Don't Drink the Kool-Aid
<cite>Barach Obama Is Not A Liberal
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Does it really matter anymore who are the Republicans and who are the Democrats? It is the same moneyed special interests. They are all in the same club. And their leader is Barach Obama.
The amount of money raised for Obamas' reelection campaign in just three months, as of July 11th, 2011, was $86 million dollars and is almost twice as much as the previous record of $50 million for funds raised for reelection by George W. Bush in the 3rd quarter of 2003. Obama raised more than the DNC was able to raise. (Total raised by all of the Republicans running only came to $36 million and of that Romney raised over $18.2 million) Patrick Martin of the ICFI writes, "President Obama is the first choice of Wall Street and the American super-rich", that "Obama broke all previous records for fund raising." Yes, he did. He is the darling of the rich.
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Obama is no Liberal. Obama is no Socialist. It would be far better for Americans if he was. Obama the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is the PEACE president, which is why he started a war of his own.
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Another war with drone attacks, which are little more than cowardly, cold-blooded mass murder. If we support Obama, we support mass murder. If we support the blowing up and shredding to pieces of "our enemies" that means killing children and innocent civilians every time a mission is flown and everyday soldiers go out on patrol, day after day, week after week, month after month - and it has been year after year we are supporting the policies of Barach Obama and it is wrong.
He answers to his wealthy puppet masters. Wars are good for their profits. And if huge TAX concessions (including those cuts in social security, medicare and eliminating medicaid) are not made to the rich ruling elite he wants us to believe he can't pay the U.S. debt.
No increases in taxes with reductions in social welfare and cuts in earned entitlements like Medicare and Obama, who is leading the assault on Americans (the rest of us), by these (fascist) ruling elite threatens us by claiming without the concessions, the government won't be able to cover the payments on those earned entitlement programs.
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The U.S. Treasury will choke up. Interest on U.S. bonds won't be paid. The U.S. won't be able to borrow money.
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Who are these ruling elites?
Ruling elite: - That group that is the most influential and prestigious stratum in a society. The ruling elite has nearly exclusive political, economic, and military control of the society in which they live. See C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite. (The controversy concerning "ruling elite" and "ruling class" should be mentioned here. Many radical non-Marxists, following C. Wright Mills, have conceptualized those who govern American society as an "elite," while Marxists have stuck to a more class-oriented analysis employing the concept "ruling class." G. William Domhoff has suggested a "compromise," a "ruling class" that operates "technically" through a "ruling elite." - G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967) and The Higher Circles (New York: Vintage Books, 1971).
"The ruling class is the politically active component of the owning class, the top captains of finance and policy who set the standards for investment and concentration of capital at home and abroad... Their overall economic domination and their campaign contributions, media monopoly, high-paid lobbyists, and public relations experts regularly predetermine who will be treated as major political candidates and which policy parameters will prevail... Their wealth serves their power, and their power serves their wealth." (author, political and social commentator, Dr. Michael Parenti)
Workers in America are a slave labor class and they don't even know it. They often feel it, but they are perpetually brainwashed by media distortions while the greatest heist of workers by the ruling elites is going on right before their eyes. And, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Congress, puppet masters for the rich pushed through bailouts from companies "too big to fail" with barely a whimper of protest from the masses. And bad debts from irresponsible Wall Street speculators were quietly transferred onto the backs of the working class. The rich ruling class are proving again to be the mortal enemy of the working and middle class.
An aristocracy of the rich _ruling elites_ conducted the biggest heist of the American People ever - in the history of the United States. These greedy Wall Street super-rich capitalists transferred their bad debts onto the backs of the rest of us.
If Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are now at risk it is because these irresponsible captains of American industry were too greedy; these same businesses that squeezes American workers to work harder and longer for less and then fires them - and think nothing of moving their companies overseas where labor costs are lower in spite of the despair and impoverishment it has caused Americans. And the consequence of lost jobs caused the destruction of needed social programs, of Medicaid which is now impossible to get in some localities and disintegration of public transportation and infrastructures, education programs cut, loss of housing and unaffordable housing.
