The Obama legacy: The US has attacked a few more countries and expanded drone warfare, we learned that the NSA is spying on all of us, whistleblowers face prison, 95% of the recoverys economic gains since 2009 have gone to the wealthiest One Percent, Wall Street fraudsters who wrecked the economy were never prosecuted, the middle class is shrinking, public education is getting privatized, a new international trade pact (Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated in secret by the White House) threatens to kill US jobs and environmental protections, the US has the worlds highest incarceration rate, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere (the main driver of climate change) has reached 400 parts per million, and fracking, mountaintop detonation mining, and new pipelines are making it worse. And we do have death panels. Theyre called private insurance companies and theres a new law that forces us to subsidize them directly. (But Republicans are worse! cry Democrats, missing the point.) Scott McLarty, Media Co-ordinator, Green Party of the United States.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:05:24 +0000
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