Reply #31: What? Who do you think helped to push unemployment so high?

[Armstead]

If Democrats had not been complicit in enabling corportists, we would not be in this mess.

They helped the corporatists hollow out the American economy and job base by pushing for "free trade" globalization and pushing American jobs and investment overseas. They stripped regulations and opened the door to the excesses that led to the crash of tghe financial system.

Are you saying the Democrats should do nothing to reform this mess, and turn to the same people who put us here?

The economic morass did not start with Bush Jr. If the Democfrats had not been so corporate in the 90's, Bush would not have had such an easy time putting the final n ails in the economic coffin.

The only way tro avoid a "tidal wave" in 2010 is for Democrats to take a stand on the side of average Americans against entrenched corporate oligarchs and mean it.

And before you trot out the "can't be anti-business" mantra, I emphasize that I include small and decent medium sized businesses among average Americans who are getting steamrolled by Corporate Oligarchs and policies that work against true free enterprise.