[Peace-discuss] Americans Would Be Worse Off If Obama Were Defeated, WAS: Why we should vote (& much more) against Obama
"E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森"
ewj at pigsqq.org
Sun Oct 28 20:17:57 UTC 2012
I will admit that for some, voting for Obot or the Zombie is indeed
courageous. Or maybe just plain fool-hardy.
On 10/29/12 3:04, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
> Yeah, it's a no-brainer... but sadly some voters have no brain (or
> heart... or courage).
>
> --- On *Thu, 10/25/12, Ricky Baldwin /<rbaldwin at seiu73.org>/* wrote:
>
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> From: Ricky Baldwin <rbaldwin at seiu73.org>
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] Americans Would Be Worse Off If Obama
> Were Defeated, WAS: Why we should vote (& much more) against Obama
> To: "Alex Cline" <rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com>
> Cc: "peace-discuss at anti-war.net" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 6:03 PM
>
> CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH
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> Americans Would Be Worse Off If Obama Were Defeated
> [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/americans-would-be-worse-off-if-obama-is-defeated
> <http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/americans-would-be-worse-off-if-obama-is-defeated>]
> By Mark Weisbrot
> ________________________________________
> This article was distributed by McClatchy Tribune Information
> Services on October 24, 2012 and published by The Sacramento Bee
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> It was in the 1980 presidential contest that Ronald Reagan first
> asked the question, "Are you better off than you were four years
> ago?" It was a fitting introduction to the Age of Greed – don't
> think about your fellow citizens or your country or the world, was
> part of the message – and it ushered in the most massive upward
> redistribution of income and wealth that America has ever seen.
> Over the ensuing three decades the United States would become a
> much more unequal
> [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/minimum-wage-raise-is-the-least-we-can-do-to-civilize-america
> <http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/minimum-wage-raise-is-the-least-we-can-do-to-civilize-america>]
> society, where the majority of people could no longer aspire to a
> middle-class existence. The Reagan presidency itself was a
> disgrace in other respects too, making America infamous in the
> hemisphere for its sponsorship of genocide
> [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/clintons-apology-to-guatemala-is-a-necessary-first-step/
> <http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/clintons-apology-to-guatemala-is-a-necessary-first-step/>]
> and torture in Central America
> [http://files.uniteddiversity.com/More_Books_and_Reports/Noam_Chomsky-Turning_the_Tide
> _US_intervention_in_Central_America_and_the_Struggle_for_Peace.pdf] [pdf]
> and dictatorships
> [http://articles.latimes.com/1987-01-02/local/me-1475_1_human-rights]
> elsewhere.
>
> Now comes Mitt Romney in the Reagan tradition, hoping to win the
> presidency on the basis of America's weak economy over the past
> four years. But there are a number of problems with his argument.
> First, the obvious: President Obama didn't create the economic
> mess that we are looking at -- he inherited it from the previous
> government. Although both Democratic and Republican politicians
> contributed to the $8 trillion housing bubble that caused
> [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/books/the-end-of-loser-liberalism]
> the Great Recession, it cannot be blamed primarily on the
> Democrats and certainly not on Obama himself.
>
> The question then is whether the Obama Administration has done
> enough to turn things around in the past four years – and most
> importantly, whether Romney might do better. I have criticized
> President Obama for not pursuing a much larger stimulus, as have
> other economists
> [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/books/the-end-of-loser-liberalism]
> such as my colleague Dean Baker, and Nobel laureates Paul Krugman
> and Joseph Stiglitz. The federal stimulus only replaced about
> one-fifth of the private spending lost in 2009-2010 due to the
> bursting of the housing bubble; and half of this stimulus was
> canceled out by the budget tightening of state and local governments.
> However, the federal stimulus did create an estimated three
> million jobs
> [http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/papers/2010/wp10-17bk.pdf]
> [pdf] that would not otherwise have been there. The
> administration's rescue of the auto industry, also opposed by
> Romney and his party, probably saved another 1.5 to 2.5 million
> jobs
> [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/a-million-jobs.html].
> So, if you think that Obama didn't do enough in his first term,
> you would not want Romney for the next four years, because he and
> his party were opposed to the measures that actually did save
> millions of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars of income for
> Americans. In fact, the Congressional Republicans cut $100 billion
> [http://deanbaker.net/books/plunder-and-blunder-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-bubble-economy.htm]
> out of the federal stimulus package that would have gone to state
> and local governments so that they would not have pushed so many
> people into the unemployment lines, including teachers and
> firefighters.
>
> On the positive side, President Obama's health care reform
> [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/obama-health-care-reform-is-a-step-forward-hopefully-toward-medicare-for-all
> <http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/obama-health-care-reform-is-a-step-forward-hopefully-toward-medicare-for-all>]
> – which Mitt Romney wants to repeal – helps tens of millions of
> Americans. The most important provisions do not kick in until
> 2014, when some 30 million additional Americans will have health
> insurance, and people who have pre-existing health problems will
> not be discriminated against in obtaining insurance. Some of the
> provisions have already taken effect, for example allowing parents
> to keep their children on their insurance policies up to age 26.
>
> People might also want to take into account whether they will be
> better off four years from now if President Obama loses. Perhaps
> most worrisome are Romney's pledges to cut Social Security
> [http://www.mittromney.com/issues/social-security], the bedrock
> program that stands between most of our senior citizens and a life
> of poverty. He also wants to cut other important government
> programs in order to raise
> [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/10/22/the-full-transcript-of-the-third-presidential-debate/]
> military spending by $2 trillion over the next decade – while most
> of the country is really sick of our involvement in pointless
> wars. These are not policies that will make Americans better off
> four years from now.
> ________________________________________
>
> Mark Weisbrot [http://www.cepr.net/index.php/mark-weisbrot/]is
> co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in
> Washington, D.C He is also president of Just Foreign Policy
> [http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/].
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> From: occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net
> </mc/compose?to=occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net>
> [occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net
> </mc/compose?to=occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net>] On Behalf Of
> C. G. Estabrook [cge at shout.net </mc/compose?to=cge at shout.net>]
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:32 PM
> To: Alex Cline
> Cc: occupycu; peace-discuss at anti-war.net
> </mc/compose?to=peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] Why we should vote (& much more) against Obama
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> Maybe it comes from the position supporters of the administration
> have to assume in order not to notice its crimes.
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> On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:39 AM, Alex Cline <rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com
> </mc/compose?to=rev.a.r.cline at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > all this covert shilling I've been doing lately is putting my
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> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:14 PM, ya'aQov <yaaqovz at gmail.com
> </mc/compose?to=yaaqovz at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Rachel,
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> > ocCUpy's list is not moderated; Carl takes full advantage of
> that for his exploits; we each can moderate our inboxes by
> filtering his eMails to spam/delete; but he keeps coming with new
> eMail addresses, he's got the means; he also doesn't work 40 hours
> a week, and is not too tired to trick those who do and are too
> tired to keep creating filters.
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> > Income+health insurance-wise, Carl is not part pf the 47% and
> can afford any president; and as Shakespeare said ('Julius
> Caesar'), Carl is an honorable man.
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