Reply #44: Those are well and good, but what about.....................

[Morereason]

the sick losing their houses over medical bills...

what about our "free trade" policies that destroy families throughout the globe...

What about the "megopolies" that have been allowed to completely decimate entire realms of business opportunities for the average joe, and use pricing policies and requirements to keep them out of competing?

what about the continuing strained nature of our workplaces, as we fight each other over turf more and more, and the true lack of opportunity for much of the public(that is being covered over by manipulated statistics)...

what about the massive use of public monies to propagandise and confuse our own public with planted stories and bloggers?

what about allowing and even encouraging (tax breaks) corporate money and special interests to run their own propaganda machines?

what about the idologies that ignore the truth of the middle class and seek instead to propagandise the population to believe that by becoming poorer and giving more breaks to the rich we will instead benefit?

The "centrists" will continue these ideologies, although with a "kinder gentler" side, nice little programs to help a few.

The "centrists" will moderate government encouragement of "globalism", but will allow megacorps to continue the same killer policies throughout the planet

The "centrists" will up the minimum wage while having nothing to say about the loss of our family holidays as the megacorps continue to force lower wrung employees to work through Thanksgiving and Christmas, destroying their family balance for a few more bucks.

The centrists will not introduce legislation that will make it illegal for the growing number of companies to work their employees without paid vacation, or any vacation at all, as has been demonstratively growing in recent years.

The "centrists" might bring average income up, but likely while the average workweek also climbs, as during Clinton's terms.

The "centrists" will not likely make significant changes to our nasty system of credit reporting, credit collecting, consumer "spying", and usery, where the consumer is often ripped off and the poor are forced more and more to pay more than the upper incomes for necessaries and utilities. (check out CNN for a good comparison of consumer rights that other developed countries have in place in this respect).

It will not be the "centrists" that move our transportation network away from single cars and into significant mass transit

It will not be the "centrists" that change Social Security into a needs based program that truly takes care of all needy seniors.

The "centrists" will not make significant policy changes to resolve the huge and growing homeless epidemic in our country!

Moving to the center may help out a few of us that are on the lower wrung of the middle class, and take a bit of the sting our of a few of the losses we have experienced in recent years. But the "centrists" will do little to resolve the severe underlying issues that are eating away at the least amongst us, and that are eroding and destroying our nations bounty, and our nation's heritage.