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This was the subject of a thread in LBN yesterday, but the video should be seen.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz is full of baloney. Along with crooked banks and major fossil fuel polluters -- and let's not forget Debbie's pal, your friendly neighborhood payday lender -- let's invite private prison corporations and mercenary service corporations like
The American and world economy is in crisis because of entire industries that should be done away with. Private prisons, mercenaries and payday lenders have no more right to exist than an unregulated recreational drug industry or unregulated loan sharks, which is what a payday lender is and DWS wants to keep it that way. I'd rather have heroin legalized than private prisons or mercenary service companies as those are industries than strive on high crime rates and international tensions. A legalized dope industry would be easier to regulate and contain, while private prisons and mercenaries would demand criminals to fill their prisons and wars, wars and more wars and
Speaking of pointless wars, there are more reasons than anthropogenic climate change to want to do away with fossil fuels. The oil companies should stop lying about it; we know that knew about the dangers of climate change before the public did and immediately launched a PR campaign to deny there was any problem at all. We should make every effort to supplement and eventually supplant fossil fuels with wind and solar power in the next thirty years. If we had begun this process forty years ago, we'd done by now and the world would be a much better place with more blue sky and green grass.
Banking by its nature is a parasitic industry; it produces no wealth and only serves to move money around, which could be a useful enterprise when properly regulated. The notion that banks create wealth by making loans is nonsense in the best circumstances and dangerous sophistry when combined with quantitative easing (i.e., the Federal Reserve prints money and gives it to the banks at zero percent interest), as is the case now. Money is not wealth, it is a convenient medium of exchange and nothing more. Through quantitative easing, at least the Fed keep the bank from lending money it doesn't have (that would be fraud), but it doesn't mean that there is no word for what happens when that money, printed without regard to an increase in goods and services, goes into general circulation and that word is inflation. There is no question that Wall Street banks should be re-regulated by returning to the status quo ante prior to 1999 when the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act became law and, in addition, the banks broken up to reduce the likelihood that a failure of one too-big-to-fail financial institution will drag the rest of the economy down with it. If that doesn't look like an adequate solution, then we can always nationalize the financial industry, which might be the ultimate solution to any parasitic industry.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)were stabbed in the back. And of course the Super Delegates means the party doesn't need to listen to the people.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Omaha Steve
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Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Because that is exactly what I thought.
She really ain't a Democrat.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)says it all
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)This old man needs new glasses.
Thanks, Tomm.
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)perhaps a remixed version or 'greatest hits'
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)If DWS wants to write satire at her own expense for Funny or Die, the more power to her,
tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)they probably are putting together something themselves and she's an obvious source of material - not very good on the fly or under pressure
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Never bodes well for the stability of the tent.
Poor, big tent. Poor, poor, tent.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I assume she really means a tent big enough for "both the left and the right" easy mistake to make Debbie when one is basically a Republican running as a Democrat in Florida.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I don't like Republicans even when they call themselves Democrats.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Lost a bunch of House seats, the Senate and over 900 state seats while Chair of the DNC
Supported Republicans over Democrats in two Florida districts
Conceded entire districts to the Louis Gohmerts and Joni Ernsts of this world by abandoning the 50-state strategy
Supported a Republican retread for the Florida Democratic Party Gubernatorial candidate (he lost to Rick Scott, again)
Undermined President Obama's treaty with Iran
Shilled for the private prison industry
Shilled for the booze industry
Shilled for the payday loan industry
Blamed the voters for her failures
Now she's inviting the same oligarch that own the Republican Party into the Democratic Party. Fuck that!!
Jackilope
(819 posts)The choices:
1. fight for and get back to our platform and have vision (Sanders)
2. let them steamroll over us and pretend they are Democratic (Clinton)
3. ?????
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Now we're a pebble in their shoe and they'd like to rid themselves of us, except when they want our votes. Their only case is "Republicans are worse," which is true, but how much worse is arguable.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)The Third Way (formerly known as the DLC) think we're "sheeple." We're not. That's just the contempt they have for us. The problem with the Democratic Party is that it was subjected to a hostile takeover by a group led by Al Fromm who aren't democrats.
Thespian2
(2,741 posts)DWS means Dems Were Screwed...I like how you present her combined failures...
MisterP
(23,730 posts)this is actually "rightsizing" since they figure that they have purging challengers down to a science and can win with a bunch of unconditionals you can do literally anything you want to
Vote2016
(1,198 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)djean111
(14,255 posts)depending on who wins the nomination. The air in the tent is starting to really stink.