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Paul Buchheit reports via AlterNet
While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who conspired with Goldman Sachs to make billions of dollars on the planned failure of subprime mortgages was honored by New York University for his "Outstanding Contributions to Society".
This is one example of the distorted thinking leading to the demise of a once-vibrant American society. There are other signs of decay:
- A House Bill Would View Corporate Crimes as "Honest Mistakes"
- Almost 2/3 of American Families Couldn't Afford a Single Pill of a Life-Saving Drug
- Violent Crime Down; Prison Population Doubles
- One in Four Americans Suffer Mental Illness; Mental Health Facilities Cut by 90 Percent
- The Unpaid Taxes of 500 Companies Could Pay for a Job for Every Unemployed American ...for two years ...at the nation's median salary of $36,000 ...for all 8 million unemployed.
Citizens for Tax Justice reports that Fortune 500 companies are holding over $2 trillion in profits offshore to avoid taxes that would amount to over $600 billion. Our society desperately needs infrastructure repair, but 8 million potential jobs are being held hostage beyond our borders.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday December 08 2015, @11:27PM
As someone already pointed out. Obama is pretty far right by most of the world's standard.
And every time Obama decided to consider some right-wing ideas, the GOP had to go further right to keep the Absolute Opposition Stance.
Most of the GOP would now make Le Pen (the extreme-rightist who just won the French local elections) feel either at home, if not a bit too commie.
And still, the media doesn't call them on what everyone else can see.
Almost anywhere else in the world, Clinton would get elected with better than 82/18 (Le Pen dad's loss in the presidential run-off)