When he let the Wall Street Weasels Colonize His Treasury Department.
Once again, I donated to Obama, voted for Obama, and still very strongly desire 'Change We Can Believe In'. I did that because I wanted CHANGE from the Greenspan/Bernacke/Paulson economic crimes among other Bush high crimes and misdemeanors.
In economics, we are NOT getting CHANGE. We are getting MORE of the SAME 'Paulsen-ing over' by Geithner.
These Bushite 'stress tests' with secret results are a far cry from a new era of transparency. And the idea that banks could pass the 'stress tests' and still need more bailout money is just pissing in everybody's face.
The false idea that the American people can't live without Wall Street Weasel 'bankers' is the subtext of all bailout apologia. How many of us regard the eight years of media celebrating corporate financial profits while the working class lost ground as good news and is that CHANGE?
Please, Make the Jump.
Nothing has changed for the working class. People are still losing jobs by the score.
Instead of putting trillions in at the bottom for people to spend and moving us away from dependence on fossil fuels NOW, at the bottom we are still getting mousenuts, slow-stepping and bandaids that don't even cover the wounds!
Idiots will try to change my call for REAL CHANGE in economics has some kind of goofy call for impeaching Obama, or contend that I have a teabag factory in my basement, or some other slur.
Not true at all. I do drink tea occasionally, but I don't drink anybody's KoolAide.
Like Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and others who hope to prevent the Second Republican Great Depression from growing to being a worse monster than 1929 and three years of Hooverism gave us, I want CHANGE...
as in... CHANGE COURSE!
I'm calling for President Obama to put the rudder over 'hard a port' before we hit an even bigger iceberg than eight long years of BUSHITE corporate economics.
All the efforts to revive the old high-flyer finance system are FAILING and the efforts to pretend otherwise are doomed to fail and leave the nation in even worse shape.
Do what FDR did, take over and close the crooked banks, create JOBS and let the American people fix things.
I want 'Change We Can Believe In' and I still think Obama should give it to us sooner rather than later.
RMD