How’s All that Hope-n-Change Doin’?
Wednesday 25 May 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized
This may be why West’s comments provoked such a reaction. Very few of West’s critics focused on his policy critiques, how he pointed out that Obama continued imperialist policies and Rubin-style predatory economics. They focused on the messenger. But if you look at Barack Obama’s transition website, or listened to his campaign rhetoric, you’ll find a host of now broken promises. For instance, Obama promised to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour and index it to inflation. He hasn’t done that — the wage compression of the last forty years remains unaddressed. He said everyone would have decent health care by the end of his first term. How many uninsured will remain by 2012? Millions. He promised to reverse tax cuts for the wealthy. Instead we hear talk of deficits and slashed funding for social programs after a trillion dollar Bush-Obama tax cut. And he promised to deal with the foreclosure crisis by reforming bankruptcy laws. He hasn’t done so, and so lenders are repossessing a little over 2300 homes a day.
The taste of progressive tears is so yummy.
2011-05-25 » madlibertarianguy