Thom Hartmann: Why is Obama taking advice from a secretive billionaire?

[thomhartmann]

Thom looks at the shadowy oligarch who may have the private ear of the President on Social Security.

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[DhhD]

1. During the 2012 Presidential Debates, Romney ask Obama about his-Obama's, China Portfolio.

Then I wonder if Texas Republicans are one of the State Chapters of Fix the Debt. And maybe that has something to do with the refusal of Texas TEA Party to accept the Medicaid Expansion. What has Texas been promised? What are Texans holding out for? What other states are refusing the ACA to its citizens? Is Roberts a member of Fix the Debt?

[FiveGoodMen]

2. The most reasonable supposition is this: That's who he really works for.

[fasttense]

3. Until Americans fight back, the Wall Street banksters

will get everything they want.

Obama is already offering the eat-Cat-food-when-your-80 solution of the chain CPI to Social Security in exchange for ending the sequester.

I hate to say it, but I think Obama has been no better than Herbert Hoover at dealing with this continuing economic depression.