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The Continuing Disaster of Wall Street, One Year Later

Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "As he attempted to do with health care reform last week, the President is trying to breathe new life into financial reform. He's using the anniversary of the death of Lehman Brothers and the near-death experience of the rest of the Street, culminating with a $600 billion taxpayer financed bailout, to summon the political will for change. Yet the prospects seem dubious. As with health care reform, he has stood on the sidelines for months and allowed vested interests to frame the debate."

https://www.truthout.org/091409K?n

 

Reforming the United States

Francois Brousseau, Le Devoir: "With his timid and oh-so-cautious plan for the reform of health care insurance, Barack Obama, very much in spite of himself, unleashed the move in for a kill by an American extreme right that is in the minority, but is also influential and running riot."

https://www.truthout.org/091409Y?n

 

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