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Vic Vinegar

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23. Please give him demands

Reply to PennsylvaniaMatt (Original post)

Sun Jan 20, 2013, 12:01 AM

Jan 2013

Decent man he might be. This has nothing to do with policy. Time will tell if Obama is a Wall Street Monetarist Neo-Liberal or a New Deal Democrat!

He MUST raise the debt ceiling via the 14th amendment! He must nationalize the Federal Reserve and lend low interest century bonds for infrastructure, re-industrialization, hospitals, public schools. He must stop supporting scab jobs to make it appear as if he has created real jobs. He must support a 1% Wall Street Sales Tax! He must stop ALL cuts to entitlement programs that he has allowed even before the fiscal cliff. The list goes on...

If Obama does not accomplish these things he is not a Kennedy, he is not an FDR, he is not a Lincoln and he is not even an LBJ. Democrats must pressure Obama to do these things! If you are not willing to pressure the president with demands then you are allowing the descent of the Democratic party into the Monetarist Neo-Liberal wing which is now the dominant faction.

I beg you, never be content. We need change and it can not be pocket change reforms Obama has instituted.

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