FIRST-TIME JOBLESS CLAIMS JUMP AGAIN

This should not come as a surprise since America’s
manufacturing base has been outsourced. Despite
MSM continuously calling the current cataclysmic
financial meltdown a recession, the reality is that
we the people are in deep shit, while those
responsible
give themselves obscene multimillion dollar bonuses
with borrowed money now owed by taxpayers.
However, the important thing to keep in mind when
evaluating the hype that’s supposed to be news, is,
thanks to CHRIS HEDGES’ COLUMN:
“Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction”, the cat
is out of the bag. It’s no longer accurate to talk
about Democrats & Republicans because they are
both predatory parasites feeding on the carcass of
we the people. Bush3 continues to play good cop.
Volcker is brought in off the bench to finish the
game.

Here’s what the current Congress and President have done to make the Bush
mess worse.

Everyone believes Obama was handed a pile. Having a pile is not what has
turned the voters against Obama and the Dems. The public stopped supporting
Obama and the Dems, because Obama and the Dems did not support them.

Here are the facts about Obama and the Dems decisions:

1. Ignore previous Republican crimes, misdemeanors and profligacy in the vain
hope of ‘bipartisanship’ and establishing a precedent for future torture and
tyranny
?2. Support a stingy stimulus, half of what was needed and included one-thirds
tax breaks, increasing the deficit and further reducing the effects of the
stimulus by another one-third??
3. Kill the only option that would have slowed the cost of health care & led to
universal coverage?? (handing ‘reform’ over to Max Baucus and imaginary ‘bi-
partisanship
4. Accelerate the Bush bailout?? against the will of the American people and with
much wise advice to the contrary (from people who would not profit from the
bailouts or had already been involved in them)
5. Escalate a meaningless and fruitless war?? against all common sense and the
will of the majority of Americans
6. Gut real financial reform and substituted finger wagging and silly taxes and
‘fees??’
7. Not help people with bankruptcy and mortgages remediation, instead bailed
out the corporations that feasted on borrowers’ bones? and watched the
institutions raise fees and slow lending
8. Fiddled around, spent all our money on corporate bailouts and then called
for a ‘freeze’ – effectively, putting people last.

The above illustrates why Obama and the Dems lost the public. It’s not about
anything but really really bad decisions that took a bad situation and made it
worse by ignoring the needs of the people, giving their money to someone else
and leaving them holding the bag.

Yes, Obama got handed a pile, but he kept the same military advisors, same
financial advisors and refuse to lead in the public interest.

With respect to leading in the public interest, here’s what Obama had in his
pocket seven months ago:
The Dems continue to be aimed at the wrong target:

“A mere seven months ago (that would be around June 2009), The New York
Times/CBS poll found that 72% of Americans ‘supported a government-
administered insurance plan—something like Medicare for those under 65—
that would compete for customers with private insurers.’”

Now, if the Democrats can truly find the courage to vote for what the citizens
actually want, then they are on their way to re-election. HurraY!

(“Courage”? Is that what it takes to vote for what the citizens want? courage?
Wow, the corporations then do truly have them by the what do you call ‘ems.)

The ‘reform’ bill that no one wants is the result.