The dilemma of voting for president
Real News carries The Black Financial and Fraud Report with Bill Black, reminds us this election has many issues that we need to remind politicians to tackle:
And what did the—finally, the numbers that just came in in the New York Times article very recently that showed that—in the first year of recovery from the recession, which was taking place under President Obama, of the gains in income, 93 percent of those gains went to the top 1 percent in wealth. And we are in the greatest period of inequality measured since the Great Depression. And in terms of wealth, as opposed to income, the top 1 percent now have greater wealth than the bottom 90 percent of us in America.
So while we can justly criticize that Romney and Ryan would make inequality worse, under this administration inequality has reached record levels. And you can see from all of the inside story things that are coming out from Barofsky, from Connaughton, from Sheila Bair, that the programs have not—of the Obama administration have overwhelmingly not been designed to help regular people, as opposed to, in the infamous phrase of Timothy Geithner, the Treasury secretary, to foam the runways to protect the banks from crashing and burning.
We have two really bad choices.
We can choose:
Charasmatic but weak and incompetent
Strong but trending too far right.
So do we want to ride a merry-go-round or a wild roller coaster for the next four years?
Romney is vacillating, tax evading, LBO salesman.
US is toast with either.
The issue to me is Romney appointments to Supreme Court.
well, i don’t think O could have made much difference even if he was honest. which like all men who have no ability to think for themselves, he is not.
there is a kind of law of mass action. no doubt heavily influenced by the propaganda machine that creates conventional wisdom.
talk to the people and you will find what they believe… pretty much the republican talking points… and there is no way to talk them out of it. i am fairly sure that democrats are people who still believe the democrat talking points of the sixties, who think that was is important is race, sexism, abortion rights, peace on earth… all that good stuff… but largely irrelevant to the mass action which is pushing them into slavery to the financial interests.
even, as you have heard me say, the left is totally unable to understand what it is “fighting,” having adopted most of the conventional wisdom itself.
you are god,and I say that because guys like Brad Delong worship obama.even us simpletons realize obama is just another crony capitalist .I am not a romney supporter. but I voted for obama to prove I’am not racist.but if I vote for him this time I will prove I am a moron.
I worked for every President from Nixon to GWBush2nd. They all had really bad characteristics in terms of management and policy and all had some good programs or ideas that were implemented. This President is not any worse than the majority of those I worked for. By comparison to his predecessor, he’s at least acceptable in most regards. Romney is a Republican and has no interest in revealing anything about his intended policies that would make you not want to vote for him. At least you know what the incumbent did that you disagree with. This is not a thrilling endorsement of the President. It is what it is. At least we haven’t started any more wars. That’s better than nothing. NancyO
Just watched Bill Moyers. He had on Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland, author of the new book Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.
The inequality is worse than the 93% to the top 1%. As they put it, the millionairs are feeling resentment toward the billionairs. People are getting tired of the super to big to fail banks never losing meaning the rest below are struggling to compete.
They noted that 37% of the post recession gains went to the top 0.01%. This is just an amazing number.
It was a great interview.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-plutocracy-rising/
There has been no mandate from the people to take any action against the titans that are destroying us. Congress has dismantled every attempt to inject any kind of common sense into our financial markets or our fiscal situation. We the people will not stand for any sacrifice on our part to help our country. What we need is a new Norquist to make all candidates pledge to institute the top vote getters in Budget Hero.