How could it possibly be worse with a Republican in the White House?
There would be riots on the streets if a Republican even tried to do half of what Obama has done.
Obama is looking after the interests of big business.
He is a CORPORATIST - just like the GOP leaders - but he is able to get away with far more than the GOP ever could.
No senior bankers are in jail for the crimes they committed.
None have even been prosecuted.
The big banks are getting over $1tn a year in bailouts and Federal subsidies.
He insisted that ALL of the over $1.3tn of annual Corporate Welfare was retained in the Fiscal Cliff deal.
Handed the middle class and working poor a $200bn annual tax hike.
Gives over $1tn a year in subsidies, handouts and bailouts to the big banks.
Raised military spending by 50% over Bush.
Is now spending TRIPLE what the US spent during the cold war (inflation adjusted).
The military budget for 2012 was $1,219bn.
Signed the Monsanto Protection Act.
Has installed lots of senior ex-Monsanto staff in the FDA and elsewhere in government.
Lets big pharma make huge profits by charging exorbitant amounts for prescription drugs.
Spends $105bn a year on employing 7,000 private mercenaries in Iraq.
Spends 70% of the $85bn a year intelligence budget on private contractors.
Retains the Federal subsidies to the oil business, despite big oil having already had a decade of record profits
Continues with policies that mean a drastic decline in real wages and disposable incomes of ordinary people, while ensuring that large Corporations continue to make record profits.
Has proposed that social security and other benefits be linked to chained cpi which would effectively render them worthless in 10 or 20 years time.
Is in favor of :-
indefinite detention of Americans
kill lists - Americans are on them
the effective repeal of Posse Comitatus - allowing the military to perform law enforcement on the streets of American cities
Renewed the Patriot Act
Exponentially increased the NSA's Mass Surveillance programs to enable spying on EVERY American and their every move
Built a new $2bn data center in Utah for the NSA to store the vast amounts of data they are now collecting
Instituted a change to regulations so that the Pentagon could unilaterally take over dealing with "civil disturbances" without any permission or consent from the civil authorities
Did not even entertain the possibility of prosecuting Bush/Cheney for war crimes, crimes against humanity and lying to the American people.
He brushed it under the carpet as fast as he could.
I could go on.
You cannot blame the Republicans in Congress for the above.
Obama had a choice.
And he chose Corporations over ordinary people.
He does not sound much like a Democrat to me.
That's even before we get to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP).
TPP's agenda is to allow large corporations to over ride National Sovereignty and Laws.
It has been described as Nafta on steroids.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/first-congress-member-allowed-to-read-secret-treaty-says-there-is-no-national-security-purpose-in-keeping-this-text-secret-this-agreement-hands-the-sovereignty-of-our-country-over-t.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/6/14/breaking_08_pledge_leaked_trade_doc
There is no doubt that Barack Obama has been bought lock, stock and barrel by the big banks, arms companies, big pharma, Monsanto etc.
There is no doubt that Barack Obama is a CORPORATIST not a Democrat.
Both the GOP and the Dem leadership are Corporatists too.
All but a handful of people in Congress are Corporatists looking out for big business and to hell with the people (and their civil rights).
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