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In reply to the discussion: Fucking Welfare Queens [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)The appointments say it all. Campaign on hope and change, then appoint the usual suspects to run things. That's about all there was to hope and change, empty campaign sloganeering.
The Republicans in congress had meetings with Bernanke to lobby him against providing assistance to states. So it could be claimed that it's the Republican's fault, but as you point out, Arnold couldn't get help from Geithner, who Obama appointed, also Obama kept Bernanke running the Fed, and there was very little if any pushback on Bernanke from our party to implement policies that would benefit the non-rich.
Amazing how the apologists around here overlook Obama's appointments, or suggest he couldn't have gotten better people confirmed. It's B.S., he appointed most of those people because they're his guys. 2nd term, if we're lucky enough to get one, will be pretty much the same. Great for the big corporations, MIC, prison systems, health insurance companies, big pharma, Wall St., not so great for the rest of us.