Russ, I think you need to do a recheck of your facts. The democrats took over the house and senate in 2007 and 2009.
hmmmmmm maybe it's the demobots holding everything up.

Tom,record number of filibusters by republicans can't be denied.Mitch McConnell said that his number 1 priority was to defeat Obama.Not the economy ,not end war in the middle East,not healthcare but party power over the good of the nation.True compromise is not allowed by the tea party right.They have consistently campaigned against any of their own that would reach out to compromise with the other side causing obstruction instead of cooperation to solve our countries problems like unemployment.E.G.rebuilding infrastructure was always supported by both parties for jobs and the good of the country but, has been stonewalled by the republicans because employment would drop and make Obama look good.

@ Russ gas was $1.84 a gallon when Bush left office,tells me oBAMA IS IN WITH THE OIL MONGULS, Russ who f uped the housing market 2 smucks Sen, Frank and Dowd telling the banks better give out those loans or else, and how about obama who sat in a church for 20yrs listening to his mentor black rev, spewing hatred against America and White America,shows you what you know and others,NILCH

@ harry,The price of gas has fluctuated for both president Bush and Obama,It was up to 4.11 a gallon in july of 08,so by your description Bush was in with the "oil monguls" too.I am not sure what your referring to but, Frank and Dodd were responsible for hr4173,wall street reform and consumer protection act.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr4173
Your last comment about rev.Wright is typical right wing fox news B.S. that your kind loves to buy in to.

Hey Russ,Do you know who was behind the force loans from the banks to minorities it was Bill "I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN" Clinton,hey Russ back in the 60's I needed $5000 down to by a $20,000 house , Sen. Franks and Dowd were head of the Banking and Finance committee with the Democrats in majority of both House and Senate,Did Bush make mistakes Yes,but not as many as was reported by the bias mainstream media that put him down everyday,you want to debate me go ahead,but if your a White man and voted for obama 2 things you are either a hypocritical stupid White person or you got your head in your ask me no questions and tell me no lies.now its time to feed your obama doll.

Hey Russ do you know there's millions being poured in from the obama ADM. to the south and west ghetto sides,wait until Quinn and the other Democrats switch those pension funds to the school districts and see your real estate taxes skyrocket,Hey Russ I was a POW for 5 months,I learned one thing don't trust anyone because we are a nation of liars and bs'ers and to me your one brainwashed fool.

Harry,
I am sorry to hear you were in a pow camp for 5 months ,but I am glad you're here to tell us about it.I would hope that having that type of experience you would cherish every citizens right to vote for the candidate of their choice. I don't understand how that gives you the right to call a white person hypocritical for voting for a black man.Sounds like your pretty racist to me.If that is true it doesn't matter how good Obama is for our country, you don't like him because he is black.
Have a nice day harry. I truly wish you well.

I agree with Harry. I don't trust...I verify....if I cannot verify, I do not trust.

Hey Russ were do you reside at,I bet you don't live in a black area do you Why if your not a racist,but I am,Russ one thing I'm not is a HYPOCRIT,I bet you never lived in a black hood have you Russ,I bet you ran like the other hypocrits that voted for obama and company,come on Russ have some bells and admit it.

Well harry,
making comments like this:
",you want to debate me go ahead,but if your a White man and voted for obama 2 things you are either a hypocritical stupid White person or you got your head in your ask me no questions and tell me no lies.now its time to feed your obama doll."
Seems harry, to put you in the racist /prejudice camp.harry, You seem harry, to want a badge of courage for living in a tough neighborhood.harry that is your choice, harry.harry, it is also your choice to draw false conclusions about all people on the basis of your experience, harry in that tough neighborhood harry.
Have a nice day,,,

Hey Russ,Do me a favor,this evening put your obama doll a side I know you will be losing that tingling in your leg, go outside and go bark at the moon maybe that will help you come to back to your senses okay Russ.

harry,sounds like you have a strange obsession with dolls and now your dreaming about a tingling in your leg.Might be a stroke harry , you better get that checked out.

