General Discussion

If Obama wants to save Social Security the best thing he can do is say he will veto anything that even smells like a cut, and take to the tv to tell seniors how the thieving republicans are trying to steal their money. That he and his whole damn family will lead hungry seniors and people on crutches through the streets with the Secret Service and the military to protect them against the Teabaggers, and camp around the place until we get something that works for the American people for a change.

Compromise is what happens to an immune system before the patient dies - it has no place here.

He should also suggest that IRS issue new guidelines relieving the wealthy of one of their tax breaks on carried interest, since a court has now ruled people who are paying only 20% instead of 39% are actually running the business.

Wanna read about it?

"A Chance to End a Billion-Dollar Tax Break for Private Equity" Here.

Will you be as quick to let us know when he gives his first public speech on the need to stop letting Mi$$ RobMe pay only 20% taxes on the money he doesn't stash away overseas, while the Walmart workers (of which there are over 500,000 making less than $25,000 a year) are subject to as high as 39%, if they happen to make enough?

Fannie and Freddie didn't cause the crisis. They came late to the game and were a minor player, and you should educate yourself on that - Wall Street took advantage of the trust the people had in them, just like the S&L officers did. We put them in jail, and there is no excuse good enough for the failure to even investigate them this time. When Obama stood in front of the bankers and said "I am the only one between you and the pitchforks" he handed these donors to this party a free pass. He should have directed the FBI to staff itself like they did in the Savings and Loan scandal and start investigating those bastards.

Instead Wall Street - who, btw, contributed heavily to the Democrats and his campaign, have not only been let off the hook, but have been profiting handily from money given them by a Republican Federal Reserve Chairman appointed by Obama, who keeps telling the growing number of people on food stamps and the people who are losing their fucking jobs that it is for "their own good". Go tell the nearly (and it will be soon) 10 million FAMILIES who were kicked out of their homes in foreclosure so the banks could steal money how great it is that none have been prosecuted, while people have DIED from the hardship this government has let them bring to hard-working Americans.

Excuses. Bullshit.

We have plenty of examples from history of politicians without a majority who could get things done that were good for someone other than the 1%. But for some, success is worth any price that SOMEONE ELSE has to pay.

As you say "Geez" - why the fuck can't the Democrats get the backs of the people being screwed, instead of making sure their donors made a record profit in the second quarter of this year?

As far as the rest of that crap, he inherited his first term from someone else, but he inherited this one from himself. So there is no one left to blame.

Sure, it's easy to get "something done" if you bend over for the bullies. Take a look at Chamberlain in the 40's. And how many people died for that mistake? Sometimes it doesn't matter what the odds are, one has to fight.

Believe what you want, but think about why she said this...

"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." Harriet Tubman