"For twelve years our nation was afflicted with hear nothing, see nothing, do nothing government."
I've had it with the tip-toeing around with these people. These almost all white people are weak minded. The people at these town halls are scared of minorities in power and having someone with two incurable auto-immune disease disorders having "more rights than me." Can someone, Keith, please just call them scared unthinking child-level thinkers instead of just being amazed?
No need to use the term racists. Calling them racists is just calling them unthinking scared and naive. So no need to point out the obvious and use the term racist.
We need to have our congress and our President use language like FDR did back in 1936. Stop it! We need to tell them that they can play the games and take all the money they want. We will point all of that out in forceful terms and make sure that they understand that we are now in charge and could give a flying fuck!
In the end, we do not have FDR right now. We may have a second-rate Bill Clinton. I raised a hell of a lot of money for Obama last year and stopped after the FISA vote in July. I could no longer raise money for him after that. I still supported Obama and was the happiest I have ever been since I have been voting since 1992 after the election.
I just hope Obama does the right thing with health care and listens to his own words:
"It is not about me."
I have always held Emanuel is a scumbag and I only hope Obama understands this sooner rather than later. Any bill is NOT better than no bill.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mobs."
"I welcome their hatred!"
But they are guilty of more than deceit. When they imply that the reserves thus created against both these policies will be stolen by some future Congress, diverted to some wholly foreign purpose, they attack the integrity and honor of American Government itself. Those who suggest that, are already aliens to the spirit of American democracy. Let them emigrate and try their lot under some foreign flag in which they have more confidence.
The fraudulent nature of this attempt is well shown by the record of votes on the passage of the Social Security Act. In addition to an overwhelming majority of Democrats in both Houses, seventy-seven Republican Representatives voted for it and only eighteen against it and fifteen Republican Senators voted for it and only five against it. Where does this last-minute drive of the Republican leadership leave these Republican Representatives and Senators who helped enact this law?
Here is an amazing paradox! The very employers and politicians and publishers who talk most loudly of class antagonism and the destruction of the American system now undermine that system by this attempt to coerce the votes of the wage earners of this country. It is the 1936 version of the old threat to close down the factory or the office if a particular candidate does not win. It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.
Every message in a pay envelope, even if it is the truth, is a command to vote according to the will of the employer. But this propaganda is worse‹it is deceit.
They tell the worker his wage will be reduced by a contribution to some vague form of old-age insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar of premium he pays for that insurance, the employer pays another dollar. That omission is deceit.
They carefully conceal from him the fact that under the federal law, he receives another insurance policy to help him if he loses his job, and that the premium of that policy is paid 100 percent by the employer and not one cent by the worker. They do not tell him that the insurance policy that is bought for him is far more favorable to him than any policy that any private insurance company could afford to issue. That omission is deceit.
They imply to him that he pays all the cost of both forms of insurance. They carefully conceal from him the fact that for every dollar put up by him his employer puts up three dollars three for one. And that omission is deceit.
and what Obama needs to echo loud and clear next week:
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.