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In reply to the discussion: I am no longer a Democrat. [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Current Occupant of the WH.
One of them being some amazing leaps in car battery technology because of some Stim money that went to such industry. The other two being women's right to reproductive health, and also the ability to legally have an abortion.
But as far as many of the other things, here is what we have lost:
1) An economic system that has checks and balances. Such as was given to the nation by Congress and FDR during the Thirties. Now we have "Too Big To Fail" and it's corresponding "Too Big To Jail." Grow some state approved medical marijuana on your property, and the DOJ and ICE and local SWAT people will no doubt show up - and maybe you will get ten years in jail. But if you are an executive of HSBC, you can launder billions of dollars of drug cartel money,w with Obama's buddy Holder saying, "Well, what can we do - we certainly don't want to negatively affect the world's economy by punishing a Big Banker!"
Right now, 49 cents out of every dollar of profit goes directly to the coffers of the Big Bankers. SOme of these people are not even in our country! And while this happens, Obama offers up the gold plated Oval Office cufflinks. (Jamie Diman was wearing his present from eh resident when being interviewed by Congress.)
All f this is destroying the middle class. Are you trust fund baby? Are you a Wal;kl Street guru?" If you are not either of those two, you really need to wake the hell up!
2) Environmental record worthy of the Love Canal era medal of environmental destruction.. This man's environmental record is deplorable. In the wake of two catastrophes, the President let the Big Energy industry rest on its laurels and protected them.
Gulf Oil Spill that devastated the Gulf of Mexico. President Obama let BP take charge of the cleanup, and he also allowed BP to see to it that reporters had a difficult time getting inside the area of devastation. That current policy exists today inside the region where the Tennessee Exxon spill is destroying entire neighborhoods. And when this BP Disaster occurred, it should have brought about a wholesale sweeping out of the corrupt officials who are tied into the industry yet have places of power at the various oversight agencies. Yet that didn't happen.
Big Oil Companies UBER ALLES!
Then came the catastrophe presented by Fukushima. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W's footsteps, Obama saw to it that the standards of radiation deemed to be safe were RAISED so that we citizens could be told we were safe, even as blankets of radiation settled on Alaska and The Pacific Coast and even inland. Again, Big Nuke Power UBER ALLES!
3) Then we have the Continual Surveillance Regime, with the continuing repression of our civil rights. Occasionally Janet Neapolitano made a decent decision, but we still get harassed as it is an extension of the War on Drugs. Homeland Security and the DEA and DOJ now have the "right" (or so they say), to go about our cities and highways, puling people over, for the slightest suspicion of drugs or whatever.
The nation apparently has no money for its schools, infra structure, libraries fire districts etc, but plenty of money for the MRAP Bearcats, which are being produced to distribute to American cities and counties. Sixty seven counties in California have already been encouraged to order one of them - at a cost to our government of one million bucks a piece!