Reply #32: Cater to corporations (especially mega-banks and health insurers).

[JDPriestly]

Hire intellectual immigrants while equally qualified Americans can't find jobs (speaks for itself). Lower government budget costs by increasing family budget expenses (refusal to talk to single payer health insurance proponents). Support "free trade" and outsourcing (no action on renegotiating trade treaties or VAT or other tax measures that could even the playing field). Further allow tax evasion (only token action on this). Throw token programs at the poor (SCHIP does not cover nearly enough people or situations). Take token measures on unemployment.

Oh, and remain silent when your cabinet member sends a congressperson on the finance committee (Rep. Xavier Becerra) to your answering machine while you talk endlessly to the big guys at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. And above all, assign more oversight authority to the Fed but don't permit it to be audited much less advocate that it be audited.

While you are at it, forget about unions between elections. Find a couple of meaningless issues and just toss them out so that the union leadership will have something to crow about when it is time to get the rank and file working in campaign offices. Keep that stick behind the unions: big bad unionbusting Republicans. And keep the carrot dangling there up front: tomorrow, tomorrow, life will be better.

Privatize education. Punish teachers. (At least those who belong to unions.) That brings joy to the hearts of the members of the Chamber of Commerce and big media like nothing else.

Cater to the big corporations and very rich even more effectively.

In short, never offend a wealthy person or corporation. See each of them as a potential future donor. Talk like you care about everybody else, but don't do anything that would help them and hurt a corporation, for God's sake.