Reply #7: Kick, good insight into Kucinich on a varirty of topics.

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"...LA FREE PRESS: How do you hope to make a change when basically you have the entire corporate state against you?

KUCINICH: I don’t take that personal. You have to show people that acceleration of wealth upwards is not in their interest. Various Americans have lost their homes because of the corruption on Wall Street and the indifference of the Federal Reserve. They lost it through sub prime loans that shouldn’t have been written in the first place. They lost it because the government was a cop that went off the beat while the Security Exchange Commission and hedge funds were booking huge values from people writing these mortgages without documentation and every one is making money off the increased value for the investors, more loans booked, more investors you have, the more the portfolio value grows. People make a lot of money and nobody can pay these things off and everything unravels. Oil companies are ripping off the American people; the government is pocketing profits. We’re at war for oil.
My responsibility is to help people make the connections to the reality of how this affects their own life. I have the ability to do that because of my life experience, because of the way I grew up, because I understand what people go through, because I know that for most people having a roof over their head is what’s important..."