This Obama quote should be carved in stone somewhere

[HughBeaumont]

21. What makes us weaker . . ..

. . . is throwing out the public option to appease a bunch of RepubliDems, despite massive evidence that America really, REALLY needs this "inch" in order for it's uninsured citizens to survive.

What makes us weaker as a nation is when entrepreneurs cannot start a business or an overworked, underpaid and abused worker cannot leave his/her lousy job because of America's unspoken abomination of tethering a person's well-being and future to how gainfully they're employed and how much insurance they can AFFORD.

What's making us weaker is not "The Fed", not "strangling regulation" or "high taxes", but rather three decades of stagnating wages not being able to meet the skyrocketing costs of necessities (i.e. education, housing, transportation, groceries, utilities, health care, etc).

What makes us "bad for business" is not shutting up and doing exactly what your authoritarian corporate masters tell you to.

What drags us down is when there’s an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else, but your asshole Congress refuses to do anything about it in the name of political expediency and selfishness. Or because they're all pre-purchased. Or they're just assholes who still beLIEve Trickle Down works.






But hey, at least he's getting some fire for when he stomps the ever-loving shit out of Mister Quarter-Billion in November.