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In reply to the discussion: 100 Reasons Why President Obama Is NOT The Same As President Bush [View all]jazzimov
(1,456 posts)and since they were total BS or not related to Obama, I gave up:
-Citizens United = unlimited donations and campaign spending by corporations and rich businessmen. $2 billion spent upon this election cycle. Mussolini's definition of Fascism says it should be called corporatism, because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
SCOTUS, nothing to do with Obama and nothing Obama could do.
-No wall street regulation or punishment, same with the banks
Dodd-Frank, there have been arrests and prosecutions.
-A multiple hundred-fold disparity in income between CEOs and workers, which remains unchanged even a year after OWS
Which Obama is trying to address with Living Wage, but Republicans in Congress are blocking.
-Drones used for summary execution of foreigners and US citizens abroad suspected of terrorism or terrorist ties
-Hundreds of children killed by these drones in more than five countries
As opposed to cruise missiles, which have much more "collateral damage".
-The Bush-era FISA warrantless wireless wiretapping bill was just signed into five more years of activity.
The bill was passed at the end of Bush's term BECAUSE of warrantless wiretapping to put a stop to it.
I gave up after that.