"A severe shortage of jobs...job seekers face intolerable odds."

The Obama administration loves the revolving door politics that it scorned during his campaign: it almost employs more Goldman Sachs officials in financial and regulatory positions than Goldman Sachs itself does.  One of the first acts of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was to hire a BP executive to serve as a deputy administrator for land and minerals management.

"Austerity: Why and For Whom?  A capitalist system that generates so massive a crisis, spreads it globally, and then proposes mass austerity to "overcome" it has lost the right to continue unchallenged."

"When will greedy, corrupt BP plug the damn hole?"  Too busy recovering from its intense, successful lobbying/bribing for UK government release of the Lockerbie bomber to protect a $900 million offshore oil-and-gas exploration deal off Libya’s Mediterranean coast.

Democrats have failed to govern, instead, they've wallowed in filibuster fantasies.

Watered down financial "reform" bill passes without any reinstatement of Glass-Steagall. 

"....common-sense immigration reform could 'raise the floor' for the whole workforce, provided that it is supported with rigorous labor standards and protections for all."

Wal-Mart isn't the answer: "solution to food security in America must come through a revitalized food economy...."