After this coming election, I think that whatever is in store for us

[Horse with no Name]

by our corporate masters will certainly be in place and we won't have to wonder where this country is headed anymore. I just read where Obama is considering indentured servitude as his plan to "fix" unemployment. That took the rest of the wind out of my sails.

Right now, it feels like we are getting tag-teamed by republicans with a reciprocal Obama reacharound.

I kept hoping that SOMEONE would step forward to stop this madness....but it doesn't look like they will...which tells me that it is too late in the game.

We are truly fucked.

[upi402]

1. Stop the insanity is right

But even here, so many are blinded by bullshit and a pleasing smile.

We are truly fucked, and have been so for some time now.

[LonePirate]

2. Truer words have not been spoken (your tag team - reacharound comment)

[roamer65]

3. Here's what's in store for America's middle class.

Continued currency debasement that will turn their salaries into poverty level wages.

That is how the wealthy fascists are going to turn this country into a third world fascist regime.

[Horse with no Name]

9. I supposedly have one of the "good jobs"

but...a friend of mine is an RN at a major Dallas hospital, who less than 10 years ago, had no less than 40-50 openings a month come up.

Another friend, who is an RN, lost her job due to cutbacks. She asked the first friend if this major hospital had any GOOD jobs open. Friend replied by saying that there had been a hiring freeze for the last few months. When people left, positions weren't being refilled.

Now...are we to assume that a major transplant/trauma center in Dallas, TX all of the sudden doesn't need employees?
Or is it because more people are uninsured, more people are underinsured, or the hospital knows that they have their employees FEARFUL of losing their jobs and that makes a more compliant workforce?

I don't know the answer, but I find it quite frightening for my profession.

There isn't a hospital within 150 miles of where I live that is hiring RN's. That simply terrifies me.

[Eddie Haskell]

16. I hereby announce the "New Democrats"

Get your bumper stickers here:

Rich ass: :kick: it, or :P it

[ixion]

4. Yep. No need to worry even now. The Fix is In....

and we are wholly, deeply and truly screwed.

[myrna minx]

5. During the darkest times in the Bu$h years I always had the hope that if the Dems

returned to power, we'd get back on track and begin to move in a positive direction. I no longer have that delusion -for example - the EPA decision that the President took upon himself to do:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4982628

I didn't vote for that. *sigh*

[Poll_Blind]

I'm watching how things unfold between now and Jan 1, 2012. He will either deliver on his speech...

...or not. After all, he allegedly needs no interaction with Congress in order to enact his changes.

PB

[Davis_X_Machina]

6. Remind me....

...when precisely our corporate masters weren't in place.

I've been around since the Eisenhower administration, and I certainly can't remember it.

[EFerrari]

8. Wages haven't been so low since 1955, profits not so high since 1950

I read this morning. No wonder you're thinking about Ike.

[Davis_X_Machina]

10. The Left...

...throughout the developed world, is on a long -- decades-long -- secular decline.

I'm not sure what caused it, and I'm not sure what to do about it, but it's real, and people write books about it, and I'm pretty sure it didn't begin with Obama, and didn't end with him.

[EFerrari]

12. Yes, his presidency is looking to be a failure, that's right.

He hasn't engaged a single one of the most urgent problems we face.

[Davis_X_Machina]

13. The rooster on the dunghill....

...thinks his crowing makes the sun rise. Obama could have passed en bloc the Democratic Party platform, and the Left would still be, throughout the West, including the US, the same long-term, secular decline.

It would have been nice, but it would have been impossible, and the reasons why it'd have been impossible don't reduce to simple causes.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Can we get some detail on that.....

or should we all jump off the bridge now?

[villager]

11. Forget the bridge, Frenchie, but start thinking "barricades..."

;-)

[cwydro]

14. "reciprocal Obama reacharound"

Best analogy I've heard yet.

[tblue]

15. Indentured servitude?

Pls explain. I haven't heard that. But I agree. We didn't know we were the subjects of our own empire.

[Horse with no Name]

17. Read it and weep.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1863174