At the Take Back America 2007 Conference Jun 19, 2007, Barack Obama made a very good speech:
Let's finally make the minimum wage a living wage. Let's tie it to the cost of living so we don't have to wait another 10 years to see it rise. Let's put the jobless back to work in transitional jobs that can give them a paycheck and a sense of pride. Let's help our workers advance with job training and lifelong education. Let's invest in infrastructure, broadband lines, and rural communities and in inner cities. Let's give jobs to ex-offenders--because we believe in giving a second chance to people. And let's finally allow our unions to do what they do best and lift up the middle class in this country once more.
I have a question.
Why aren't we hearing more of that and less pathetic blather like this:
I believe that America's free market has been the engine of America's great progress. It's created a prosperity that is the envy of the world. It's led to a standard of living unmatched in history. And it has provided great rewards to the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon for science, and technology, and discovery...We are all in this together. From CEOs to shareholders, from financiers to factory workers, we all have a stake in each other's success because the more Americans prosper, the more America prospers.
It's the top quote on Obama's website under the issue of the economy!
Is it posssible that Obama hasn't noticed CEO's grabbing $400,000,000 retirement packages and all the rest of the gigantic corporate pig-out of the last seven years?
"We are all in this together." What planet is he talking about? The only thing we're all in together is the top-down class war that Republicans are totally winning, and if Obama plans to float off into some delusional happy-space instead of fighting for the rest of us, we need to know it now.