Reply #5: Rahm is not the president [View All]

[Sinti]

President Obama is and the full responsibility for his actions fall on him and I'm sure he realizes that - he is, after all, a full grown man. I fully expect he can manage his manager. Everything that happened/happens after January 20, 2009 until he leaves office, he owns it - no one else to blame. I'm sure he knows this.

The multinationals could be broken up, at least in this nation. We are not without options for fixing the economy holistically, rather than the piecemeal approach where we try to preserve the monopolization of capital. The strategies exist, but much of the nation would revolt if he did what needs to be done quickly - you'd have something akin to civil war, with gun-toting fascists in the street talking about preserving their freedom - the freedom to be owned by large, paper-obsessed corporations. The corporations also own nearly all the media from which the people get information - it's a very stacked deck.

Before President Obama can do anything major (and he's given no signal that he plans to) he would need to get the public mind to fully understand that these corps are often criminal enterprises, corporations are not human beings, and human beings should come first - IOW, the preponderance of the American public would have to get madder than hell at the monopolies. ATM they don't seem to recognize that they are actually monopolies draining their life's blood.