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In reply to the discussion: As Republicans Make Millions Suffer, the Left’s Ideologues Obsess Over Edward Snowden [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Interesting. This might be confused with the fourth way, but actually it is merely the second. Things are that bad.
So you post the posturing of an author who suggests that full bellies and full employment is the first thing we should worry about. All other concerns should go by the wayside. It would be a good suggestion, if either was possible in the foreseeable future. President Obama has begun talking about the economy, and has offered no plan to improve it. No grand construction project like the Golden Gate Bridge, or the Hoover Dam. No social project that will take years like the Rural Electrification Project that will take decades. No science based initiative like the Moon landings that would spread money and jobs through the economy. Just that he cares, and the Republicans are blocking him from doing something.
So while we "obsess" over something we can change now, something we can stop now, we are turning our backs on all the other issues in the mind of this author, and apparently you agree with him.
I do not. We celebrated the defeat of DOMA at the hands of the Supreme Court here, while the Snowden affair was fresh. We celebrated the defeat of Prop 8 here, while Snowden was fresh in our minds. We celebrated much, and raged much over the ups and downs of the Zimmerman trial, all while Snowden was still going on. Look at the news, all of those issues got plenty of coverage, all while Snowden's story was continuing to unfold.
So what can we do to improve the economy? We the individuals can't spend money we don't have to buy things we don't need. We can't very well hire someone if we ourselves are barely making ends meet. If we could hire someone, we could not pay them a decent wage, nor provide them with health care.
Yet, we are supposed to do something. So what shall we do? Propose a good war, a nice long war that will pump billions into industry to make bombs and guns and other things needed to end lives in some small nation on the other side of the world? Are we to re-electrify the nation? Perhaps we can tear the Hoover dam down, and rebuild it in a more ecological and efficient manner.
What can we do to jump start the economy, as individuals. All we can do, as individuals, or party members, is support propositions or oppose those propositions put forth by leaders. The leaders are not leading, they are continuing to pump money into Wall Street while all those you mention are suffering. So how do I get behind that? It hasn't created any jobs, and it hasn't helped any poverty stricken families. All it does is continue to pump money into the big money companies that pump money right back into the elected leaders pockets. Both Republicans and Democrats are as guilty as hell here.
So what change can we effect? We can't get Washington to cut the purse strings. That's just not going to happen. We can't force the Wall street masters of greed to cough up the dough and hire people for public works. We tried to with Occupy, and the Government came in and infiltrated and broke them apart from within using violence, lies, and propaganda like this piece from Politics USA.
We can do none of that, but we can save our rights. We can protest, and object, and fight to save our rights. We can raise a ruckus that moves at the speed of stink. We can dash the hopes of the wannabe fascists who dream of the day when a Rethug is in the White House and can use those databases to destroy the Left once and for all. We can save everyone on the left, or we can meekly go and join the right. You apparently choose the option that has us sell our soul to join the RW in this.
I do not.