BEING LEFT WITH THE LAUNDRY
Obama's DOJ has been little more than the legal face of his community organizer past and a political operative in service to the political agenda and ideology of this president and his administration. Exactly NOT what the Department of Justice should be all about.
Yes, he could have done better. But in his first tenure, we, the sheeple, (that is the 37% of us that voted in the 2010-midterms) cut him off at the legs by giving the HofR over to the Replicants. A PotUS cannot "execute" policy all alone - both Chambers of Congress are necessary to assist.
So, Obama made the choice in his first term to "lay off" BigMoney, simply because he needed "the muney" to get reelected. That's the way our political system works:
Candidates obtain their elected positions with money borrowed from vested interests! Without the funding, they can't buy TV commercials, and in the US (almost uniquely) TV commercials "sell" candidates. (Not all countries fund their elections in this manner. See the WikiPedia article:
Campaign advertising.*)
Of course, they are beholden - at least in the first-term - to those who "funded" their campaign.
The AG, in Obama's second-term, went after the Banksters and they were made to pay gigantic fines for their Toxic Waste lapses.
But not one went to jail for fraud.
And the Replicants were in no mood to help Obama get the US out of the worst recessions since the 1930s. In fact, they did everything to produce his defeat in 2012. Puerile Politics did not work that time around, did they.
And America went on for another two years of no or very little job-creation at an Employment-to-population Ratio of 58.5%, down from its high-point of 63% before the Toxic Waste Mess. I repeat the Standard Economic Medicine for such circumstances, called Stimulus Spending - which the HofR steadfastly refused to past. (Out of some ignoramus reasoning about the National Debt.)
It would help, from time to time, to keep in mind that
history in America is NOT five minutes ago, and Ancient History is NOT yesterday ...
When a country makes such a monumental mistake regarding economic policy, it suffers the consequences. Which meant for Americans this:
from the midterms in 2010 to 2014, without Stimulus Spending, America created no jobs that put people back to work!. (Factual proof-positive from the Bureau of Labor Statistics here:
here.)
My Point? Every two years, at election time, just turn-off the political-commercial nonsense on the BoobTube. Concentrate on the fundamental political/economic issues of the day. All candidates want you to think they "Wash whiter than white!".
History has proven that most do not - but we, the sheeple, are left with the dirty laundry ...
*Excerpt:
In 1964, aggressive advertising paved the way for a landslide Johnson victory. One of the first negative and maybe the most controversial commercial, perhaps of all time, was an advertisement dubbed "The Daisy Girl." The commercial showed a young girl picking the petals off a daisy. After she finishes counting, a voice off camera begins a countdown to a nuclear explosion. The ad ends with an appeal to vote Johnson, "because the stakes are too high for you to stay home." The commercial used fear and guilt, an effective advertising principle, to make people take action to protect the next generation.
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