Community | July 31, 2011 | 38 comments

Dennis Kucinich: How to avoid default and get the country out of debt

source: http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28925&Itemid=2

JanforGore
Here's a leader who speaks my heart. Stop the wars, the subsidies, the living high on our money and giving it all to the banks that use it to give themselves bonuses! INVEST in real jobs of the future and our environment and stop this class warfare where the rich think THEY are owed something and CORPORATIONS RUN THIS COUNTRY. I haven't said much on this but I am getting damned tired of this petulant BS. Congress has a couple of true leaders in its ranks. It's time they were listened to.

And remember this Congress, you hurt the working people of this country at your peril. Oh, and social security is not an entitlement. I WORKED to put MY money into it, and I want it back.
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38 comments // Dennis Kucinich: How to avoid default and get the country out of debt // Video

  • RevKen
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      RevKen  

    • I was a kid living in Wayne County OH when Mr. Kucinich was mayor of Cleveland. I remember all of the jokes made about him and Cleveland after the budget problems drove the city close to bankruptcy.

      I have anew respect for Mr. Kucinich in the last 5 or 6 years. He is still a nut but I like a lot of his ideas. From what I have heard about his years as Cleveland's mayor, he did the right things back then.

      Cleveland had a couple of tough years but when the crisis was over the rebuilding began. Today Cleveland is world class city. I just hope the Indians can make a run in the playoffs this year. It would also be nice if they brought professional football back to Cleveland.(I know they have a team but they ain't professional)

    • 10 months ago
  • FoosMaster
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      FoosMaster  

    • Yes we have a FEW good leaders like Dennis, Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, etc... but we need more and I hope the people will be motivated enough in the next elections to actually give us a few more that could make the difference.

    • 10 months ago
  • remanns
  • cmc101
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      cmc101  

    • you only paid your half of social security the other guy spent the other half and you have become worth less. They used your money to buy swaps

    • 10 months ago
  • Georgia_Jim
  • Persecuted
  • nikonwilly
  • TrishR
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      TrishR  

    • If the repugs really have their panties in such a bunch about deficits, how come none of them even mention this?

      The GOP so likes to talk about how the government should budget as families do at the kitchen table. Families like that of Joe Walsh - "Hey family, we don't have enough income to afford my taking my girlfriend on vacations to Mexico & Italy, so, kids, you're on your own."

    • 10 months ago
  • warman1138
  • Wyley_Wombat
  • lazloman
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  
    • lazloman:

      What HorseManure, if you care about people you make them pull themselves up by their bootstraps just.... like....... the.......... Kochs..................... did.........................Uh Oh, I see a problem here.

    • 10 months ago
  • TrishR
  • Milieu
  • remanns
  • TrishR
  • TrishR
  • remanns
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      remanns  
    • TrishR:

      I would have to go in drag for that option, . . . .

      ( hmmmmmmm,.....there we go with the dragging again.......... )

      - tangential / tan-genital ; him say "hmmmmmmmm" and she say "shhhhhhhhhhh" ?

    • 10 months ago
  • remanns
  • Milieu
  • Milieu
  • Georgia_Jim
  • AmericanStandard
  • jubal
  • Richard_Wyatt
  • GRC54
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      GRC54  

    • I remember in the 70's when the dems use to have telethons to raise money for the DNC to win elections.
      Where have all the balls of the democratic party vanish to?
      Why is it that when the Elephants in congress sound off they, the Democrats cower in a corner?
      What is needed is a Democratic Tea Party movement. A real Tea Party movement to unseat the tea baggers that only wish to take down this country and give it to whom ever has the deepest pockets for their benefit, to stay in power.

    • 10 months ago
  • AmericanStandard
  • Georgia_Jim
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      Georgia_Jim  
    • GRC54:

      The Blue Dog dems make all the Dems look weak because they always cave to the Republicans!! It is time to run some progressive against them!!!! I really believe they would win against these fake Dems!!!!

    • 10 months ago
  • DudleyDooleft
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      DudleyDooleft  

    • True, true, true, well said by Congressman Kucinich! But those in power do not and will not hear it. His words make it very clear, the absurdity of the current trumped up crisis being financed by the corporate elite. We the people have to get off our asses and do something about it.

      Play it again, and again, his words are true. Look what they are doing to our country, it's not the so called Tea Party causing all of this trouble, they are just the convenient scape goat dummies of the moment, it is the Koch Bros. and the like. When will we say we have had enough? When will we demonstrate that we have had enough?

      Thanks for the post Jan!

    • 10 months ago
  • TrishR
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      TrishR  
    • DudleyDooleft:

      You are so right about the Tea Party - all their ideas were rattling around the GOP for years. They let the frosh go out on a limb spouting this stuff on TV so if any of these ideas provoke too much opposition, they can throw a couple of the frosh under the bus, so they look like they're responsive to what the people want.

    • 10 months ago
  • figgdimension
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      figgdimension  
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    • although i do like Kucinich he's only a drop in the bucket he's a part of the complicity of the party with no guts no spine no balls no where no hope no change elitist's and out of touch... voted /\ nice job

    • 10 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • figgdimension:

      "he's a part of the complicity of the party with no guts no spine no balls"

      All evidence to the contrary. He has more than most and has been consistent in speaking out. Bernie Sanders is in the same congress. Does your critique apply to him as well? At least they're speaking out which is more than can be said for many there. And I didn't post this because he is a Democrat. I posted this because he is speaking truth.

    • 10 months ago
  • figgdimension
  • Vic_Romano
  • jackhole
  • EmileZ
  • EmileZ
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      EmileZ [removed]  
    • EmileZ:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eahSlWrc9vU

      Part two.

      The banks work on a fractional reserve system. Look it up. The private banks are mostly parasites just like the insurance companies, but supported by the federal reserve, and a new element has been added... blackmail. If we are lax in our regulations as we have been and they act irresponsibly, we have to plunge the country into even more debt to bail them out and prop the rotten system up.

      Then we have to cut social programs to point that they are no longer effective, at which point they become privatized. Then they are totally wrecked and we have to bail them out again. This is what we have to look forward to. The results of the privatization of Fannie May and Freddie Mac spread over all public services.

      It is about as unsustainable as the way we are destroying the environment.

      I don't know what to hope for, but I generally don't indulge that way.

    • 10 months ago
  • DudleyDooleft
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