If They Think Social Security is Really a Problem, Which It Is Not
ELIMINATE THE CAP ON INCOME on payroll taxes
Social Security is not broken. There are demographic concerns say those who warn us of its eventual demise, but an increase in population also means an increase in money collected in payroll taxes. Besides, raising the $106,000 cap upward (or simply removing it altogether) so those who make more can pay more would fix it (just chuck it) and even if nothing is done it is good for another 30 years - without doing anything. To suggest otherwise, which has been the line of Republicans and the Tea Party is nothing less than a duplicity because I cannot seriously believe they are that clueless.
They say there is no money. Well there was money for the bail outs. Why not bail out people, not businesses which never put those same people back to work. There is money for bail outs but not for needs, not for people who need to survive. But there was money for banks, trillions of dollars for big business and banks - and loans and there were guarantees from the U.S. Treasury, from the Federal Reserve so the super rich could keep their property and the means to enslave workers and the poor.
"A tiny portion of the population controls the lion's share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse." (Author, political and social commentator, Dr Michael Parenti)
And we have a president who willingly is ready to compromise away programs he promised not to touch, that sustain seniors who don't vote for him anyway - and the poor, who don't vote much anyway and he is currying favor with the rich and willing to make compromises to the Republican Party and Tea Party while stealing from groveling serfs: the working class, and seniors already on social security - and from a very rapidly dwindling middle class until there is none. The driving force behind cutting Medicare and Social Security is Barach Obama. Obama pretended to be a progressive in 2008. He is a fraud. Obama doesn't care what his base is saying because he has no opponent in 2012. He thinks all the Democrats will fall in line rather than vote for a Republican. He may just be surprised. A dark horse Independent may yet emerge.
Obama even proposed spending cuts greater than the ones demanded by Congressional Republicans. He favors a rise in taxes by cutting loopholes to corporations while cutting the budget on important life-sustaining programs for the middle classes and the disabled. We know where these cuts are going to be. The changes will include a means test for Medicare. And Medicaid will be eliminated where it isn't already.
What is Barach Obama doing? He is rewarding those who befriended him, doing whatever they demand of him and he punishes those who defy him.
What should we expect from this president who is not a liberal or a socialist. Where is hope and change now?<dd>Hank Roth</dd>
<cite>Barach Obama Is Not A Liberal
</cite>
Does it really matter anymore who are the Republicans and who are the Democrats? It is the same moneyed special interests. They are all in the same club. And their leader is Barach Obama.
The amount of money raised for Obamas' reelection campaign in just three months, as of July 11th, 2011, was $86 million dollars and is almost twice as much as the previous record of $50 million for funds raised for reelection by George W. Bush in the 3rd quarter of 2003. Obama raised more than the DNC was able to raise. (Total raised by all of the Republicans running only came to $36 million and of that Romney raised over $18.2 million) Patrick Martin of the ICFI writes, "President Obama is the first choice of Wall Street and the American super-rich", that "Obama broke all previous records for fund raising." Yes, he did. He is the darling of the rich.
<cite>
Obama is no Liberal. Obama is no Socialist. It would be far better for Americans if he was. Obama the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is the PEACE president, which is why he started a war of his own.
</cite>
Another war with drone attacks, which are little more than cowardly, cold-blooded mass murder. If we support Obama, we support mass murder. If we support the blowing up and shredding to pieces of "our enemies" that means killing children and innocent civilians every time a mission is flown and everyday soldiers go out on patrol, day after day, week after week, month after month - and it has been year after year we are supporting the policies of Barach Obama and it is wrong.
He answers to his wealthy puppet masters. Wars are good for their profits. And if huge TAX concessions (including those cuts in social security, medicare and eliminating medicaid) are not made to the rich ruling elite he wants us to believe he can't pay the U.S. debt.
No increases in taxes with reductions in social welfare and cuts in earned entitlements like Medicare and Obama, who is leading the assault on Americans (the rest of us), by these (fascist) ruling elite threatens us by claiming without the concessions, the government won't be able to cover the payments on those earned entitlement programs.
<cite>
The U.S. Treasury will choke up. Interest on U.S. bonds won't be paid. The U.S. won't be able to borrow money.
</cite>
Who are these ruling elites?
