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Post by duffminster on Jan 26, 2011 16:01:50 GMT -5
Hello. I've posted a link from Duffminster to here on the primary links page.
In any case, I thought I'd share my thoughts on the State of the Union Address given last night by President Obama.
The President is a strong speech writer and delivers those speeches very well. The Memorial speech in Arizona was his best yet. This state of the union speech was a major let down for the Middle Class, Working Class, Poor and especially the progressive youth and liberals in general as it sounded more like a speech from Reagan or Clinton after he had moved to the dark side. He avoided all together many of the most systemic problems facing America and the two most important issues:
a. The massive and accelerating Wealth and Income disparity with 1% having more wealth than the bottom 90% and the massive income disparity, both of which are at record levels and accelerating.
b. The now unregulated corrupting influence and the legalized criminal activity of allowing unlimited money to non-transparently influence and corrupt the political process and the checks and balance of governments even as the elections of judges can be bought by unlimited financial influence.
At a Time when The United States needs to define itself and make a clear break from the Morally Corrupt policies of Bush, show true contrition for its actions, instead we got what sounded like a Trickle Down economics speech about cutting regulation, spending money to promote big corporate research projects and yet nothing to address the needs of the middle class, the working class and vast majority of American voters. Nothing to address the lack of regulations and oversight that caused the worst oil spill in history off our shores, nothing to address the Astounding Fact that the United States government appears to be Institutionalizing the worst abuses of the Bush administration including:
1. Having Assassination Lists for the First Time in US History and which Includes US Citizens. 2. That we now embrace an idea of No Due process—we...don’t just have indefinite detention anymore; we just go out, put their name on a list, and kill them. 3. Still routinely performing warrantless wire taps. 4. We removed the courts from these processes, obliterating checks and balances. 5. Still allowing torture, renditions and unwarranted and warrantless invasions of privacy without court intervention.
Why is it that JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs have earned a place at the table in the administration when the Robber Barons of Wall Street have made out like very successful bandits as a result of the Government and tax payer largess even as most Americans continue to struggle from pay check to pay check seeing stagnant wages and very tough job market not getting any better even as more factories and more jobs are shipped over seas as inhuman and nationless multi-national corporations without loyalty to America or its people always put the bottom line ahead of anything else and thus without the soul or heart of a human or the interest of this nation are happy to hand the jobs and factories over to nations which are autocratic authoritarian and in some cases communist regimes that have no human rights, no civil rights and little or no environmental protections, worker protections or free speech, and ofter where there are not flushable toilettes or running water as in many parts of India.
The so called free trade agreements and the WTO give little weight to truly fair trade based on human rights, civil liberties, occupational health and safety, liberty or the moral and ethical values that most American hold is the key to the definition of America.
Apparently, with the giant Wall Street Financial corporations, some still call Banks controlling Congress and the White House, one is left with that bitter taste that there is really no representation for the vast majority of Americans, the shrinking middle class, the growing poor and the ranks of the un-employed. There is little representation for the Moral High Ground on human and civil rights as the United States institutionalizes assignation lists, torture, warrantless invasions of privacy, and the whole sale outsourcing of American Jobs and Factories to nations who do not share the values of the American people on liberty, freedom, justice and human rights.
The new Corporate Oligarchy in America seems to want a nation more like China's autocratic ruling elite than a nation of free men and women who demand social justice. The slogan "One World One Dream" at the Olympics held in China was not just a slogan but a statement of unity between the increasingly nationless multi-national corporations that originated in the United States and the view of the Chinese leadership that has helped fund there massive profits.
While the President Talks about all he is doing and has done to make education more accessible, he completely avoids talking about the fact that the State Universities all over the country are under extreme budget pressures best exemplified by California which will be force to continue raising already massively higher tuition fees while even the Junior Colleges are under severe budget constraints and are running at capacity. Tuitions are going up across the board. While the reform of the Student loan system was a good step, what is need is a primary change in the prioritization and economic and financial infrastructure and mechanisms of higher education.
College and higher level education needs to be a Right for all citizens and it should be entirely and equally available to all who are willing to do the hard work of learning.
In the United States College has become far too much of a business for profit. The United States, in order to be truly competitive needs to make the Business of Education the Business of the People.
At the end of the day we are looking at an agenda defined by the likes of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, General Electric and the F-100 rather than a plan by a Public Servant bound and determined to do what is best for We the People of the United States.
The needs and desires of the soulless, heartless and nationless multi-national corporations, and the source of most of the campaign finance money will chart the course of US policy it seems and the needs, and hope and dreams of American citizens.
If and only if We the People decide to speak up, stand up and engage in peaceful and proactive resistance to the path of fascism will there be hope that the sins of the too big to fail robber barons are not extracted from the pensions of public workers, the benefits of life long employees promised retirement benefits, by charging soldiers more on the medical co-pays, by destroying the ability of citizens to seek compensation from irresponsible and unethical product safety violations.
There are two quotes I'd like to give from Martin Luther King, Jr.:
"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2011 16:15:39 GMT -5
Duff... your summary is so loooooong (please read this in a whiney voice...) ... can you summarize it for me ?
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Post by floridayankee on Jan 26, 2011 16:32:46 GMT -5
Hello. I've posted a link from Duffminster to here on the primary links page. In any case, I thought I'd share my thoughts on the State of the Union Address given last night by President Obama. The President is a strong speech writer Duff...meet Obama's speech writer....a 29 year old from Winchester, MA.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jan 26, 2011 23:49:47 GMT -5
That's HILARIOUS! I told my wife last night that the speech sounded like it was written by some 30 year old grad student in Hyde Park-- and there he is...not Hyde Park, but Winchester, MA is close enough.
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Post by waveguide on Jan 27, 2011 6:13:34 GMT -5
yes, lets on a smart, successful 30 year old for making it!
I read the negativity from the older crowd on here and the past MSN board, and no wonder we are in deep sh!t, you all don't move a finger besides to point it at other people.
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