Russ one more thing when done barking at the moon and regaining your senses,which probably won't help,how about biting my shorts,your just to much in love with Obamakov for me to waste my time,you can't even take in what I comment,but remember one thing Russ I fought along with others for your freedom to run your mouth,maybe someone like Jane Fonda would understand you better.

Harry,
If you served I thank you and all our servicemen and women for their service and sacrifice.However, you sound like a very disturbed man.Your comments don't make a lot of sense but like you say, you fought for the freedom to say them.Your insults don't bother me, from a person like you, they are expected. Have a nice day Harry.

Russ, knock it off already with your comments,you calling me disturbed,your the one that has the venom in you .typical Lefty" We can say anything ,but others can't.

Harry,
I am sorry if i offended you, but if you look back at your comments you were pretty abusive yourself.

Christine....HOW MUCH IS THE GLOBAL CORPORATE GOVERNMENT PAYING YOU...? IF YOU ARE AMERICAN....YOU ARE A TRAITOR.....IF YOU ARE A FOREIGNER....GET LOST.

Christine.....all of the useless idiots in the world will never be able to fool those of US who know the TRUTH......THE 1% ARE CRIMINALS..!

Mom, I think a lot of people agree with you. The only ones that want to vote for Obama are on the government dole and they don't want to lose what they're receiving. The rest of us are tired of working and pinching pennies to try to get ahead. The list of taxes is a mile long. Government serves the people, not the other way around. They will get their boot off our necks.

Business

‘Unworthy to Lead’: This Chart Shows the Staggering Amount of New Debt That has Been Added Since the Senate Passed Its Last Budget

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/unworthy-to-lead-this-chart-shows-the-staggering-amount-of-new-debt-that-has-been-added-since-the-senate-passed-its-last-budget/

We can thank DICK Durbin for that too in addition to showing support to the CAT strikers.

George Bush gave billions of our wealth to the banksters. Obama gave them trillions....The Dems are wolves in sheep's clothing....The Repubs are wolves in wolves clothing. The choice is clear. Deceptive robbery of all our wealth is their plan. The Republicans just do it slower.

I do like my job, or at least I did until Cat started taking away all the things I have worked the last 17 years for! I was happy to have a job, and now I am standing on a picket line. Why? Because what Cat is trying to do to us us WRONG! I don't care what your political affiliations are, how many of you would work for 6 years without a raise, especially knowing your health care costs are increasing by more than 2 1/2 times over the next 6 years? Newer people only "market-based" raises, may not get anything no matter how hard they work. Then they want to be able to loan us out to any shift,any job, for as long as they want for any reason, even if it's to give the day shift job I've worked for 17 years for to the boss's new hire nephew! Is that fair? Cat has had record profits for the last 2 1/2 years, CEO got 42% increase last year, & I get NOTHING? In effect a pay cut, now they are freezing my pension, have to contribute more to my 401k to be able to retire someday. Bonuses eliminated, pay frozen, costs going up. Pay CUT!

mom and christine you both must be from the same pathetic family.Your desire to shut up the common worker comes right out of the corporate rule book,it has never worked and it never will.Go ahead, slam the hard working factory worker .It makes you feel good with your right wing fox attacks on unions.Everybody can't have their own business not in this day and age.We all choose different careers .Its pretty hard to start a business when you are vested in a company, paying bills for your family and trying to survive.
Unions didn't ruin this country. They gave us the 40 hour work week ,overtime pay, vacations, benefits and a safe workplace.Today they give people a voice against corporate greed and everything mentioned above.Unions are a democratic organization with elected officials that are directly accountable to their membership.Nowadays they give back as much as they get from companies so that they all can keep their jobs.

If you believe either party is going to stop the ongoing robbery....you are sadly mistaken. The only entity who can are ....... WE THE PEOPLE.

Others are sponsoring a food drive for the workers on strike at Caterpillar. Many have children, they need school supplies, food, diapers, etc. Strikers are receiving only a small check weekly from the union for strike pay, not nearly enough to pay bills, buy food, gas etc. Many have found other jobs, some will not go back to Cat when this is over. Strikers are not eligible for unemployment or government assistance.

