Why doesn't President Obama ask America to call their Rep's and DEMAND taxes be raised on the RICH?

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7. Really don't know. I do wish he really were a groovy socialist like Hugo C.

Chavez's Fight Was Our Fight Too

Chavez Succeeded Where Obama Failed

by SHAMUS COOKE
CounterPunch MARCH 14, 2013

EXCERPT...

Chavez won elections because he was loved by the working and poor people of Venezuela. Chavez was loved by his people because he was a politician like none they had ever experienced. He was “their” politician, and he loved them.

And one doesn’t become the official politician of working people, the poor and downtrodden in an extremely poor country by using fancy words. Chavez backed up his big talk time after time, consistently overcoming barriers erected by the wealthy by taking bold action that benefited the majority of Venezuelans. Their hope in him was repeatedly renewed by action.

Inequality shrank under Chavez, poverty was dramatically reduced, education and health care improved, and illiteracy was eliminated. When the economy reeled from the 2008 global crisis, Chavez didn’t bail out the banks and pander to the wealthy, but increased social spending for the most vulnerable. When cataclysmic landslides threw hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans into homelessness, Chavez housed them all.

President Obama has nearly the exact opposite track record. The big banks remain the big winners in the Obama Administration, having been bailed out and then given an endless supply of cheap money via the Federal Reserve that has boosted their profits. All of this takes place while the job crisis grinds on for working people, creating an endless supply of austerity budgets on the city, state, and national level. When new jobs become available they are below a living wage.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/14/chavez-succeeded-where-obama-failed/

Hope and Change can't wait for four more years. They gotta start yesterday.