My background as a Democrat includes winning the Democratic nomination to the US Congress in 1984 in Maryland, and the winning the Democratic nomination to the US Congress in 1988 in California. I was a delegate for Obama in the 2008 Democratic county and state conventions in Colorado. After watching Obama break promise after promise to the voters, I re-registered as an Independent. Using my past political experience and spending a lifetime studying US politics, I have written 3 books about our corrupt system and have written numerous Op-Ed columns. It is easy to recognize that the Republicans are a serious threat to the people. However, the Democrats hide their real agenda very well , and practice the age old political process of "counting the votes" before they vote in the Senate or the House of Representatives. Counting the votes disguises how your party really believes.When the Republicans needed votes for Fast Track of the horrible Trans Pacific Partnership job killing trade deal, the Democrats supplied the exact amount needed to pass this bad bill. When the Republicans needed 45 votes from the Democrats to block the bill which would have required labelling our foods if they are GMO, the Democrats supplied the 45 votes! When we needed affordable healthcare, Obama did not confer with doctors and nurses on what the public needed. He invited health insurance lobbyists in and allowed them to write the phony worded bill, "Affordable Care Act." My wife's insurance doubled in costs because of the ACA. On Jan.1, 2016 the public will be facing a penalty of 2.5
% of your income if you cannot afford to buy these overpriced insurance plans. Today, there are 35 million Americans without health insurance. When Democratic Senator Max Baucus chaired a public hearing before Congress voted on this phony law, a group of doctors and nurses tried to introduce a non-profit government health insurance plan.Senator Baucus stopped these well meaning doctors and nurses from speaking and, instead, had all of them arrested and sent to jail because they dared to speak at a PUBLIC HEARING! Obama has kept the negotiations on the Trans Pacific Partnership job killing act SECRET for over a year! American workers lost over 5 million jobs when Democratic President Bill Clinton helped the Republicans pass the job killing trade act, "NAFTA". There were only 3 nations in the NAFTA law. The new SECRET job killing TPP law involves `12 nations and the estimates of jobs we will lose are over 20 million! That is why I re-registered from being a Democrat to being an Independent. We have no choices to vote for in 2016 if we do not wake up to what the citizens in other nations did when they faced a similar dilemma.They built Labor parties and voted for Labor Party candidates who represented the interests of the public. Their labor parties won control of their government and passed laws that gave every citizen FREE HEALTHCARE! In some nations their labor parties gave their children FEE COLLEGE! The Australian labor party passed a Minimum Wage law that increases every year. Today, Australians enjoy a MW of $ 17.29 per hour! We can do the same if we get off our butts and help build an American Labor Party. Howard M Greenebaum, author PS Visit my web site www.BoldThoughts.org and learn how easy it to build a Labor party and keep our LP candidates loyal to our goals.