Then maybe they should get to work, no? If you have to eat and everything. Just saying.

Not working by choice.

At least those union dues are good for something.

shhh CPS will call in Occupy

Don't work for a corporation; start your own business as many people I know have. Use your money, your sweat, your risk and take the same chance someone else did to start the corporations you so despise. Try working 90 hours a week getting your business off the ground, then servicing your customers, all while supporting a family. MANY others have done it. If you don't like capitalism, go to China and see how you like it there.

And the German Caterpillar workers got raises in their last contract. And our skills are what gives Cat the reputation for top quality that has made them #1 in the world. As they hire less skilled labor, scrap goes up, quality goes down. If they want to compete with everybody else, fine. If they want to stay ahead of the pack, continue to be the best, then they need to keep & hire the best people! And guess what, you get what you pay for!!!

The hierarchy hates US... They use and abuse. They have all aquired vast wealth by this sneaky method of spreading our knowledge and our wealth around the world. We The People should stop participating in our own robbery........BUY and shop AMERICAN. Don't do business with the foreign controlled megopoly.

Juvenile....That is the Corporate Government meme.....However, it is only over if WE allow it. They can only succeed as long as WE THE PEOPLE are willing to accept OUR OWN robbery that is ongoing and their MUNDANE FIXES FOR MASSIVE CRIMINALITY BY THEM.....THE CORPORATE GOVERNMENT.

Your brother has worked 6 years without a raise? He hasn't been hit that hard yet.... there are millions of small business owners whose credit lines were pulled by the banks for no reason and they were put out of business. This was done so the banksters who robbed us could rekapitalize with OUR CAPITAL. My brother lost his livelihood as a union bricklayer. He now works at Jewel for minimum wage. He was evicted from his townhouse with out a day in court. My brother in law lost his
livelihood of over 20 years at a scaffolding co. He now works at Sears for spit. He
and his family are fighting eviction by Chase. They went through all of their 401k
retirement money while looking for a

way to make a LIVING. WELCOME TO THE DICTATORSHIP...

I didn't say he has worked for 6 years without a raise. I did say he's worked for several years with a 10% pay cut and mandatory days off without pay. Read it again. Explain to me how you can fight eviction in court. Either you paid your mortgage or rent (which you previously agreed to pay without a gun to your head) or you didn't. It's sad when so many people blame banks for enforcing the contract people freely signed.

Do you not pay any bills? Every utility, service and commodity has risen in price. The only thing that has gone down is my property value. Soon they will raise the multiplier again to make up for lost taxes. If you own stock, in January your capital gains and dividends taxes will go up quite a bit. I have a funny habit of wanting to keep most of the money we make. You know, to feed, clothe and educate my kids and save for our retirement. I don't give a rat's butt how much money someone makes,but you should live within your means, and that applies especially to government.

Yes i pay bills.... funny how now the obama administration controls your bills... and yes the deregulation was a direct cause of your property value going down. It gave the power to these bastards to rob us. It was the republican party as well that stood hand in hand with democrats bailing these guys out.
im not against your concrens and worries... certainly valid... its where people are putting their blame and anger is the issue...

Bob, I'm no fan of the GOP either. I am a Conservative and the closest I can get to a real one is in the Republican party. I put blame and anger where it belongs: with the people responsible: Liberals and the RINOs, if you look at a chart of presidential progress since Eisenhower, you'll see that job growth for Obama is .01%. Unemployment is over 8% for the last 40 months. Everything costs more. My problem now is that the current occupant of the White House is so terribly socialist that now we're begging for any Republican. Ron Paul doesn't have a chance, but his Constitutional ideas resonate with people. We need to stop spending so much money (which we don't have) and let businesses recover. They won't hire or spend because they don't know what Obama will do next. There's no confidence.

