Are the wars killing the economy along with jobs and people?

Pat Porter

‎'Obama chose the Wall Street Agenda over solving the problems of the people'...I would like to focus on that remark for a moment. The problems of the people are directly connected to the health of our economy. Would have rathered that the... banks fail? Would you rather have more people unemployed because the banks went belly up...which were the conditions the proceeded the last depression? Your argument is not logical. FDR created jobs through programs like WPA, Conservation Corp. and many others...and that is what we will have to do soon in order for people to get jobs and participate in this economy. What you are proposing may seem honorable to you but in my opinion is foolish at best. All it will do is give the GOP one more chance to screw us even more. There are no progressive candidates prepared to run, unless I am missing something here.

Alan L. Maki

We don't know who might be prepared to run yet.
I have from day one been pushing for WPA and CCC type programs... anyone can go read my blogs.
You miss the point completely, Pat; the point is YOU are not asking or answering the most important... question of all:
How is Obama's and the Democrats' war economy working for YOU?
There isn't any economy under any economic system that can survive a war economy.
This country has been on a war economy since World War II.
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have cost us more than World War II and have gone on twice as long.
Obama and the Democrats are pushing these wars to continue... for our own livelihoods and a better world we need to push the masters of war and the merchants of death and destruction from public office--- and this includes the foremost warmonger of our times... Barack Obama who has had every opportunity and the full support of the American people to bring an end to these wars that kill jobs just like they kill people.
Pat, do you really expect any thinking person to believe that the main and primary reason for this failing economy is not these wars? Financing these wars has taken money from the pockets of working people and severely restricted the money they have to spend.
If this same amount of money was spent on WPA, CCC and social programs like a public health care system and a national public childcare system these programs solving the problems of working people would create well over twenty-million good-paying jobs and we would have a very robust economy.
Pat, you state:
"FDR created jobs through programs like WPA, Conservation Corp. and many others...and that is what we will have to do soon in order for people to get jobs and participate in this economy."
I agree... but, why don't you explain where the money for these programs is going to come from?
Again, it is Obama and the Democrats spending money on wars instead of spending our taxes how they should be spent... just how you suggest.
Let me tell you a little fact, Pat; It doesn't make one dime's bit of difference if it is Democrats or Republicans voting to spend our money on these wars--- they are the same dirty wars funded by the exact same money.
In a very round about way; you have made my point.
If we can't find the progressive candidates to run... I would suggest we all just bend over; put our heads between our legs; and kiss our butts good-bye.