Obama has done nothing to help working people-He hasn’t lifted a damn finger

[Teamster Jeff]

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People are frustrated with the government, frustrated with their jobs, frustrated with their shitty, stagnant wages, frustrated with their
droopy incomes, frustrated with their ripoff health care, frustrated with living paycheck to paycheck, frustrated with their measly
cat-food retirement plan, frustrated with their dissembling, flannel-mouth president, frustrated with the fact that their kids can’t find jobs, and frustrated with the prevaricating US media that keeps palavering about that delusional chimera called the American Dream.
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The American people know what’s going on. They’re not as dumb as the jowly, stuffed-shirt pundits on CNBC and Bloomberg think. They can see beyond the lies and political bloviating. They know their goose is cooked. That’s why they’re so depressed, because they feel powerless. Pessimistic, frustrated and powerless. And for good reason.
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http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/02/07/the-american-dream-is-dead/

[Autumn]

1. I agree that the American Dream is dead. I disagree for the most part that Obama killed it.

I think it was a bipartisan effort.

[jwirr]

2. Where were the Teamsters Union when we needed them against raygun. This mess did not start in

2008. I do not see this as being Obama's fault. It is the fault of the obstructionists that descend from trickle down raygun, corporations, teabaggers, the 1% and rw religions.

Frustrated and angry - yes but not at Obama.

[Teamster Jeff]

3. The mess didn't start in 2008

but many assumed a turnaround in 2008. Instead we got a status quo loving corporate tool. Hence the killing of the dream.

[jwirr]

5. The corporate tool is the part of congress that is obstructing everything that is worth passing.

[Historic NY]

4. I hope you get better from the GOP........

since they put up most of the road blocks. Embrace them and their god Paul Ryan the ones that pulled the carpet out of the economy.

[Teamster Jeff]

6. So the choice is Dangerous vs Useless

Not much of a choice.

[msongs]

7. ah yes, the DU choice: the real republican or the "liberal" republican n t

[kickysnana]

8. Union leadership, not unions is also to blame in this...

My ex husband as a teamster dispatcher in the 1970's was put out of work in solidarity strike many times when the truckers went on strike but when they finally needed to strike not for wages but changes in the industry targeting smart strong union people the truckers treated them like red-headed step children. Eventually many strong unions backed political corporatists and sat back and expected to coast on their success rather than continuing to fight for a balance of labor/management as things changed, not adapting to new strategies, not calling out those who were leading them astray, not expanding their base

The old strategies, were a gold mine for propaganda against unions and they failed at recruiting smarter. strong young thinkers and leaders. In the 60's I could not convince my blue collar tech Dad that the only reason he had job security and benefits was due to the corporation wanting to keep the unions out. They still taught farmer labor history in the schools in Minnesota then. As soon as the unions started weakening by 1980 it went downhill fast until we have job slavery and our standard of living is in the crapper. What has happened has left me with a feeling of great loss and resolve to continue to speak out.

It will be a tough fight but effective unions are necessary in a free society. There is no other way.

[Smarmie Doofus]

10. "Union leadership". +1. Add UFT and AFT to that list. n/t

[Omaha Steve]

9. Obama saves 1 million mostly union jobs

Remember the auto bankruptcies? We have a working NLRB. The stimulus cut into the lines of the unemployed. I used that for a new car and new energy efficient dishwasher. $ in the US economy and jobs too.

OS