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In reply to the discussion: Things WILL NOT get better until the system implodes [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Right now 49 cents out of every dollar of profit generated inside this nation goes right off the bat to the rich. To the One Percent.
If you have investment monies come in, it does trickle down. But for the rest of us, Nothing!
I see no indications that anything Obama does will help. I hope to Goddess I am wrong about the ACA, but if it does get most of the 7.1 million uninsured here in California insured, how the heck will there be enough clinics, doctors, nurses etc to even see so many people? Plus Jerry Brown cut 1 billion dollars out of state budget that had been used as health care revenue. Hopefully the Fed government will be making up those monies - otherwise clinics will go bust and there will be less help for rural poor than there is now.
We needed someone who understood how to handle the econmic collapse. Kucinich and Issa both advocated the same game plan - simply use the laws from the Savings and Loan debacle and infuse money into state chrtered banks in every region of the nation with tight regulations that those monies HAD TO BE lent out to Main Street.
But Obama ignored them and went with the Fat Cat's dream ticket of Geithner and Bernanke.