Because people took to the streets .....................!

[deathb4disco]

Thank you deathb4disco for watching the entire video that must have been hard for you.

You have no idea. Fortunately, I watch Chris Matthews froth at the mouth about the Republicans every night, so I'm used to that sort of thing.

However, unless everyone on this board is super rich I really don't understand why they would support/defend policies and agendas that are geared to work against their best interests.

Such as?

I'm not rich (much less super rich), but I wouldn't vote for the Dems if you held a gun to my head and suspended my mother over a pit filled with pirahnas.

When the White House is owned by the Corporations the ballot box has very little power.

The Obama White House is owned by the unions. Former SEIU head Andy Stern practically had an office there. Trumpka (AFL-CIO) said he spoke to the White House every day.

And we are not a Democracy we're a Republic.

I know, but I didn't think it was necessary to actually type that.

Yeah, the Republicans want to focus on the debt but the real problem is JOBS!

Unemployment is still high because Obama's policies are a disaster. He promised his first stimulus (the one that "only" cost $787 billion) would keep unemployment to 8%. Oops. Then, he ignored the economy for a year and a half while he rammed through a health care bill that nobody wanted and we can't afford. Now, he wants to blow another $400 billion of other people's money. The only problem is he can't get all the Senate Dems to vote for it. Rofl Thank you Senators Tester, Lieberman and Nelson!

People did the right thing, saved their money, build up IRAs and 401K for their retirement and then saw most of it disappear right before their eyes through no fault of their own.

That's right. It was the fault of clueless politicians like Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd who can't get enough of the government meddling in the free market. They actually named the financial reform bill after those two clowns. Naming a financial reform bill after Dodd and Frank is like naming a hospital after Jack Kervorkian.