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Don't Take My Vote For Granted

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I get it, it's our fault, we were supposed to make President Obama " go out and do it ".

It's our fault that the economy has not recovered.

It's our fault that drone aircraft are still killing civilians in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia.

It's our fault that the military budget is untouchable, while while social services get axed.

It's our fault that Guantanamo is still holding prisoners without charges or legal rights.

It's our fault that the US is still sending people to foreign "black sites" to be tortured.

It's our fault that Wall Street Banks are still playing fast and loose with our money, secure in the knowledge that the government will bail them out (but not us) when their bets go wrong.

It's our fault that his economic "team" is headed up by those who made the economic crash possible and inevitable.

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Jim Goodman, a WK Kellogg Food and Society Policy Fellow, is an organic dairy farmer and farm activist from Wonewoc Wisconsin. Encouraging local food production and consumption in the industrialized north, allowing the global south sovereignty in (more...)
 
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