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Taxing the Wealthy Is Good Politics for the Democratic Party
Peace,
emaycee
Showing posts with label War on Drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War on Drugs. Show all posts
Saturday, July 31, 2021
Raising the bar on stupid: no wonder Arizona is turning blue
Sunday, February 9, 2014
It's the jobs, stupid
The editors at AlterNet got together and made a list of the ten failures of President Obama that make them angriest. It is the usual litany of complaints you'd expect from those of us on the left--failure to prosecute big banks, the drone programs, NSA surveillance, the President's too easy and often capitulation to republicans, among others.
You know what the list doesn't contain? The single failure that should make all Democrats angriest--the administrations inability to improve the jobs market. Yes, I know a President in and of himself cannot create jobs, but he can sure push an agenda, and it's not as if President Obama didn't have the legacy of FDR and his public works as a guide. It isn't as if we don't need a lot of work on the country's infrastructure.
Look, the items noted by the editors at AlterNet (truly one of my favorite sites) are all well and good, but we on the left all too often fail to note that those issues, while important, aren't usually so with a majority of Americans. As we embark on the 2014 election cycle, you'd be hard pressed to come up with 10% of the American people who believe any of these failures to be among the most important issues of this year's elections.
The second greatest tragedy of Bill Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky (the first being the hurt he caused his family) was the good will of an excellent economy he wasted having to spend two years fighting the ridiculous republican impeachment fiasco. To think of the good he could have done for the country with an electorate full of Americans with good jobs and economic optimism.
If the editors at AlterNet really want Americans to make surveillance on Americans or racism in the war on drugs a priority, they'd do well to focus on the economic well-being of working class Americans.
Otherwise, they're very likely to stay too damn busy just trying to survive to care.
Peace,
emaycee
You know what the list doesn't contain? The single failure that should make all Democrats angriest--the administrations inability to improve the jobs market. Yes, I know a President in and of himself cannot create jobs, but he can sure push an agenda, and it's not as if President Obama didn't have the legacy of FDR and his public works as a guide. It isn't as if we don't need a lot of work on the country's infrastructure.
Look, the items noted by the editors at AlterNet (truly one of my favorite sites) are all well and good, but we on the left all too often fail to note that those issues, while important, aren't usually so with a majority of Americans. As we embark on the 2014 election cycle, you'd be hard pressed to come up with 10% of the American people who believe any of these failures to be among the most important issues of this year's elections.
The second greatest tragedy of Bill Clinton's dalliance with Monica Lewinsky (the first being the hurt he caused his family) was the good will of an excellent economy he wasted having to spend two years fighting the ridiculous republican impeachment fiasco. To think of the good he could have done for the country with an electorate full of Americans with good jobs and economic optimism.
If the editors at AlterNet really want Americans to make surveillance on Americans or racism in the war on drugs a priority, they'd do well to focus on the economic well-being of working class Americans.
Otherwise, they're very likely to stay too damn busy just trying to survive to care.
Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, September 7, 2013
A friend with weed
Well, lookee here--seems John McCain is beginning to wonder if maybe it's time to consider legalizing the use of marijuana.
You know the War on Drugs' days are numbered when a white guy who's old enough to have starred in "Reefer Madness" is beginning to question whether or not we should be legalizing hemp. Frankly, we've wasted a lot of time, effort, money and lives to have put absolutely no dent whatsoever in either the sales or usage of pot.
McCain's right (for once in his life)--it's time to end the charade and collect the billions in taxes that we're missing out on with a pointless crusade.
Peace,
emaycee
You know the War on Drugs' days are numbered when a white guy who's old enough to have starred in "Reefer Madness" is beginning to question whether or not we should be legalizing hemp. Frankly, we've wasted a lot of time, effort, money and lives to have put absolutely no dent whatsoever in either the sales or usage of pot.
McCain's right (for once in his life)--it's time to end the charade and collect the billions in taxes that we're missing out on with a pointless crusade.
Peace,
emaycee
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