Forget Health Care: Big Issue For Voters Is Financial Reform

[dkf]

It’s not health care, stupid.

It’s financial reform.

That’s what matters the most to voters.

“This is the really compelling issue for most Americans. We just had our financial lives wrecked by the financial crisis and picked up the tab for it,” says Mike Calhoun, president of the Center for Responsible Lending. “I’ve said this to a number of senior administration officials: They should have done this first. The main dynamic we have seen for well over a year is that health care issues have sucked all the oxygen out of the room.”

Not anymore, as the Senate finally begins to take up a complex package of reforms, a powerful lobbying battle is underway, pitting consumer groups and unions on one side and business on the other.

And unlike, heath care, where polls show people divided, ambivalent and even confused about the subject, a majority of voters on both sides of the political aisle support financial reform—and in particular, the creation of a watchdog, dubbed the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.


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[Vinnie From Indy]

1. After HCR, I will venture we will see another awesome display of corporate power in our government

It would seem obvious that if Big Pharma and Big Insurance can engineer the passage of such a sweetheart bill with HCR, we are truly screwed in regard to financial reform. After that, we will get screwed by big oil/coal/gas in regard to cap/trade-global warming issues.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Don't forget immigration "reform".

Which, after Big Bidness is done with it, will be mostly a massive conduit of slaves uh "guest workers" for corporations.