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In reply to the discussion: ''Looking Forward'' not only cleared war criminals Bush and Cheney, but the Banksters, as well. [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)When given the choice between meeting the expectations of those who voted for him and those who called him a socialist, he went the safe root and did all he can to make himself into the friend of capital. Consider Larry Summers who wanted to go into history as the Fed Chair who made Quanititative Easing easy for the lasting friends he'd make. Some of the crew working feverishly to strengthen the, uh, middle class must think so, as well: Jacob Lew and Penny Pritzker, seeing how their employment record shows them siding with management 99-percent of the time.
A friend of mine with a PhD has devoted his career to making the City of Detroit, specifically, and the world, in general, a better place for those with less -- working in a not-for-profit community group that provides job training for the most in need -- the unskilled, long-term unemployed. When the agency he was with let him go -- from lack of funding -- he and his family lost their home. The banksters didn't even have the deed, it didn't matter.
Another friend of mine lost his brother in Iraq, an Army physician murdered by a fellow soldier who went nuts. For what?
"Angry" is not the word: "revolted" is starting to come close, but that's not it either.
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