Ruling elite: - That group that is the most influential and prestigious stratum in a society. The ruling elite has nearly exclusive political, economic, and military control of the society in which they live. See C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite. (The controversy concerning "ruling elite" and "ruling class" should be mentioned here. Many radical non-Marxists, following C. Wright Mills, have conceptualized those who govern American society as an "elite," while Marxists have stuck to a more class-oriented analysis employing the concept "ruling class." G. William Domhoff has suggested a "compromise," a "ruling class" that operates "technically" through a "ruling elite." - G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America (Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1967) and The Higher Circles (New York: Vintage Books, 1971).
"The ruling class is the politically active component of the owning class, the top captains of finance and policy who set the standards for investment and concentration of capital at home and abroad... Their overall economic domination and their campaign contributions, media monopoly, high-paid lobbyists, and public relations experts regularly predetermine who will be treated as major political candidates and which policy parameters will prevail... Their wealth serves their power, and their power serves their wealth." (author, political and social commentator, Dr. Michael Parenti)
Workers in America are a slave labor class and they don't even know it. They often feel it, but they are perpetually brainwashed by media distortions while the greatest heist of workers by the ruling elites is going on right before their eyes. And, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Congress, puppet masters for the rich pushed through bailouts from companies "too big to fail" with barely a whimper of protest from the masses. And bad debts from irresponsible Wall Street speculators were quietly transferred onto the backs of the working class. The rich ruling class are proving again to be the mortal enemy of the working and middle class.
An aristocracy of the rich _ruling elites_ conducted the biggest heist of the American People ever - in the history of the United States. These greedy Wall Street super-rich capitalists transferred their bad debts onto the backs of the rest of us.
If Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are now at risk it is because these irresponsible captains of American industry were too greedy; these same businesses that squeezes American workers to work harder and longer for less and then fires them - and think nothing of moving their companies overseas where labor costs are lower in spite of the despair and impoverishment it has caused Americans. And the consequence of lost jobs caused the destruction of needed social programs, of Medicaid which is now impossible to get in some localities and disintegration of public transportation and infrastructures, education programs cut, loss of housing and unaffordable housing.
If They Think Social Security is Really a Problem, Which It Is Not
ELIMINATE THE CAP ON INCOME on payroll taxes
Social Security is not broken. There are demographic concerns say those who warn us of its eventual demise, but an increase in population also means an increase in money collected in payroll taxes. Besides, raising the $106,000 cap upward (or simply removing it altogether) so those who make more can pay more would fix it (just chuck it) and even if nothing is done it is good for another 30 years - without doing anything. To suggest otherwise, which has been the line of Republicans and the Tea Party is nothing less than a duplicity because I cannot seriously believe they are that clueless.
They say there is no money. Well there was money for the bail outs. Why not bail out people, not businesses which never put those same people back to work. There is money for bail outs but not for needs, not for people who need to survive. But there was money for banks, trillions of dollars for big business and banks - and loans and there were guarantees from the U.S. Treasury, from the Federal Reserve so the super rich could keep their property and the means to enslave workers and the poor.
"A tiny portion of the population controls the lion's share of the wealth and most of the command positions of state, manufacturing, banking, investment, publishing, higher education, philanthropy, and media... these individuals exercise a preponderant influence over what is passed off as public information and democratic discourse." (Author, political and social commentator, Dr Michael Parenti)
And we have a president who willingly is ready to compromise away programs he promised not to touch, that sustain seniors who don't vote for him anyway - and the poor, who don't vote much anyway and he is currying favor with the rich and willing to make compromises to the Republican Party and Tea Party while stealing from groveling serfs: the working class, and seniors already on social security - and from a very rapidly dwindling middle class until there is none. The driving force behind cutting Medicare and Social Security is Barach Obama. Obama pretended to be a progressive in 2008. He is a fraud. Obama doesn't care what his base is saying because he has no opponent in 2012. He thinks all the Democrats will fall in line rather than vote for a Republican. He may just be surprised. A dark horse Independent may yet emerge.
Obama even proposed spending cuts greater than the ones demanded by Congressional Republicans. He favors a rise in taxes by cutting loopholes to corporations while cutting the budget on important life-sustaining programs for the middle classes and the disabled. We know where these cuts are going to be. The changes will include a means test for Medicare. And Medicaid will be eliminated where it isn't already.
What is Barach Obama doing? He is rewarding those who befriended him, doing whatever they demand of him and he punishes those who defy him.
What should we expect from this president who is not a liberal or a socialist. Where is hope and change now?<dd>Hank Roth</dd>
