It never ceases to amaze me that there are working people out there who have actually fallen for the Tea Party's line of bull that any health care legislation will harm the middle class.  By "Teabagger" logic, preventing a government provided safety net from ever happening that would provide health care to working people, even in the case of prolonged job loss is a good thing.  That the Teabag puppet masters can get any working person to listen to them for even one second is a tribute to the media-corporate complex that we have in place in the good old USA. They give the Teabaggers plenty of face time on the six o' clock news and never mention that the movement isn't a populist one, it's just a case of media manipulation that would make a cold war Soviet politician blush.

That same line of reasoning applies to working people living in "right to work" states who say that they are anti-union. They are so convinced, mainly by their employers, that unions are taking away the "right" to be non-union from them that they are doomed to work for whatever pay and in whatever working conditions the "boss" decides is fair.  Oh, did I mention that the "boss" can also fire them at will with little or no recourse. 

So Wade, what are you driving at? I feel that the only way the American dream is ever going to return for working people is for unions to return to power in this country.  The reason Europeans have a higher standard of living than us in all the ways that are meaningful to the working person is that they have strong unions. European unions are respected by European companies and in some cases may even have direct input on company policy.  That sounds like the real American dream to me, not the bogus one we now have here.
 
 
Since President Obama has firmly stated his position during his meeting with the Republicans, I want to revisit the healthcare issue and ask him to push for single payer healthcare.  Please visit my  Listen Here! page to hear more.
 
 
Now that you've shown the Republicans that you are in America's driver's seat, you should deal with a more insideous group of people, the blue dog Democrats.  I like to call them, the enemy within.

Frankly, the blue dogs need some Democratic agenda obediance training, Obama style.  Wouldn't you like to get all of the blue dogs in a public meeting and give them the same kind of consciousness raising session that you gave the Republicans?
Don't channel Reagan for that session, just channel Teddy Roosevelt.  If you hold the blue dogs up to the blinding light of  publicity and truth, they will do whatever you say.

Please straighten them out. After eight years of George Bush, we want our electeds to be Democrats, not Republican Lites.
 
 
President Obama, your meeting with the Republicans was impressive, to say the least.  You calmly fielded and defused  every Republican argument while enjoying every minute of it.  You looked Presidential and they looked petty and foolish.

I can't tell you how thrilled I am that you finally realize that you don't need to beg members of the party of NO, the party that gave us eight years of Bush's assaults on the constitution  and Corporatism for a consensus.  You are finally using the  bully pulpit in a way that would make Teddy Roosevelt proud.

Mr. President, keep up the good work and working people will back you one hundred percent.  Oh, before I close this thing out, I do have a few requests:
1- Push for full national health care, it's the moral thing to do.
2- Let's develop a crash program to bring the manufacture of consumer goods back to the USA.
3- Let's do something to help unions proliferate to reverse years of damage to the middle class that started during the Reagan administration.

Thank you for your time.
Humbly Yours,
Jack Wade

 
 
What did you think of President Obama's State Of The Union Address?  My impression was that he is is finally going to address some of the needs of the middle class.  I have a few items that he could add to his to do list that would go a long way towards making things more equitable for the middle class and poor. To hear them visit my Listen Here! page.
 
 
Now that the Supreme court has given corporations certain inalienable rights, what will that do to your rights?  Visit my Listen Here! page to find out.
 
 
I'm sure the bloated mega corporations who now consider themselves the shadow government of the US are jumping with joy over today's Supreme Court decision.  Justice Roberts and  company have done something that can only happen in a Frankenstein movie; they brought corporations to life and gave them rights that used to only belong to flesh and blood people. Corporations are now constitutionally entitled to the right of free speech. 

Laws that limit the amount of money a corporation can spend on political advertising no longer apply because the court says they restrict a corporation's right of free speech.  Corporations can now buy the politician of their choice by financing their campaign ads.  When politicians are bought and sold, a mere vote  means nothing. 

Congratulations Supreme Court, you have done what no invading army has ever been able to do; you have tossed 233 years of American freedom into the circular file and turned the USA over to it's new rulers, the corporations.
 
Bully Pulpit! 01/18/2010
 
The term Bully Pulpit refers to the power that a President has to champion public interest causes and legislation. That power is strongest at the beginning of a presidential term.   To see how our current President used that bully pulpit, visit the  Listen Here! page.
 
 
What kind of an economic system do we have these days in the USA?   I say we have neither capitalism or socialism.  For your lesson in Wadeonomics, visit my Listen Here! page.
 
 
Many corporations, especially the ones that are "too big to fail" think that what's good for them is good for America, I beg to differ!  So will you after you visit my  Listen Here! page.