A posting I made on In These Times

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/discuss/6611/why_democrats_got_shellacked/

 

Obama's policies created more profits for Wall Street than what pitifully few jobs have been created.

In fact, it is time for the left, which has always been the catalyst and driving force behind real meaningful change and reforms to bring forward an agenda that is an alternative to the reactionary agendas of each of Wall Street's political parties.

It is time to challenge this backwards and reactionary thinking that private industry and small business must be assisted in creating jobs.

Government should not be in the business of assisting and funding private industry and small businesses in creating jobs--- in fact, private industry and small business are responsible for the massive unemployment we have in this country.

If the present economic system doesn't work--- and it doesn't--- the time has come to talk about the socialist alternative as we--- liberals, progressives and the left--- push an agenda for real change that will create jobs financed by taxing the hell out of the rich and corporate profits and redirecting funding from war and militarism towards meeting the needs of the people.

There is only one way to create fifteen-million to 20,000,000 jobs in this country: put people to work solving the problems of working people.  

Health care is a mess; Obama's "Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industry Bailout and Profit Maximization Act of 2010" should be repealed... just because the Tea Baggers and the Republicans call for its repeal doesn't mean it shouldn't be repealed.

To solve the health care mess we need a National Public Health Care System providing the American people with free health care through the creation of some 30,000 neighborhood health care clinics and centers served by 800 bases of support offering the most advanced health care... instead we are paying for 800 U.S. military bases dotting the globe for the sole purpose of protecting Wall Street's interests and two costly, immoral, illegal and unconstitutional wars for the long-term occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan--- ten-million jobs.

We also need a National Public Child Care System providing free child care to working class families--- another 5,000,000 jobs. 

Government, in spite of what a bunch of right-wingers say who are first in line to receive government benefits while condemning government, are going to oppose government expansion into health care and child care like--- so what? The same forces were opposed to Social Security, the minimum wage and unemployment insurance... but, none of these right-wing Tea Baggers turn down the help from these huge government programs... all of which, like public education, create millions of public sector jobs.

The Democrats deserved to lose because they failed to support these kinds of programs... instead they peddled the exact same line as Republicans of subsidizing private industry and small business to create jobs when they are killing the jobs that exist--- often shipping the jobs overseas when not just forcing fewer workers to work harder and for longer hours with lower pay and less benefits.