
It took place at Smithfield Foods in Tar Heel, North Carolina where workers, who toil under brutal work conditions and sought justice and dignity, approved the first union contract at that plant, and claimed victory over employer tyranny.<< MORE >>
While this appalling state of affairs is ongoing, and regular Americans keep struggling, even more money is being spent on expanding the imperial presence of the US military and State Department garrisons at the expense of desperately needed economic and social justice programs like single payer, universal health care, which is a reality in other industrialized countries, but shamefully not in the U.S which is a death warrant for tens of thousands in this country each year.<< MORE >>
In an amazing example of hypocrisy, Obama praised this dishonorable industry for offering "significant relief" to seniors in this country. When you hear words like that, start looking for the truth because that's not what is being disseminated.
The primary interest being served is that of the drug companies.<< MORE >>
These reactionary GOP asshats continue to spew their support for proto-fascist authoritarianism and anti-human rights, both hallmarks of their deranged philosophy which dominated the policies and actions of the criminal Bush regime.<< MORE >>
However, since all government lie, what's the reality?
We know that although US troop strength is supposed to be reduced, there will be only be a cosmetic name change from combat to support troops as tens of thousands of US military remain in country.<< MORE >>
So when that coffee maker breaks after a year, or the toaster that you bought at Wal-Mart, which prides itself on selling "economical" items "Made in China", catches fire, your muttering or screaming that "Made in China" stands for "Defective Goods" isn't too far from the truth.<< MORE >>
US response reflects the hemispheric unity denouncing the overthrow and exile of President Manuel Zelaya.<< MORE >>
In addition, President Obama and his minions pressured Democrats in Congress to pass the egregious Iraq and expansion in Afghanistan supplemental funding bill that contained $108 billion for the IMF (which badly needs to be reformed) to distribute to European banks.
However, it takes the president of a small Latin American country, to honestly speak truth to power, and afflict the comfortable, the hypocritical, and the corrupt.<< MORE >>
That seems to be the mantra and method of operation of this Democratic administration and a Democratic majority in Congress.
However, during the criminal Bush regime, when the GOP was the majority in Congress, the reality was Republicans were able to accomplish everything...especially creating disastrous bills and policies re-inforcing government of, by, and for the wealthy few the hell with the rest of the people<< MORE >>
Elected officials are mainly either Republican right wing lunatics or Democrats who are the new Republicans. Very few Democrats have a progressive vision that encompasses the common good and the fortitude to fight for that common good.
And the health care reform issue is a perfect example of that.<< MORE >>
Even one of the Bushes, Jeb, former governor of Florida, was involved in Medicare fraud when he wasn't busy with bank fraud in Florida, like his younger brother, Neil, in the Colorado Silverado S&L fraud and scandal that cost taxpayers billions of dollars to repair...Silverado alone cost the taxpayers $1 billion in the 1980's.<< MORE >>
The Obama administration's slow, timid, diluted, compromised, contradictory policies, e.g. stimuli not reaching the unemployed or continued promotion of offshoring of jobs, as in the auto industry, is dismaying, disappointing, and disgusting. << MORE >>
It ranges from the Jessica Lynch scandal and the Pat Tillman cover-up to the lies of last year's August air attack that killed scores of Afghans and the most recent US air strike last month that left 86 dead.
After that terrible slaughter last August, the US military's gave its usual vehement denial which also relied on Iran-Contra traitor and liar, then embedded Fixed Entertainment Noise's Oliver North "eyewitness account" to dispute the allegations<< MORE >>
As I've indicated often before, there is a resounding silence about a re-instatement of Glass-Steagall (killed by Robert Rubin and Clinton) while Obama's financial reform package resembles ice cream on cow pies.<< MORE >>
It is the height of hypocrisy that those GOPers now claiming support for the demonstrators also wanted to bomb them not so long ago.<< MORE >>
It maintains the ongoing "go along to get along" corporatist policies that pander to unfair trade practices and US companies' globalization machinations that eliminate American jobs, US corporations that instigate and/or are complicit in the unjust exploitation of workers in other countries.
Consider Obama's auto task force and this administration's dismaying contradictory policies.<< MORE >>
Their disdain for the American people is blatant.
However, Susie Madrak over at Crooks and Liars weighs in with two pieces that expose the ongoing Washington hypocrisy on this important issue.<< MORE >>
"Now, if the Obama administration would push for regulation of hedge funds, a re-instatement of the Glass Steagall Act (that separated commercial banking from investment banking, updated to control speculation) and regulate modern financial tools (such as derivatives) while enforcing anti-trust laws that prevent big banking monopolies, such strong regulations would go long way towards correcting the continuing laissez-faire greed and fraud still being perpetrated by Wall Street financial institutions' crooks."
Others have weighed in this issue, and many, like me, feel that, if this is all the president and his economic team can come up with, his administration has already failed in solving the problems of the current financial debacle and preventing a future Wall Street caused economic catastrophe<< MORE >>
You can forget the other wing on Capitol Hill, the Senate millionaires 100 club, where there is only one party, the corporatist party, bought and controlled by big money, with Democratic and Republican units (although the House is increasingly becoming a millionaire's club, too).
The House shamefully and recklessly passed the supplemental "war" appropriations bill 226 for-202 against (despite the Obama administration claiming no more "supplementals" a la Bush).<< MORE >>
It simplifies and strengthens a regulatory oversight process and, as Elizabeth Warren says, is a sea change from the existing, cumbersome, diversified system. << MORE >>