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Socialist Response to the State of the Union

Sat, 01/28/2012 - 13:53 — Dave Culver
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Critical Thinking
Government & Politics

  • Job creation has been and will continue to be the most obvious way that Obama has sold out working people throughout America.

  • Obama’s State of the Union - Too Little Too Late
  • The Misadventure of Ron Paul



Stewart Alexander, Socialist Webzine


Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Billy Wharton


The phrase that came to mind immediately upon hearing President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech is “too little, too late.” After spending the last few years coddling the banks and the richest 1%, Obama has the nerve to now call for “economic fairness.” To him, this means tweaking payroll taxes and making a rhetorical call to reverse the Bush tax cuts for the rich. For working people in America real fairness means the right to a job, a guarantee of healthcare for all and an end to the Military Industrial Complex. Obama won’t deliver this. That’s why I am running for President against him.


Job creation has been and will continue to be the most obvious way that Obama has sold out working people throughout America. These decisions were made early on in his administration when he made the conscious decision to pour billions of dollars into the Banks that had funded his campaign instead of using those funds to create an emergency employment program to put people back to work. The result is that Americans have experienced nearly three consecutive years of more than 9% unemployment and nearly double that when those workers who given up looking for jobs are counted. This has meant real human suffering for millions of people.

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Related:

The Misadventure of Ron Paul, Billy Wharton, Socialist Magazine

  • He constantly issues the call for a “strong national defense” which translates into a well-funded military. As he stated directly in a recent interview, “My Plan to Restore America does not cut one penny of defense.”
  • Ron Paul is the most pro-corporate politicians in the Presidential race.
  • Females who file sexual harassment suits are, according to Paul, oppressing others.
  • Ron Paul's Useful Idiots on the Left


 

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