"The real question is whether the administration's get-tough policy is just whistling in the dark. In his State of the Union speech, Obama acknowledged that the country is mired in economic problems, and offered some modest proposals for job growth. Yet his strongest words were directed at the Congress for not getting anything done.

Even as he spoke, however, the unemployment rate was creeping upward (one analyst predicts 15-17 per cent unemployment for the next 7 years); the housing and commercial real estate markets were in deep trouble (the New York City commercial market volume dropped an astounding 90 per cent last year); the dollar's power and influence continued to diminish while the Chinese economy grows; and mortgage foreclosures, the collapse of local banks, and personal bankruptcies kept increasing.

One suspects that the underlying reason for the anger in the country might be an unstated one. No one has dared yet to say the Unsayable: despite optimistic reports and a rise in the stock market, we may be moving closer to a major Depression."

to read George Blecher's article published in January 2010, click on
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-01-29-blecher-en.html

to read George Blecher's article "The anticlimax" published in July 2010, click on
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2010-07-14-blecher-en.html#

who is this individual kidding?
any 'reforms' passed will have been written by the cabal of banks who put this meat puppet of theirs into office.
Obama, the proven tool of Wall Street will not let them down.
Do us a favor and blow smoke up some other ass, please.
"insurmountable opposition " from the very same whore congress?
Don't bet on it from previous roll overs for the same cabal of banksters.
This circus of political 'adversaries" is worse than WWF wrestling.
Gen Strike, the 15th of each month.
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