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In reply to the discussion: Is this a joke: 20 years? [View all]freshwest
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And a boatlaod of profiteers in every state who do want privatization is doing that. They don't need Obama to do that for them.
They want it because they are getting the lifestyle they feel they deserve off it and those are the people I see in local politics that have nothing to do with Obama but he's facing their officials.
He's no socialist, more's the pity, but too many people have taken the social safety net and the commons for granted and not been involved. They have left the work of managing them tp fall into the hands of those in their states who make money off hollowing out the commons.
They have convinced the voters it's a great thing. We have not done so. Obama has only gone for the most generic principles to keep people alive and to keep the plutocrats from taking it all as they planned this year.
Support what is working, keep on agitating, but the knee jerk anti-Obama screeds won't change anything at all. It's much bigger than him.