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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]newspeak
(4,847 posts)"it was the direction." His cabinet appointments, especially, when it affected our financial future. Appointing someone like arne duncan in education also was one of those WTF moments. Now there's a good appointment if you want to weaken the public education sector and strengthen the for profit private educational sector. Cenk, a couple of days ago, had a report about student loan defaults, public versus private, and those from the private have way more public debt and fewer graduates than those in public. And yet, it is our tax money funding these "private" institutions.
And now the repukes in the house, with the help of a traitorous democrat, want to sell out medicare-another grab fest for the insurance industry.
I'm sick of being sold out to corporate profits--that's not why I pay my taxes. I enjoy the public institutions that we have, where my money is not given for corporate profit in turn to be used against my interests by corporate lobbyists.
In my opinion, his cabinet choices to bailout us out of this fekkin mess, was cover WS arse and maintain the mainstreet damaging status quo.