Super Committee Fails, but American People Win

Read ALL of Adam Smith's work on how capitalism works and what will kill it - understand what you're talking about before sticking your nose up. Capitalism isn't practiced today.



Yup, I sound like Reich. I also sound like Nouriel Roubini. And Paul Krugman. Now that the dust has settled and the evidence is clear and it front of us, the FACT is that Roubini and Krugam and Reich saw this bubble and predicted most of its impacts many years ago. None of the "non-elite­" (?) wanted to hear it. But they were right.



The pundits you choose to listen to because they agree with your biased opinions were wrong. Some of the Friedman economists have even come around to agreeing with Roubini - but you haven't. Apparently­, you're smarter. But you're wrong about the economy.



There are two types of people who talk like you - people born with silver spoons in their mouths and people who, through some hard work, a ton of good luck, and help from others (that is usually forgotten and replaced with "I did it all myself" memory), managed to make a respectabl­e living despite starting with very little. For different reasons you both believe the same irrational conclusion­: "everyone can be rich if they work hard."



Your wonder church and local mission will be needing to size up by about 500% over the next few years if we don't directly address the capitalism­-killing problem of 'winner takes all' economics.
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Super Committee Fails, but American People Win

Tell you what, skippy - YOU give away everything and pay perpetual fealty to those who have all the wealth in this country and leave me out of your self-loath­ing, perverse homage to the absurd notion that this nation couldn't survive without their money.



If you're so terrified of being in a country without the super rich, then go follow them around the world as they find this mythical safe place to put their money. And while you're at it, relinquish your citizenshi­p. We don't need court jesters for the rich - especially those who claim we have a $6 trillion dollar budget and the real number is under $4 trillion.
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Keeping Up With the Kandidates

Stop it - you know he had that his first two years. And even with that, he fell all over himself, surrenderi­ng everything possible to the minority party.



As for the blue dogs, I'd have had a closed door meeting with them on day one of my term and laid it on the line. "You heard my campaign, so nothing I call for should be a surprise. If you're against these things, switch parties now so there will be no confusion. If your political strategy is to fight me publicly within the party, then get your resume together because I'm going to have the DNC run primary candidates against you. I'm not saying you have to rubber stamp everything­, but you will stop the games now." Then I would follow through.



Would it have worked? Maybe - maybe not. But what was done instead - throw away valid solutions to overwhelmi­ngly vital problems in exchange for useless compromise­s - has been an unmitigate­d disaster. We've lost so much more time and treasure in the process of b3nding 0ver for the wingers and there is no reason at all to believe that a stronger Dem Congress will elicit ANY change at all from O'sellout. After all, the President had a VERY strong Dem House and decided to hold back on submitting study requests to the House that would have forced reconcilia­tion votes in the Senate for things like tax break expiration­, etc.



Buck stops in oval office.
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California Refuses to Accept Obama's Banking Sellout

I ask my 'Obama is the greatness President ever' idolaters to please reconcile the President'­s total silence in the face of these actions which are a clear and unconscion­able giveaway to entities who continue to abuse the public trust on behalf of the 1%.



Anyone familiar with Roubini, Stiglitz, Fox, Krugman, et. al. (or "the economists who had predicted the financial disaster long ago") would choke at what this agreement means. It's beyond a "sellout" or a "giveaway.­" It's perpetrati­on of a bigger, more epic fraud than the 2007 meltdown.



This is more of the same - give the republican­s and the powerful virtually everything they want in exchange for a microscopi­c return. Another ransom deal where the President holds the gun to the heads of the 99% saying, "take the deal!"... and then spins the results as gloriously good bipartisan­ship.



Almost no comments here. Seems like none of those who have total confidence in the President'­s concern for the 99% have sampled this article?



I extend the question to those who still think that Obama will be better than any republican president. But think about it for a second. If a republican proffered the same deal to the nation's attorneys general, how many Democratic AGs other than California­'s would tell that president to shove off? I suspect there would be more.



We don't have a choice in 2012 between bad and worse. All the choices are equally rancid.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

On one hand, I admire the ability of Obama loyalists to continue to fight for him. But on the other, I resent them for ignoring the glaring facts that show he is, like every other President before him, a product of those with whom he surrounds himself. You can't ignore forever the cadre of trickle-do­wn, 'what's good for wall street is good for all' slimers that have been Obama's choices for running the economy.



At some point you have to snap out of it - and maybe some have, given the fact that a post like yours usually attracts a dozen outraged replies laced with citations of feeble Obama "accomplis­hments"... yet there are no vigorous retorts here? - and see things clearly. The recent addition of more one-sided trade agreements to the "accomplis­hments" list may have separated a few more from the herd. Who knows. But until we can rally a bona fide 3rd party candidate, it's not going to matter too much.
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The Worst Deal They Could Cut

The President isn't soft on republican­s or soft on wall street. He's just soft. Period. Soft.



Soft governance at any level of government is barely better than having no government­. I've seen it when I was in local office and seen it elsewhere. Those in your jurisdicti­on seek the weak and exploit it brutally. Once properly tamed, the governing body is completely ineffectiv­e and the balance of power gone. Sadly, we see no greater example of this ineffectua­lness than in Obama.



2012 is all about destructiv­e through softness versus destructiv­e through crazy. I for one am ready to let the republican­s run wild for a few years. Bringing those people defending the 1% to their knees for a little bit might bring enough of them around to where bona fide candidates like Elizabeth Warren can easily win seats.



Too many people think the economy is coming around and we just need a little more trickle down double-dow­n to fix it up (and smack the poor while they're at it). When their naive backs snap under that debunked policy, I think the rebuilding job will be a LOT easier.
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