On Thursday night, Obama could have called for a transformation of our economy from financialization to a real economy. But he didn’t. He could have called for taking the money we spend on our pointless wars and using it to hire millions of the unemployed. But he didn’t. He could have said that small businesses are the engines of job creation in this country and that the wizards of financialization have destroyed our economy. But he didn’t. He could have laid out a lot of good ideas, but he didn’t. Instead, he chose to lay out a plan that guts Social Security by reducing the tax paid by employees from 6.2% to 3.1% and, for the first time, also reducing the tax that employers pay, from 6.2% to 3.1%. I said last fall, when Obama reduced the payroll tax from 6.2% to 4.2% for employees that this was the proverbial camel’s nose under the tent. I was right. In a few more years, after the “progressive” Obama is re-elected, there won’t be any more funding for Social Security. When Social Security has to compete for funding with the war-mongers, guess which program will lose?

Obama. Bah!!! I’m sick of him and his rhetoric. He’s a Trojan Horse and the Republican Party’s dream Democrat.

When are we going to stop enabling the criminal political class in this country? When none of us has a pot to piss in? That’s way too late.

Here. Read this wonderful essay at the Kasuma Project, entitled On Radical Imagination: Humanity’s Most Urgent Need. It is a long essay and takes some time to read and digest, but if we can’t imagine a better future, how the hell are we going to get there? We certainly aren’t going to get there by voting for the same criminals that have gotten us into the mess that we are in.