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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo Seriously - are DUers watching Ed Shultz having a fit about the
speech the one percent are demanding from the President- a healing speech on class an inequality
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/wall-street-obama_n_1471486.html
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One of the guests raised his hand; he knew how to solve the problem. The president had won plaudits for his speech on race during the last campaign, the guest noted. It was a soaring address that acknowledged white resentment and urged national unity. What if Obama gave a similarly healing speech about class and inequality? What if he urged an end to attacks on the rich? Around the table, some people shook their heads in disbelief.
I sort of don't understand why rich Wall Streeters can't just go visit the small apartments of normal New Yorkers to get a quick dose of feeling a lot better about themselves, but there you have it. Rich people be having their feelings all hurty! Over at the Plum Line, Greg Sargent has some disbelief to offload:
One wonders if there is anything Obama could say to make these people happy, short of declaring that rampant inequality is a good thing, in that it affirms the talent and industriousness of the deserving super rich.
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Bernie Sanders is on now
Ptah
(33,028 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)And that goes for the president too.
99Forever
(14,524 posts)... I wouldn't recommend holding your breath waiting for it to happen.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And was under threat of maybe not being able to afford his high rolling manhattan lifestyle.
malaise
(268,969 posts)This is damned madness.
RUMMYisFROSTED
(30,749 posts)That's what makes them Wall Streeters.
guitar man
(15,996 posts)They can stick their demands in their ass. I've had quite enough of their shit over the last 3 decades. They can all go piss up a rope