Reply #190: Your perspective is wrong .....

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DADT -- like ERA -- is an issue of Human Rights --

EXACTLY what "jobs" and the "economy" are about in our struggles against elites and

corporatism.

If Russ Feingold is losing it has to do with elites controlling our elections --

mostly with money, because the only way the right wing rises is through political violence and lies.

And, contrary to Rolling Stone's enthusiasm, we do not have Universal Health Care which --

btw, 76% of Americans wanted -- i.e., single payer-government run health care! In fact,

Catholics also wanted single payer/government run health care by majorities of 73% -- and 83%

when Latinos/Latinas are included. Not only that, Catholics also wanted reproductive care

included -- including simple CHOICE by 51%. Every other nation has Universal Health Care for

its citizens. We are the wealthiest nation in the world and yet we hear we can't afford it!

Iraq was not a "blunder" ... it was based on right wing lies.

And, thanks for the tax cuts! However, every dollar any American had pre-Bush is now worth

about 50 cents -- tops 60 cents! And so far we have not seen an end to the Bush tax cuts for

the wealthy.

When capitalism fails due to its own corruptions and crimes -- it should be permitted to fail.

And the government should take over the corporation and its employees and run it.


And given your confidence in Obama and this administration, perhaps you want to explain these

two counter examples of a pro-corporate agenda in the White House .... ?


Both articles were posted previously by other DU'ers, btw --

Rahm .... crowing about preserving "private health care industry" ... business s/b grateful!

8/12/10


Here is the quote: ”In a Thursday interview, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel argued that rather than recoiling against Obama, business leaders should be grateful for his support on at least a half-dozen counts: his advocacy of greater international trade and education reform open markets despite union skepticism; his rejection of calls from some quarters to nationalize banks during the financial meltdown; the rescue of the automobile industry; the fact that

the overhaul of health care preserved the private delivery system;

the fact that billions in the stimulus package benefited business with lucrative new contracts, and that financial regulation reform will take away the uncertainty that existed with a broken, pre-crash regulatory apparatus.

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B2F85DDF-18...




AND ... posted at DU 9/19/10

WASHINGTON — Pressed by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday assured drug makers that the administration stood by a behind-the-scenes deal to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an agreed-upon $80 billion.

Drug industry lobbyists reacted with alarm this week to a House health care overhaul measure that would allow the government to negotiate drug prices and demand additional rebates from drug manufacturers.

In response,the industry successfully demanded that the White House explicitly acknowledge for the first time that it had committed to protect drug makers from bearing further costs in the overhaul. The Obama administration had never spelled out the details of the agreement.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/health/policy/06insur...