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This Demos-USA bankruptcy report is really interesting, and people should print it up and study it, if you didn't realize before that this is the real pattern of credit card debt. The statistics are really revealing, and show how people are suffering, and how they will probably never get out, and all because of predatory practices that used to be illegal. If this isn't a moral issue, then I don't know what is.
If anything shows the terrible damage the DLC has done to our party, besides helping Republicans to continuously attack "liberals," it is that this once-central, core principle of the Democratic Party is now never referred to by any of them. "Framing," fundraising, getting media-savvy, this is what they have made of themselves; and what good are they?
Because of the crimes of the now-unregulated corporate world, the economy is suffering a totally disastrous undoing of the very elements that make it up, as the investment capital of rich people is moved here or there, with preference to undemocratic countries, with no protections for the people, the environment, the law. We here are witnessing the value of the dollar itself, not only plummeting but being replaced by other currencies on world markets--frightening, unheard of--and the actual number of jobs that exist in the U.S. has dropped, as whole industries outsource themselves to other countries, so that unemployed people will often not have even another job to choose from. Banking and lending regulations are gone, and there is no protection anymore from the abusive violations of the "money-lenders." The recent "History" Channel documentary on Franklin Roosevelt, as dishonest as it was, reminded me again of the difference between the great and moral FDR Administration and its fight against the Depression, and this buttfucking oil executive here, and the total failure to address anything. It is a living sin on the Republicans' heads. "..But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens--who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day. I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago. I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children. I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions. I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope--because the Nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little" (Second Inaugural, Jan. 20, 1937). Imagine how different the present world might have been, how much progress might have already been made on poverty and debt, if the saints of the Roosevelt Administration, Eleanor Roosevelt and all the rest, had been here, instead of us being left to the wolves themselves. We do not have a "President," a "Vice-President," and "Administration," etc,--we have only a huge group of corporate oil, etc. executives, helping themselves. God help us; we are left alone here, and then they lie about why people are in such debt...
Why are Democrats not fighting on this issue--are they so rich, so corporate, so Republican/DLC, that they don't even want to know our problems anymore? The nation suffers now as much as it did then, but then we had people acting, working to solve these things, putting laws in place that had protected us, and the economy, until now. Official Democrats need to realize that the issue of poverty and debt are once again mainstream, central issues in this country, not affecting only a few anymore, and that decriminalizing all corporate behavior is the cause of it all. This should be once again our cause, and describe it correctly, the way people are actually suffering it out here in the real country, as this report, and others, did. If we would ever, once again, show that we understood this national problem by describing what it is and how to solve it, as FDR did, as Lyndon Johnson did, etc., we would have the whole country rallying behind us to victory. Instead we get DLC "framing" and people who have no intention of doing anything except for corporate donors. Remember that the middle class and poor were hurt by Clinton, too. We need real Democrats to restore the justice and health of our nation, only we can and will. We need to speak up and demand a return to the real Democratic Party, and save the most vicious attacks for the real criminal villian; as always--THEM (Repubs).
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