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Barack’s Capitalist Dream Team: Workers’ Nightmare Written by challenge Monday, 17 November 2008 02:48 The emerging “Team Obama” boasts many of U.S. capitalism’s most vicious racist job-, wage- and benefit-cutters and imperialist warmakers. Economic hit-men like former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Clinton’s Treasury-Secy. Robert Rubin and his assistant Larry Summers, and Clinton’s NY Fed chairman Timothy Geithner comprise Obama’s money trust. Their policies directly raised unemployment to levels unseen since the 1930s, dismantled Welfare and helped engineer Wall Street’s “restructuring,” which this year alone has cost 1.2 million workers’ jobs. Government figures show 21.2 million workers out of work or unable to find full-time jobs. (NY Times, 10/8) Meanwhile, executives of failed firms haggle over the size of their multi-million-dollar “golden parachutes.” John Podesta heads Obama’s transition team. The lobbying firm he founded fronts for BP, Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Northrop, Raytheon, and other cogs in the Pentagon war machine. Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s new chief of staff, served in the neo-Nazi Israeli Defense Force during the genocide of the first Gulf War. The Rockefeller wing of the ruling class, expecting potential opposition to capitalism’s putting the screws on the working class, has been planning Obama’s rise for some time. As CHALLENGE has reported, Rockefeller money sent Obama to Harvard and then to a professorship at the U. of Chicago and then to the “electric” speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention which gave him the national spotlight. It was then that he started pushing the rulers’ “all-class unity” (“We’re not blue states or red states; we’re the United States”), now his watchword. In Obama the rulers have the perfect guy to champion this. According to the NY Times (10/5), Obama’s forces began organizing this campaign the day after he was elected to the Senate from Illinois two years ago. They figured out how to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, outspending McCain four to one. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
