Critiquing the policies is not discrediting the President.
The steamroller of Reaganomics has been nudging us toward this cliff for decades. President Obama inherited a mess.
When he campaigned, he did not indicate he would do a lot to change the status quo. Corporate power is already so entwined with federal government, President Obama may not be able to do more than he is allowed, even if he wants to.
That's where you come in. You have been called upon to focus on the real threats of the moment and their initials are not P.K.
If you want to support our President and stop plans to "institutionalize the corporate state in a way that will be severely damaging to any possibility of restoring democracy," now is the time.
"Be as noisy and as nonviolently provocative as you can be. And stop the politicians from going down that road. And let me add a lot of politicians need that to be able to stand up. Our President needs that to be able to stand up."
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WILLIAM GREIDER: The corporate state is here. And I'd say, let's not argue over that. The fact is, if the Congress goes down the road I see them going down, they will institutionalize the corporate state in a way that will be severely damaging to any possibility of restoring democracy. And I want people to grab their pitch forks, yes, and be unruly. Get in the streets. Be as noisy and as nonviolently provocative as you can be. And stop the politicians from going down that road. And let me add a lot of politicians need that to be able to stand up. Our President needs that to be able to stand up.
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WILLIAM GREIDER: Well, among other things that are missing from that story is that we had the rules and regulations, the agencies created some 80 years ago and afterwards to prevent this sort of catastrophe. And these same political players, Republicans and Democrats holding hands, stripped them away, eviscerated them. The same agencies these reformers want to put in power to prevent this from happening again. Starting with the Federal Reserve, the Securities Exchange Commission, other regulators, utterly failed in their duty to do that. Now, we're going to give them new power.
I'm offering a breath of skepticism toward this grand transformation of government. I don't want to be a cynic, but it feels more to me like trying to restore the old order that failed. And I mean by that these big mega banks that had been liberated by deregulation to do as they pleased and the other rules that were undermined. I think this President, and I'm a big fan of this President, but I think his first priority seems to be to recreate those institutions which, some of which are now insolvent, as healthy again.
And actually it's quite scary, because unless they set about to make much more fundamental changes, I fear we will, sure enough, get this back again.
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The Quiet Coup-How the financial industry took over the government
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=5340851Why Not Bank CEOs? (David Sirota)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x437180Must See Moyers Journal with William Greider: "... trying to restore the old order that failed" $$$
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5345808Moyers and Greider - President Obama is "trapped between the governing elites who decide things and
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5346131&mesg_id=5346131Rachel Maddow Show: Somebody Saw It Coming: Byron Dorgan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_hbezbsJ8sKrugman is NOT alone.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8301968http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtmlhttp://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/edit: "We" :evilgrin: :hi:
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