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In reply to the discussion: I woke up today and President Barack Obama is still President of the United States of America [View all]Fire Walk With Me
(38,893 posts)207. When the Constitution is being destroyed, when the nation is being handed over to
plutonomists and the Bush family and neocons, I get angry and tell people about it. No matter who is doing it.
How about some facts to go with your opinion?
Corporate Profits Have Grown By 171 Percent Under Obama -- Highest Rate Since 1900
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/corporate-profits-have-grown-171-percent-under-obama-highest-rate-1900
"Average annual corporate profit growth under Obama is the highest since 1900, whereas profit growth declined during both Bush presidencies. As a share of the economy, corporate profits have never been higher.
Unfortunately, this profit deluge has not been shared by workers, whose wages as a percentage of the economy have fallen to all-time lows. Workers also got dinged by the recent increase in the payroll tax, which was large enough to wipe out a minimum wage increase in some states."
8 Huge Corporate Handouts in the Fiscal Cliff Bill
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/8-huge-corporate-handouts-fiscal-cliff-bill
"Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many of them, such as Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, would then publicly come out and talk about how modest increases of tax rates on the wealthy were reasonable in order to deal with the deficit problem. What wasnt mentioned is what these leaders wanted, which is whats known as tax extenders, or roughly $205B of tax breaks for corporations. With such a banal name, and boring and difficult to read line items in the bill, few political operatives have bothered to pay attention to this part of the bill. But it is critical to understanding what is going on.
5) Subsidies for Goldman Sachs Headquarters Sec. 328 extends 'tax exempt financing for York Liberty Zone,' which was a program to provide post-9/11 recovery funds. Rather than going to small businesses affected, however, this was, according to Bloomberg, 'little more than a subsidy for fancy Manhattan apartments and office towers for Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Corp.' Michael Bloomberg himself actually thought the program was excessive, so thats saying something. According to David Cay Johnstons The Fine Print, Goldman got $1.6 billion in tax free financing for its new massive headquarters through Liberty Bonds."
The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouchables-wall-street-prosecutions-obama
Yes, Virginia, the Rich Continue to Get Richer: the Top 1% Got 121% of Income Gains Since 2009
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/yes-virginia-the-rich-continue-to-get-richer-the-1-got-121-of-income-gains-since-2009.html
U.S. banks in 2012 post highest profits since '06
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/26/us-usa-fdic-earnings-idUSBRE91P0N820130226?utm_source=Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=de8376aab3-DD_2_27_132_27_2013&utm_medium=email#.US5jjkXSlU8.twitter
This Years Subsidy to Wall Street = the Amount of This Years Sequester Cuts
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/this-years-subsidy-to-wall-street-the-amount-of-this-years-sequester-cuts.html#.US_yiFwwnHY.facebook
Dont Blink, or Youll Miss Another Bailout
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100466032
America faces more than a dozen deadlines, all caused by billionaires and wealth transfer
http://americablog.com/2013/02/america-faces-more-than-a-dozen-deadlines-all-caused-by-billionaires-and-wealth-transfer.html
Bank Bailout 2: Obama Lets Mortgage Abusers Off the Hook
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/09-5
I am okay with NONE of the above, and that only scratches the surface of Obama's collusion with the Plutonomy and doesn't even touch upon the loss of four sections of the Bill of Rights.
1: Domestic terrorism (as defined by the FBI and "patriot act" against US citizens for peacefully gathering to petition the government with grievance against the economic destruction wrought by banksters and corporations. SHUT UP AND WATCH TV is the message. March and meet hundreds of militarized police. SHUT UP AND GO HOME. 7400+ Occupiers arrested, two brought to within inches of death by militarized police. Force and threat of force against a civilian population for political purposes. And Obama continues to bail out Wall Street and the corps with our tax dollars to this day. Where is the outrage? Then the Supreme Court makes it illegal to protest on their grounds using words directly out of the 1st Amendment. Then Obama signs HR347 which makes it a Federal crime to protest where Secret Service are working (then he gives himself and George Bush lifetime SS protection...smell the trend?)
