That's a question Roger Bybee at In These Times asks since most liberal mainstream politicians and pundits' inequality narrative deliberately excludes those issues.<< MORE >>
The segment asks Obama to "ditch the deal with the banks" and invites readers to email Obama with the message: "No sweetheart deals in the State of the Union for big banks. "
Here's just an example of what you'll find<< MORE >>
From abandoning EFCA to creating a travesty called a Jobs Council dominated by corporate executives headed by Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE that sends American jobs overseas and pays little in taxes, this corporatist DINO president continues to deceive working class Americans. << MORE >>
Yet, GOP and DINO administrations during the last thirty years caused or helped maintain destructive policies that changed government of, by, and for the people into government of, by, and for the wealthy few. << MORE >>
The following are excerpts from Richard (RJ) Eskow at Campaign for America's Future'spiece: "Today's visionary: Dr. King's insights for a 21st century movement.<< MORE >>
Some Davids representing the 99% are trying to fight the inequality and unfairness that the Goliaths, the rich corporations among the 1%, are inflicting on rest of the people in the US, making government of, by, and for the people a shameful mockery.<< MORE >>
Last month, 200,000 jobs were added, according to the Labor Department. And today mainstream media hopped to their role as corporate cheerleaders with descriptive phrases like upbeat jobs report, jobs picture brightened, economic recovery gains momentum and other misleading drivel masking the still grim reality of massive unemployment in this country.<< MORE >>
There are other more important issues out there such as the following from Jon Ryan at New Deal 2.0 about FDR style proposals to solve our big problems.<< MORE >>
The Economic Policy Institute features eleven charts that focus on "on the issues of unemployment, wealth, income, budgets, and public investment." It's called the 2011 economy illustrated.
Here's an example: << MORE >>
The American electorate continues to elect rich candidates and incumbents who are part of the wealthy few 1% who have no consideration or empathy for the struggling people of the 99%. Given the right wing Supreme Court's glorification of corporate personhood, and corporate control of those in Congress, elected office seems to have become the sole property of the rich.<< MORE >>
The US is in the grip of a 21st century Great Depression thanks to thirty years of anti-common good, pro-wealthy few GOP policies and Democrats forsaking their common good principles and allowing DINOs, mimicking Republicans, to take over the party. The result: the tsunami of economic inequality and joblessness battering many of the 99% and the plight of almost half the people in this country struggling in poverty or near poverty. << MORE >>
And if that wasn't horrible enough the following contained in the Washington Post article showed the egregious disdain and disrespect the Air Force apparently had for these soldiers and their families:<< MORE >>
As Occupy Wall Street protesters nationwide are pepper sprayed, mistreated, beaten, and arrested by the one percent's militarized police (aided and abetted by the federal government), Obama's Justice Department "has decided that holding Wall Street executives criminally accountable is too difficult a task."
Massive economic inequality, unfairness, and unemployment has become the norm in this country. It's the OWS movement that has spotlighted these realities. But this center right administration and Democratic Party have ignored or downplayed these realities which has exacerbated the suffering of struggling regular Americans, the result by thirty years of GOP administrations' protection of the wealthy few and corporations and Democratic administrations acting like Republicans.<< MORE >>
I included the following in FYII on September 7: "Is the government conspiring to kill the Post Office or the postal unions, or both? Since 2006, Bush's Republican Congress deliberately created a poison pill to destroy the Post Office and postal unions.<< MORE >>
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 120,000 jobs were added in November and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.6%.
Hold off on the celebration. << MORE >>