Chronicles of Bob......The repeal of Glass-Steagall wasn't the only protection they removed to rob US....But it allowed Wall Street to use the illusion of SECURITIZATION....to oversell interests in ANYTHING WITH A REVENUE FLOW......EVEN THINGS WITHOUT A MONEY FLOW...CNBC reported a while back that the year Glass Steagall was repealed.....WALL STREET MADE 60 TRILLION DOLLARS SELLING DERIVATIVES....The Commodities and Exchange Act was severely weakened......BY CONgress ....The Patriot Act allowed the banks to transfer our wealth overseas with ease. The UPTICK RULE was removed by the SEC....IN 2007...That allowed the Stock Market crash to occur by INSIDER TRADING......CNBC REPORTED THE STOCK MARKET CRASH HAPPENED BECAUSE OF INSIDER TRADING....SEE THE YOU TUBE VIDEO ENTITLED ....CNBC SAYS THE ILLUMINATI CRASHED THE STOCK MARKET........WE WERE SET UP.....SLOWLY AND STRATEGICALLY..DON'T FORGET CLINTON ALSO SIGNED THE NAFTA AGREEMENT. None of this fraud could have been possible without the traitors from within. See the Academy Award winning documentary INSIDE JOB by CHARLES FERGUSON.

I would take the Eisenhower Republican party in a heartbeat over the republican party we are left with today.

The bankster debt is estimated at $1.2 quadrillion.....the world GDP is around $60 trillion. I will post the link.

Here is the link to that article entitled....Big Risk: $1.2 Quadrillion Derivatives Market Dwarfs World GDP:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/06/09/risk-quadrillion-derivatives-market-gdp/

yes, the beginning of the catastrophe we experienced starting in the Bush years, that the repeal of Glass Steagel act guaranteed.

100% right russ... But it made small % very rich, and continues to do so... yet we would rather sling rocks at those trying to keep their benefits of a job... We would rather praise Gov Walker who takes rights away from workers and unions.. Those very same Unions that help make private businesses like Christines or Moms successful... They just don't see the foundation that these people laid for them... Easy to use the word GOD then spit on people

It's called buying the labor vote.

He just lost my vote

Not true... by your own analogy, the new crew will do the same...

Need to change the rules... They are set up to favor a very few. That isnt by accident. A simple example is the NCAA, where I have plenty of exp... The rules are set up by the big boys to favor the big boys...

I have spent the last 17 years at Cat doing exactly what you suggest Christine, improving my skills, taking classes, getting experience, working hard at making myself a better employee and a better asset to Cat. I have gotten ahead on my own merit. Yes we have a union. But if you can't do the job you are assigned to you are either demoted to something you can handle or fired. My union is there to protect me against favoritism and personal vendettas, and to make sure Cat fulfills the terms of their contract. Under this proposal from Cat my union will no longer have the authority to protect me from the above items. This is NOT just about money. Cat wants to break this union, they want to be able to pay whatever, do whatever, and yet still expect to be #1 in the industry. I want what is best for Cat as well as for its employees. If Cat is going to stay the best they need the best people. You don't get the best people by paying minimum wage & not offering benefits. You get the best people by being the top employer with the best pay & benefits. If they get their way Joliet will become a training facility, where people will come to learn the jobs & then take their skills elsewhere. This is bad for us, for Joliet, & for Caterpillar!

You know what Christine. You are who needs to educate yourself and stop believing everything the Corporate Gov tells you. They are traitors. They are not your friend.

You are so sure your livelihood is secure .....so were millions of other Americans. Watch RT NEWS.

Everyone is one job loss or business loss away from the Plutocrats manufactured hell. Thank the traitor politicians.

Ivent, if our livlihood disappears we'd have to find a new one. We're also incredibly frugal so we can live on quite little. But, it's probably genetic. My Grandma never graduated high school, had a baby at 16 and worked in a factory doing piece work her entire adult life until she retired at 65. She bought and paid in full TWO houses in seven years each. They worked their butts off and it paid off. They didn't sit around complaining. They WORKED.

Christine.....and forget about the biggest robbery of our wealth and property in history....? Not a freaking chance.