We are still trying to dig ourselves out of the Bush Recession. Of course that was just the icing on the utterly failed Republicon economic scheme. Pass fake free-trade agreements that allow outsourcing to the cheapest county, keep puking out the failed free-market Reaganomics crap and give corporate welfare to the Top 1% in the trillions.
Oh, and then blame whoever is in charge now. This is how Republicons roll folks. And now you can vote for a new, even worse Republicon plastic parasite: Mitler Robmee.
Blaming is a good pass time for those that don't take responsibility!
The housing crisis built on loans to low income earners who would have never gotten loans without government assistance. Now most are underwater or are out and will never have another chance to own a home again. What did our government do for them?
The student loan debacle! Is America going to bail out these college graduates?
What are the costs of the healthcare taxes? What will these new burdens do to unemployment?
The Obama administration has done wonders in killing the American Dream for the next generation. About 50% of recent college grads can't find a job, graduate with student loans that will financially burden them for life, face a world of few opportunities and intense competition, and inherit a national debt that is $5 trillion larger than just 4 years ago.
I teach at a major university, and it is very sad to see so many bright, well-educated graduates having to go home to live with their parents and take menial jobs with the burden of such huge student loans. It is a travesty!
Purely blaming the Obama administration is short-sighted and totally misses what the article was talking about. There's a lot of blame to go around including with you (as the article points out). Take off the big corporation blinders and wake up to the real problems!
And when President Reagan said to "Tax the man behind the tree", he was talking about you as your elders didn't want to pay taxes so you can pay them for them. Further Repuglicans exacerbated the problem by going to war while cutting taxes. You have to go back to the Civil War to find a Republican president going to war who raised taxes and let's pay for our war.
I guess we never had big corporations and rich people before now (FALSE). And the weather never changed (FALSE, just look at the dust bowl era and the Hurricanes of the 20s and 30s). And wealth is now evil (FALSE). The whole article sounds like the Communist Manifesto. Take everyone's money away and stop burning fossel fuels. That way we will return to the 1800s where life was good.
The dust bowl was not a global warming heat induced problem. It was mainly a problem with the lack of proper crop rotation and management. we no know much better farming techniques. In the 20s and 30s, the ice caps weren't melting. We had cold winters then. We do have better alternatives that would slow down the expansion of warming trends. Mankind's survival will be dependent on our ability to switch to clean renewable energy. Stop watching Fox. And yes, trickle down economics has NOT worked. It was the biggest con job the Republicans have ever pulled.
This country has been sliding down hill for some time, it's not like it just happened! And guess what, it isn't going to stop any time soon, I don't believe we've seen the worse yet! I can't believe this article, like the students didn't know this before!???
The really sad part of this is the students didn't know this.!!
Neither do most adults.!
Smokescreen after smokescreen is contantly appearing in the media to keep anybody from finding out; by corrupt politicians who practically turn themselves insideout to keep the real plots being uncovered.
There is so much going on behind closed doors; even the political creeps have a hard time keeping up with it.
If a bill has been being debated; hanging around long enough; Congress will pass it just to get rid of the aggravation.
Prime example: OBAMACARE
Not one Congressman or Senator knows what's really in this plan.
Even addlebrained Pelosi said "We have to pass it so we can find out what's in it".
Does this sound like anybody in Washington really cares about their constituents.???
The US is multiple TRILLIONS of dollars in debt; something the government has been unable to hide from the people.
But very few of us know why this is happening.
Not only has it been going on for some time; it IS going to continue and it is going to get MUCH worse if the American people continue to allow bought and paid for politicians to make behind-closed-door deals and **** taxpayers money down the rat-holes of countries which are our enemies.
Congress has no reason to pass legislation that will benefit the US and her people.
Their salaries, their raises, their healthcare plans and their pensions are untouchable.
A large part of Obama's goal is to destroy the Constitution.
Under his "leadership???" we have lost quite a few of our rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and if he is re-elected; we can expect more of the same.
Our government is both CORRUPT and BROKEN, and these crooked politicians will continue to try to bring the US to its knees as long as the people allow them to get away with it.
Apathy and ignorance of the real facts are the primary reasons for the decline of our country.
The entire US is being destroyed by the people who are really running this dog-and-pony show.
George Soros is at the top of this list, the one person who can yank more of Obama's strings than anybody else.
Add to this list big business, Wall Street, crooked banks and crooked politicians who back them up, drug companies, lobbyists, mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac etc. and the Federal Reserve are the ones really in control.
If we don't start to push back NOW, we might just as well resign ourselves to being trampled on further.!!!!!
We are all responsible for leaving a failed country and a collapsing world ecosystem to our kids. If you did nothing to stop the right wing corporate takeover of our society then you are guilty of complicity. Even now we could be creating jobs in repairing infrastructure, alternative energy and anti-big corporation business development. But the giant corporations and the Top 1% are against all that (and they own and run the government and elections) so we do nothing.
I suggested to my two Senators in Washington that the government "hire" returning vets to help re-build the US.
Many of our vets are unable to find jobs and are at risk of losing the roofs over their heads thanks to the government.
Not all of these returning vets are grunts.
Many of them were clerks, engineers, statisticians etc. and could be working on re-building the US and saving themselves at the same time.
What did the military do with all the money they are saving because we are no longer sending BILLIONS of dollars to Iraq and BILLIONS more to support the troops who fought and DIED there.???
The VA currently has a backlog of 900,000 claims.
By the time they process these claims, our vets will have either lost everything, have long grey beards or will have died.
This is no accident.
The longer the VA can hold these claims off, the less money they will have to pay out.
The government didn't waste any time deploying hundreds of thousands of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to be wounded, maimed or killed.
Now that these vets are back, the Pres, the DOD and the military want to pretend they never existed.
