Monday, 7 January 2013

My last post on Democratic Underground - no wonder I got banned

I support drastic reductions in military spending and Corporate welfare. 

I support better living standards for the poor and middle classes. 

I support better job prospects for all Americans. 

I support addressing the balance between record Corporate profits and 40 year lows in real median wages and rapidly increasing poverty. The trend needs reversing - dramatically. 

I support increasing social mobility. America has one of the worst records of social mobility anywhere in the developed world. 
http://www.oecd.org/centrodemexico/medios/44582910.pdf See chart on page 187 

I support wealth creation and a wide distribution of that wealth. 

I support a thriving middle class. 

I am against pre-emptive war. I advocate a Jeffersonian foreign policy. 

I support making Healthcare in America more efficient and affordable. 

I am against the farcical prohibition of drugs which costs US taxpayers $200bn a year and massively increases criminality, corruption and violence on the streets. And it creates more hard drug addicts. 

I am against the class warfare justice system. The poor can get 20 years jail time for minor drugs possession. When was the last time you heard of a Wall St banker getting jailed for snorting cocaine? 

I am against the banks being above the law. 
I am in favor of reinstating Glass-Steagal and the big banks getting broken up. 
I believe the banks should be prosecuted for their frauds and money laundering and top execs should get long stretches of hard jail time for their crimes. 

I am against large multinationals getting tax breaks, when small and medium businesses do not. There should be a level playing field. 

I am against Oligarchies. 

I support drastic Campaign Finance Reform. 
I support getting money out of politics. 
I am against the system of lobbying and the revolving door between government, lobbyists and big business. 

These are some of the things I support and are against. 

What do you support? 

Addendum

Barack Obama does not support any of the things I support. No wonder I got banned.

N.B. This article was previously posted on my blog but mysteriously got deleted along with a couple of other articles about the Fiscal Cliff deal.  

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