In reality, the bailout will not resolve what is a systemic crisis of the capitalist system or prevent it from enveloping millions of working people in the US and around the world. The most powerful sections of the US financial elite are utilizing the crisis as an opportunity to offload their bad debts onto the government and impose the burden of the financial meltdown, for which they are responsible, on the working class. There is already much commentary in the media and among economists to the effect that this bailout is little more than a stop-gap, and even greater transfers of wealth to Wall Street will be required.
Obama admitted, “Even if we get this in place, we could still have enormous problems and probably will have enormous problems over the next few months and potentially longer.”
He then declared, as he has in several speeches and in his debate last week with McCain, that the cost of the bailout would make it necessary to cut back on future plans to spend money on federal social programs. The programs he has promised in the course of the election campaign “may have to be delayed or stretched out,” he said. He added that an Obama administration would carry out a program of budget-cutting and fiscal austerity.
That's why I detest him as a candidate. He's nothing but a ringer.
The bailout is a bunch of crap and doesn't address the root causes of the mess, which have to do with the growing disparity between the rich and everybody else.
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