I read Dean Baker's People Power Matters  and I don't agree that People Power got us what we want. I agree it got us a facade of a public option, and I fell for it, I admit it. We've been directed to focus on the public option and all we got was this lousy t-shirt/facade. Almost no one gets to choose the public option (in all the bills, it's only for the uninsured), and while we were busy demanding something we didn't define for ourselves, banks have been challenged with nothing but rules not break-ups, the energy companies de-fanged cap-and-trade with congress giving away 85% of the credits to polluters, and the stock options dealers are planning the next bubble from selling carbon credits, for pity's sake. The People have no power if we're uninformed and only follow-the-DNC-lead. That's glaringly obvious looking at these five health care bills with no real choice.

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