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In reply to the discussion: Seriously, did so many people truly believe that president Obama could change the course.... [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)From where I sit, Obama has done so much in his first term I look forward to the next.
Beside The Affordable Care Ammendment and The Lilly Ledbetter Act, one of the first great things he accomplished in his first year was loaning money to save General Motors.
Despite the calls from the other side to let it die on the vine, he took bold responsibility to allow the company a second chance, thereby saving the union contracts that would have been null and void otherwise. Mitt Romney, Darrell Issa, and Sen Dan Burton all said they wanted to see GM shed it's responsibility to "legacy costs'. Needless to say, all the Republican candidates agree.
Let me put a face on this: I'm a fucking legacy cost. ...Me.
I retired from GM in 2003 and suffered the loss of most of my health care and a 50% cut in my pension through the bankruptcy. I was two months from losing my home and having to move away and seeking some kind of menial job for old people. Along came this guy you have the nerve to deem a republican clone to work behind the scenes in restoring my pension through the federal PBGC fund. He literaly saved my dignity from those bastard motherfuckers who are to this day complaining that Obama worked with the corrupt auto union in the biggest socialist sell-out in American history. Are they talking about the same president you are?
Darrell Issa, head of the Congressional Oversight Committee, is demanding every document pertaining to the so called bailout so he can find a reason to tie Obama to union corruption. His goal is to get lazy deadbeats like me off the public dole and drive a stake though the heart of the UAW once and for all. The man you perceive as a republican tool told Issa to kiss his ass.
All Issa needs now is enough people like you to work with him and get the likes of Mitt Romney in the White House and the Republicans can finish me and my union brothers and sisters off for good. Personally, I'm just hoping I don't get so old I outlive my pension and become a burden on my adult sons and my six grandchildren.
I guess you're all upset today, and I understand. You apparently fear that Obama might come to your house some night and drag you off to Gitmo. How do you sleep at night with that sword of Damocles hanging over your head?