It's worse than that. Politicians rely on large donors now & those same people for big bucks jobs when they leave office as corporate lobbyists, execs, overpaid speaking fees, & donations to their "charities." An efficient, purely government-run program can't offer bribes.
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That’s why no one has still gone to jail for the credit crunch. The corrupt system let them get away with it. You know your politicians and judicial system have failed in the most abject way possible when Trump becomes president and Segal is a ‘political envoy’. USA is a joke.
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Obama spent 8 years the same as pardoning the bank$ters that Bill Clinton empowered and Bush fueled, then insured their take with additional support for their hundreds of millions in personal weatlh. Cadet Flight Fairy's taking even more, pardoning his favorites. We are losing.
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Obama had an opportunity just short of FDR's to change our course: I remember after Obama was elected & before inauguration, one sheriff saying he wasn't going to enforce any more foreclosures until he saw what the president was going to do. That is hope. And it was misplaced.
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Is part of the problem that politics is now weak and all the power resides in the economic sphere as Yannis Varoufakis would say? Politics is now theatre particularly now. A Varoufakis lecture: invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=H38tZhPy… Does the US president weild the power of change anymore?

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Maybe when the rich retreat to their domed cities and underground bunkers to ride out climate change, they'll leave us alone to straighten things out.
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