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In reply to the discussion: So... cuts to unemployment aid and food stamps [View all]EastHarlemGayDude
(10 posts)How anyone in this day and age can actually cite the constitution to explain why he can't do something. Funny, he seems to have no problem ignoring the constitution on domestic surveillance or indefinitely detaining Americans (but cross his heart and hope to die he won't do that), but dag nabbit, we draw the line at actually helping people. How about this: we actually acknowledge that the constitution is nothing more than toilet paper. Then, Obama takes money already appropriated for the military, divert a portion of that to food stamps, unemployment and any number of necessary items. Pay for the troops to come home, out of harm's way and give them money to sustain themselves until we can truly recover and they can have jobs. Tell the defense contractors they are just going to have to wait.
Then, to truly make the point, order the arrest of all officers and directors of the top 100 banks.
How is the chronic unemployment and starving of our fellow citizens not a national emergency? If a foreign cadre of people had done what the bankers and other 1%ers had done, we would consider this a national emergency without even single question.
Finally, taking part in this cancerous system is the very definition of futility. Voting is futile. Elections are meaningless. Until we as a people take to the streets in the millions, all of this policy talk is nothing but the intellectual ruminations best left to a college classroom.