"1. How is Obama going to change the current system? Doesn't congress get to determine tax law?"

No one man is capable of changing a system, it is really all dependent on the circumstances that surround him and how he uses those circumstances to his advantage. For instance, FDR used the Depression to change the American system using the rhetoric of the New Deal. Reagan did the same thing, beginning the destruction of the New Deal welfare state. Obama, may also come into power in a time of crisis, and if he can use his rhetoric skills appropriately, he can change the discourse in American politics. Indeed, Obama is saying some pretty liberal things and people are buying it.

For instance in the debate yesterday, he argued that affirmative action should be based on class not race! Very, very progressive and a step in the right direction imo. Obama is here to save American capitalism from its own excesses, and since capitalists cannot think in the long run, the government has to set the agenda for them and the rules for accumulation. I think in general, there is a emergent discourse about the inequities in American society with the attacks against ridiculous CEO pay.

What needs to change in America is that people have to remember that they belong to classes, and that there is class warfare all around them. What do you think Bush has been? American's have to be much more critical of their lives than they are.

"So in lieu of that, could you tell us how Obama is going to provide healthcare and social security for all citizens without raising the taxes on everyone?"

Why raise it on everyone? Taxes are too low for too many as it is. American's do not realize how little they pay in taxes, come to Canada. Nevertheless, you will never find a majority of Canadians wiling to give up free healthcare, subsidized education, etc. for a bigger cheque. American's have a choice to make, a welfare state, or a market state.

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by Nick86 on 04/17/2008 03:02:49 PM EST