2: Shaky; under pressure
4: DHS can steal your personal electronics anywhere along the border and up to 100 miles inland =on a hunch=. So much for warrants, courts, reasonability. Zero right to privacy in the Bush/neocon surveillance state. Where is the outrage?
5: It was made legal recently to allow silence in court to be used against you in certain circumstances. Goodbye 5th Amendment.
6: The right to a speedy trial. Have you heard of Obama's NDAA section 1021 which provides for the indefinite detention of US citizens with neither trial nor representation?
Being quiet about the actual theft of the economy and the destruction of our guaranteed freedoms is not the answer!!!
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I woke up today and President Barack Obama is still President of the United States of America [View all]
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
OP
Three cheers for the four sections of the Bill of Rights destroyed on his watch!
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#38
It is the exact fucking definition from the FBI and the "patriot act".
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#79
Yes! Pay no attention to any fact calling your opinion to question! Ignore all fact
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#33
Avg CEO income up 40% since 2009, avg American earns less than they did in 1999.
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#26
Yeah! He's such a powerful dictator, he can raise everybody's income all by himself!
Amonester
Jul 2013
#185
Ignorant hyperbole unless there are links to back that up, of course. People could
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#192
the rising middle class in China and India should thank American politicians
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#194
I know and understand ALL that, but you don't seem to understand something: this House.
Amonester
Jul 2013
#199
Sure he "had the nation at his back." Except for every Republican politician; wingnut; racist; PUMA
Hekate
Jul 2013
#193
You really, really need to search DU and read Alan Grayson's words on the TPP
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#203
The issue was whether everybody had his back after he was elected. They didn't.
Hekate
Jul 2013
#204
The issue is the theft of the economy and our freedoms through Obama's own actions.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#205
When the Constitution is being destroyed, when the nation is being handed over to
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#207
You've been shown the "other facts" but they don't penetrate. I don't need to reiterate them....
Hekate
Jul 2013
#208
Ignore the destruction of the Bill of Rights on Obama's watch, ignore the destruction of the economy
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#209
I woke up this morning and saw that there are still people fooling themselves into thinking Obama
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#22
"Barack Obama is one of the most eminently qualified men to take on this most challenging role,"
bowens43
Jul 2013
#25
nope. that joy and common ground lasted literally about 2 months and started to unravel
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#167
You are being too generous. He went under the bus 2 months before the inauguration when he
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#176
You are EXACTLY right, Steven. Love the pathetic attempts to "whitewash" how this site has treated
Number23
Jul 2013
#217
All the haters to this thread need to start their own party. Flame me, put me on ignore or
mfcorey1
Jul 2013
#37
Well, good luck with that. One has not been found since the first President of the United States.
mfcorey1
Jul 2013
#53
Anything Obama says or does is all right with you. That's quite a philosophy you have there.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#42
I never stated that I agree with everything, so twisting my words will not help. I
mfcorey1
Jul 2013
#54
Throwing a shoe is one of the gravest insults one can offer in that country.
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#80
Because when so called Democrats help Republicans make a Dem President unpopular, we get
stevenleser
Jul 2013
#220
Bottom Line is that you are offended by these characterizations and they sting
bobduca
Jul 2013
#121
see what you are doing? making shit up. if someone agrees with the president on ANYTHING
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#125
thank you. and although I knew it would stir things up...the main point
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#122
I can drive for miles without any checkpoints in this country. I can vote by mail in Oregon
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#130
I like it that you think there are no checkpoints ever...in the country
nadinbrzezinski
Jul 2013
#156
I woke up today and the USA is still the largest fascist oligarchy in the world.
PowerToThePeople
Jul 2013
#107
This is what they sent you to say while they work on the Larry Summers narrative? nt
Dreamer Tatum
Jul 2013
#108
I can build support for the president and his goals here AND write letters to him and
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#137
because I refuse to be a part of a right wing echo chamber of demoralizing shit
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#141
Methinks you highly overestimate the impact of DU on voting results.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jul 2013
#145
not true. I have return correspondence in actual paper form from Barack Obama and Ron Wyden
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#146
A)I know Saudi Arabia is an ally. Much in the way that Pakistan is an ostensible ally.
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#196
He's undoubtedly our head of state and the person making final calls on diplomatic relations with
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#182