Obama's Last-Minute Trade Pitch To Dems May Have Backfired

[davekriss]

37. Why would any American President...

...never mind a Democratic President who, according to Poltical Compass in 2008, was only slightly right of center, push ANY legislation that "displaces" workers?

We need a government that - minimum - will directly invest and encourage private capital to invest in infrastructure and human capital, not one that pushes policies that benefit the few at the cost of the many.

But then there's that darn Princeton study that points out we do not have a democracy anymore, we live under the rule of the oligarchs and the political class are their servants.

On edit: "...pushes policies that benefit the few...": The policies increase the rate of return on capital by reducing the costs of labor and regulation. Um, the vast majority of us, 99% of us, are in fact "labor" - where did we sign up for a government that is willing to reduces our wages to bolster profit for the 1%? Where did we sign up to have our air polluted, our water besmirched, our medicines kept outrageously expensive, just so the capitalist can accumulate more capital?