"Make Me Do It" F.D.R. IN THE 1930'S

Can we make Obama Do It?

The economic crisis is the producer of social unrest. (Pssst, listen this goes back to old Karl Marx. Still holding true.) Things get bad enough, people get mad enough and take to the streets. That's how the French Revolution got going. The starving masses demanded bread. The Queen made famous with “Let em eat cake.”

I am surprised by the number of Tea Party people whose response to the Occupy Wall Street is “why don’t go look for a job.” Wow it’s just like the 1930s Depression. Back then, lead by the Hearst newspapers, forerunner of the Mordoch, Fox News Empire were busy with the same cry. “Why don’t those people marching on Washington go look for a job.” The unemployment rate right now is trumpeting “THERE AIN’T NO JOBS, STUPID.

With the A.W.S. Spreading around the world the social unrest is beginning to have an impact. In Europe the Eurozone leaders are working desperately to come up with some kind of solutions that they are hoping will slow down the Social Unrest Movement. Difference between the USA and Europe is the presents of strong Socialist and Communist parties that scare the bejesus out of the ruling capitalists. Unfortunately we have neither of them in the good old USA. That’s to bad. An organized left in the US would be very helpful in scaring concessions out of the ruling class.

I believe the A.W.S. movement, if one can call it that, is having an effect on President Obama. Yes, I know I can hear some of my friends saying, “Schrank, that’s just wishful thinking.” Well, maybe. Yet I see a real effect, for instance in Obama’s move on the Jobs Bill. When the GOP blocked in the Senate the Dems broke it up into pieces forcing the GOP to vote against any measure that in any way looks like a victory for the President. As I write the GOP leaders seem to be agreeing to some elements of the jobs Bill. Effect of social unrest? Maybe.

On Student Loans Obama, without going to the Congress found a way to make administrative changes that will be helpful to those trying to payoff the loans.. Good, Mr. President. Find ways to do more of that. Maybe he has finally learned. That reaching across the aisle just gets his hand slapped? A real test will be the upcoming deal between the GOP and the Dems.on the Super Committee for reducing the deficit. If they don’t agree there will be draconian cuts across the board. The Super Committee was a very dumb idea that never should have been agreed to in the first place. Once the Comm. gets going you know who will be whacked the hardest? Rumor has it that the Dems on the Committee have already made concessions on Medicare and Social Security, God help them if that’s true.

The Administration should be searching for ways to undue this terrible Committee before the Dems. get another shellacking by trying to be nice. “When will they ever learn, When will they ever learn?” Remember the song?

These changes in Obama’s behavior I hope are indicators of the impact of Social Unrest. It’s the A.W.S, movement of protest against the the rich getting richer and the rest of us getting snookered could be wake up call for the Administration. I am also hoping that the protests become more vocal and spreads to additional cities That could make the President, DO IT.” (I love that story.) Yes that’s what Franklin D. Roosevelt said to A. Philip Randolph President of the Sleeping Car Porters Union. Randolph had complained that the New Deal was not helping his members get any benefits from the New Deal. F.D.R’s reply was, “Philip go out and Make Me Do IT.”

That’s what I hope the Occupy Wall Street protests are doing to Obama. Making him do it. Okay, so what is the IT? The IT is making the President put up a fight for the very existence of the middle class. Yes I know, whatever happened to the “working class?” It was dropped probably because the upwardly mobile didn’t like being called “working class.” So, the economists started to call them the middle class and the working class was abolished. Maybe? Of course don’t forget an additional variable, the upcoming 2012 Presidential Election. Wow, the air is already begin to smell bad from all the bull that is flying around.

The A.W.S is the best breath of fresh air we have had in a long time. Sure wish I could camp out with them. This is the best I can do now.