Dennis Kucinich: Flawed US economy works against people.

[LongTomH]

Run time: 11:31 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4dS9tOP6hM   Posted on YouTube: November 12, 2010 By YouTube Member: RussiaToday Views on YouTube: 310   Posted on DU: November 12, 2010 By DU Member: LongTomH Views on DU: 612

 
From Russia Today comments: "Republican victories in the recent US mid-term elections have highlighted the growing dissatisfaction with the current government. RT spoke with Democrat Congressman Dennis Kucinich about the challenges the US is facing. ­"What we had was that Wall Street dictated a bailout. Wall Street dictated the terms of reforms. Wall Street was getting their banks taken care of and Main Street was losing jobs, income dropping, losing homes, and people are going to hold the party in power responsible - which is what they did," Dennis Kucinich said. Kucinich said that the structure of the US economy just does not work anymore for an average working person. "The American economic system, when it comes to delivering food to the practical aspirations of Americans, is falling apart," he said. "The economic system itself is the problem, and whether it's a Democrat or a Republican in charge of it, look, it is a faulty vehicle right now." Kucinich added, "America has to go through a restructuring, because frankly, the way the economy is set up right now, is against the working people, it is against the middle class." He said that if Republicans and Democrats, the two major parties which have a responsibility to the American people, fail to deliver in the following two years - the tidal forces of voter anger are going to wash both parties out."

Interesting interview. It's really unfortunate that we have to go to Russia Today to get interviews like this.

[mmonk]

1. RT has lots of interviews like this.

Thanks.

[truedelphi]

2. K & R as usual for anything said by Kucinich

Somewhere in some alternate universe, he is the President of the USA.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. +1000!

Nice thought and I agree... :patriot: :hi:

[OHdem10]

3. Absolutely, the way it is structured favors the Affluent which leads

to Rich getting Richer and Poor getting poorer
and the Middle-Class disappearing.

[RZM]

4. You know what's even more unfortunate?

The fact that RT is funded by the Russian government. The same government that has slowly but surely put the screws to the press in Russia itself, especially on television, where most Russians get their news. That's particularly bad, since the Russian government is more or less an authoritarian regime and is thus enabled and strengthened by the restricted media climate, which the government itself is responsible for creating. Yet they have the balls to turn around and fund an English-language station that dedicates most of its programming to telling us how god-awful things are here. It's hypocrisy of the highest order and should be condemned by all those who think Russia deserves a genuine free press.