Daily Topics - Thursday December 15th, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: American workers are losing $5000 per year to greedy CEOs - what can be done?
Hour Two: What's up with the new Ron Wyden/Paul Ryan unholy alliance? Carl Wolfson, AM 620 KPOJ / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - scientists discover a new reason "an apple a day keeps the doctor away!"
Hour Three: The return of "debtor's prisons"...in America?! Marie Diamond, Think Progress
Comments
#2
So DRichards what happens after Obama is dumped?
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#3
Re: What happens if Obama is dumped?
It seems to me that it will pretty much be the same old same old.
Neither the Republican nor Democratic parties represent the average American, and they engage in a false dog-and-pony show to distract us from the fact that they both serve the same masters.
#4
Well I'm not sure I buy into the same old same old concept. I think there is quite a difference between who Obama nominated to the Supreme Court vs who Bush nominated for instance. But if it is same old same old with or without Obama... then I still don't see any reason to encourage the business overlords with rewarding those who openly support them with office. Thats like saying, you know what we the common people are perfectly OK with your corrupt practices, rather than the people saying screw you and you're deregulation, we're voting for someone who says he's against it, and we're going to push him for it.
I don't have high expectations of Obama, or any democratic politician that might take his place... but I do have expectations. I don't have expectations with a Republican't, I have fears. So Republican'ts = Fear, and the only thing we have to Fear is Fear (or Republican'ts) itself.
You can't win you're way if you give up. I'm not going to give up the control of government to open deregulation... I can't afford it.
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#5
...This is nothing new, sadly -- just an extention of what we've seem startng a couple of months into the Obama administration. I won't belabor the point, but this is why "The Protester" (and yes, I'm including the rank and file of the Tea Party along with Occupy Wall Street) is Time's person of the year. Because there's no other recourse to correct this sad state of affairs other than taking to the streets, when the leaders are so far removed from both the people and from the nation's core values. Look at the Patriot Act -- it's unpopular on both ends of the political spectrum, and yet lawmakers routinely extend it. Look at the 2012 election. Don't like the idea of a president who wants to detain Americans indefinitely or order the assassination of citizens? Sure, you could vote for the only one candidate who opposes that, in Ron Paul, but Paul would carry a ton of awful baggage along with his flouride-frightened pals from the John Birch Society into the White House. Who wants that?
It's not the parties, or the president. It's the system, and it needs to be changed. "Thank" our cowardly leader, Barack Obama, for proving that for once and for all.
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President Obama Richly Deserves to Be Dumped
By John R. MacArthur
As evidence of a failed Obama presidency accumulates, criticism of his administration is mounting from liberal Democrats who have too much moral authority to be ignored.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29988.htm