th term will push us over the edge.
2016 will be a turning point....a rejection of both wings of the Corporate Party...Dems and Repugnants. A merging of resource, environmental and economic collapse wil bring things to a head.. People will finally get that a corporate state run on the behalf of transnationals and financiers can't solve problems facing the nation. Solutions contradict their own narrow interests.
. Unfortunately, by then the current 5 year window to reverse global warming will have expired. It will be irreversible..
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease".
We can appreciate that Obama and the Dems cannot overthrow the empire through the present system as it is corrupted by money. We can agree that the ideological frame of the American Century transcends party, although it manifests itself differently in the DLC than on the Religious and cultural conservative Right. We can appreciate that Obama and our elections cannot fulfill their rhetoric and promise without a change too big to get from this system. We can disagree about how more or less dangerous those closest to us are in maintaining the illusion compared to the virulent cult on the Right.
We can also wonder about the value of bemoaning our plight instead of doing what we can, and we will disagree about what we can do that matters. This is why I do not dispute Poly about the larger frame and the tragedy of majoring in minors where we look to incremental policy reforms while the world burns. Can we bring down the psychopaths before they bring us all down? Who knows? It does not look good when we encounter the utter insanity being prattled by the insane Right and add in what is taken as politically possible by the system reformers. But where is the powerful alternative that can make things new and possible?
Those with easy answers are either saints or fools. If they are saints, I trust they will be engaged in the work that matters instead of just preaching about the end of the world and decrying our sins. This is also why I encourage us to prepare for the work while working for the best. Most important of all is to keep our minds, eyes and hearts open to possibility instead of adopting the bitter and hopeless grumpiness of the cynic. I am all the way with Hedges on the power of love. It is our best hope and the real power in this world when we open ourselves to it.
I think that perhaps each has to find their own way where they can push for true change. In order to successfully do that, one has to know how things actually function. Out of that comes seeing the fantastic possibilities.
Even libertarians want change. They just don't know how social and economic systems function. Wanting to maintain failed primary economic/social structures, while not maintaining failed primary social/economic structures is foolhardy. They can't see that is their basic agenda..
Many progtressives aren't a whole lot different. Only the rhetoric on how to maintain failed primary social/economic strutures while not maintaining failed primary social/economic structures is different..
Arguing about which shade of lipstick to put on the pig may change the appearance of the pig....but it's still a pig. We can do better than that. We don't have to keep living in the pig sty. Clean out the poop, and it just gets filled up again. It's time to build a new house...minus the pig.
Retired Monk - "Ideology is a disease"
LOL..
TTP doesn't want Bush economics on one hand but then he alludes to more of Bush no-economic policy. And he thinks by just spouting some numbers, he knows how the market is supposed to function.
GO TAKE MACRO-ECONOMICS 101. When you have some market sensibility, come back and spew some thoughts on what needs to be done. Till then, don't waste my time.