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Why Labor's Rank and File Won't Campaign for Obama

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3) The Wall Street reform bill

If the AFL-CIO President really wanted to assess Obama's first four

years in relation to working people, he should have included the

following points:

1) He bailed out the bankers, and his administration has refused to

prosecute any of them for the crimes they committed.

2) The shameful lack of action to create the 25 million full-time jobs

the AFL-CIO demanded, until recently, to address the jobs

depression.

3) The truth of Obama's health care plan; it slashes hundreds of

millions of dollars from Medicare; forces working people to buy

shoddy corporate health care, and taxes the health care of union

workers (so called "Cadillac" health care plans). 

4) The Wall Street "reform" bill was weak enough to allow Wall Street

to continue acting as it had been before the crisis, thus re-creating

the conditions that will inevitably lead to another crisis.

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Shamus Cooke is a social service worker, trade unionist, and writer for Workers Action (www.workerscompass.org)
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