Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss II

Obama vs. Bush, lets see where do I begin? While campaigning during the financial crisis he promised and voted for, that if we the taxpayers give Wall street 12.8 billion dollars, credit markets would flow again. Bush enacted it and Obama voted for it. Instead the FDIC admitted last week that the credit markets have reduced lending at the sharpest rate since 1942. Obama said he would filibuster passage of the FISA Act which retroactively legalized wiretapping our phones without warrants. Instead he voted for it and Bush passed it. He told us he would close Guantanamo. Bush opened it and Obama continues to keep it open. He said he would pull out of Iraq. Bush started it and Obama still has over a hundred thousand troops there. In addition to the troops in Iraq, our tax dollars also pay over a hundred thousand contractors working there. He said he would only pass health care with a public option. Instead we got John McCains health care plan from his presidential campaign, which was similar to Bob Doles health reform plan from twenty years ago, but is now filled with bloat and waste that will not give the insurance companies competition but will fill their pockets even more. He has done nothing for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", "Employee Free Choice Act" or "Wall Street Reform". It's amazing that he is following in the footsteps of Bush and the Republicans are against him. How is it that they supported all of these policies while Bush was running things but now that a Democrat is in charge they fight him every step of the way. This country is on a course that is a dangerous one at best. At worst think of the fall of the Roman Empire. Over the last thirty years we have seen the biggest transfer of wealth to the richest one percent of this country, all courtesy of the federal government. Both Republicans and Democrats are to blame. Republicans through unfunded tax cuts and Democrats through ridiculous trade policies favoring third world countries such as India and China. Remember the game of Monopoly? That is what's happening in this country and it happened in Venezuela and that's why Hugo Chavez is in power now. Ninety five percent of the people who live in that country are poor, but their lives are all getting better because of the transfer of wealth from the five percent of the people who are wealthy to the other ninety five who are poor. Some say that is communism and so do I. But lets recall what is happening in our country. Our tax dollars go to farm subsidies for large commercial farms who produce the high fructose corn syrup that goes into everything we eat, which makes us fat diabetics so that our tax subsidies to the drug companies can develop pills so they can sell us ever more expensive pills that don't cure us, instead just treat us. We have tax subsidies to the largest oil companies in the world who have had record profits while we pay three to four dollars a gallon for gas. I never could figure that one out. We give tax subsidies to other energy companies as well. One of the definitions of communism is income redistribution and our government does that every day only they call it tax credits to make it sound nice. You may recall a few weeks ago a despondent man flew his light plane into an IRS building in Austin Texas. Here is a quote from his suicide note. "Why is it that a hand full of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of GM executives, for scores of years) and when its time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from their corpses and the victims they cripple, and this countries leaders don't see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet the political Representatives (thieves, liars, and self serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the terrible health care problem. It's clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don't get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in". I think this says a lot about what's going on in this country. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.