This is DESPICABLE.!!!!!
Cut all the "red tape".!!
Simplify the process and give the veterans their due.
The wife of the very first serviceman who was killed in Afghanistan is still; ten years later; fighting the VA to get what we and the government owe her.
AMERICA and AMERICANS FIRST.!!!!!
Now all we have to do is to get this across to a corrupt and uncaring government.!!!!!
Reminds me of the old Hee Haw Song:
Pain, despair and agony on me,
Deep dark depression,
Excessive Misery,
If it weren't for bad luck,
I'd have no luck at all.
Pain, despair and agony on me, AAAWWWRRRGGHH!
TimeToEvolve--We destroyed the earth's climate? You mean it's a done deal already? And if you are so knowledgeable perhaps you could go to, say china, and tell them how to clean up their air and water etc. Or do you do what you do where you can with no consequences so you can feel self righteous?
Too lengthily, too depressing for me to finish, anyway: "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For heavens sake, Martha, you clearly have no business lecturing anyone here on "growing up," as your ideas about what both socialism and "growing up" constitute are, it appears from your blunt, inchoate comment, quite, um...well, immature.
Are you yet another unthinking tool (and professionally mid-level corporate, perhaps?) of the oligarchs and corrupt politicians that seek to control the key aspects of our economy and political system, and if not, please tell us how--specifically, rather than glibly--in what ways we aren't now powerless against the corporations and their political sponsors and protectors, and how it is that the rest of us need to "grow up"?
Does the idea of psychological projection mean anything to you?
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Oh, and then blame whoever is in charge now. This is how Republicons roll folks. And now you can vote for a new, even worse Republicon plastic parasite: Mitler Robmee.
The housing crisis built on loans to low income earners who would have never gotten loans without government assistance. Now most are underwater or are out and will never have another chance to own a home again. What did our government do for them?
The student loan debacle! Is America going to bail out these college graduates?
What are the costs of the healthcare taxes? What will these new burdens do to unemployment?
I teach at a major university, and it is very sad to see so many bright, well-educated graduates having to go home to live with their parents and take menial jobs with the burden of such huge student loans. It is a travesty!
Neither do most adults.!
Smokescreen after smokescreen is contantly appearing in the media to keep anybody from finding out; by corrupt politicians who practically turn themselves insideout to keep the real plots being uncovered.
There is so much going on behind closed doors; even the political creeps have a hard time keeping up with it.
If a bill has been being debated; hanging around long enough; Congress will pass it just to get rid of the aggravation.
Prime example: OBAMACARE
Not one Congressman or Senator knows what's really in this plan.
Even addlebrained Pelosi said "We have to pass it so we can find out what's in it".
Does this sound like anybody in Washington really cares about their constituents.???
The US is multiple TRILLIONS of dollars in debt; something the government has been unable to hide from the people.
But very few of us know why this is happening.
Not only has it been going on for some time; it IS going to continue and it is going to get MUCH worse if the American people continue to allow bought and paid for politicians to make behind-closed-door deals and **** taxpayers money down the rat-holes of countries which are our enemies.
Congress has no reason to pass legislation that will benefit the US and her people.
Their salaries, their raises, their healthcare plans and their pensions are untouchable.
A large part of Obama's goal is to destroy the Constitution.
Under his "leadership???" we have lost quite a few of our rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and if he is re-elected; we can expect more of the same.
Our government is both CORRUPT and BROKEN, and these crooked politicians will continue to try to bring the US to its knees as long as the people allow them to get away with it.
Apathy and ignorance of the real facts are the primary reasons for the decline of our country.
The entire US is being destroyed by the people who are really running this dog-and-pony show.
George Soros is at the top of this list, the one person who can yank more of Obama's strings than anybody else.
Add to this list big business, Wall Street, crooked banks and crooked politicians who back them up, drug companies, lobbyists, mortgage lenders, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac etc. and the Federal Reserve are the ones really in control.
If we don't start to push back NOW, we might just as well resign ourselves to being trampled on further.!!!!!
Many of our vets are unable to find jobs and are at risk of losing the roofs over their heads thanks to the government.
Not all of these returning vets are grunts.
Many of them were clerks, engineers, statisticians etc. and could be working on re-building the US and saving themselves at the same time.
What did the military do with all the money they are saving because we are no longer sending BILLIONS of dollars to Iraq and BILLIONS more to support the troops who fought and DIED there.???
The VA currently has a backlog of 900,000 claims.
By the time they process these claims, our vets will have either lost everything, have long grey beards or will have died.
This is no accident.
The longer the VA can hold these claims off, the less money they will have to pay out.
The government didn't waste any time deploying hundreds of thousands of troops to Iraq and Afghanistan to be wounded, maimed or killed.
Now that these vets are back, the Pres, the DOD and the military want to pretend they never existed.
This is DESPICABLE.!!!!!
Cut all the "red tape".!!
Simplify the process and give the veterans their due.
The wife of the very first serviceman who was killed in Afghanistan is still; ten years later; fighting the VA to get what we and the government owe her.
AMERICA and AMERICANS FIRST.!!!!!
Now all we have to do is to get this across to a corrupt and uncaring government.!!!!!
Pain, despair and agony on me,
Deep dark depression,
Excessive Misery,
If it weren't for bad luck,
I'd have no luck at all.
Pain, despair and agony on me, AAAWWWRRRGGHH!
Are you yet another unthinking tool (and professionally mid-level corporate, perhaps?) of the oligarchs and corrupt politicians that seek to control the key aspects of our economy and political system, and if not, please tell us how--specifically, rather than glibly--in what ways we aren't now powerless against the corporations and their political sponsors and protectors, and how it is that the rest of us need to "grow up"?
Does the idea of psychological projection mean anything to you?