What? Have you not been reading the news? Obama is abolishing "don't ask, don't tell", for example. Bush did more to destabilize this country on every level and in every way possible than any president in a long time. The only thing he did was protect corporate irresponsibility and corruption and corporate interests in consolidating wealth and power...and get us into a war based on WMD and he left as the fruits of his "de-regulation" hit the news (financial collapse, for one)...what a fraud that we lapped up in the fear frenzy he played up. Scandalous....and now, after 2 years of trying to effect change in the most brutal and partisan environment that has existed for eons...we bitch from the sidelines like small, whiny, 2-year olds. Boehner states that he isn't for taxes on small business...excuse me? Who said anything about small business...we are talking about the extremely wealthy (individuals and corporations) - trying to add in a piece of revenue realized by individuals and corporations that was taken from those who made them their money. I tell my mother constantly - you made your money on the backs of people like me.....and now you live in fear of losing what you think belongs to you exclusively. Where is the gratitude? I was worked into the ground - when my company was purchased by an "international" company, all raises and bonuses stopped unless one was in the position to bring in at least 10 million dollars worth of business. They laid off so many people that when I was told to "delegate"...there was no one to delegate to. Scandalous. Yes, I burned out. And, given the economic crash, the jobs I was on dried up, and I was laid off. Corporate america is sitting on piles of money and profits are up...the irony in all this is despite the "corporate-friendly", "lack of accountability" model Bush agreed to....they still took themselves down from greed...and then the rest of us, in our fear and stupidity rescued them from their consequence. They are laughing all the way to the bank. It's all about the money, period.
--- On Mon, 7/25/11, Denise Evans <[email protected]> wrote: From: Denise Evans <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Will our Affirmative Action non-leading president get the US shut down? To: [email protected] Date: Monday, July 25, 2011, 9:11 AM The FDR clip is priceless and completely pertinent to today's situation...I wouldn't call it a "rant." --- On Sun, 7/24/11, Tom Pall <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tom Pall <[email protected]> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Will our Affirmative Action non-leading president get the US shut down? To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 7:57 PM We've had impasses on the US budget and debt ceiling before. Those were games of brinkmanship, IMO. This time, our non-leader president looks like he's helplessly taking us on the brink of disaster. I didn't bother to watch the FDR rant against the Republicans on Youtube someone posted here a few days ago. Blame what's happening on the Republicans all you want. FDR was a leader. A man with backbone, not a teleprompter slave. FDR stood up for what he believed in, even to the point of trying to pack the Supreme Court. Don't dare use FDR's words to describe or indict the Republicans or members of any other party to explain the current state of affairs. Obama and his wife got into college and law school because of Affirmative Action. Got hired because of Affirmative Action. Now we see just where the good intentions of /that/ program got us. Just what did Obama promise gays? What did he promise other groups? What about GITMO? It's said that Democrats start wars and Republicans finish them. Under Obama our civil liberties, like with the TSA and no warrant search and tapping, haven't been eroded. They've been sandblasted. Sandblasted in ways GWBush never thought possible. We voted for Hope and Change. We're about to get the change and fast. Got any spare change, Sir?
