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-- continuing the worst of the Bush administration's torture policies and practice of lawlessness;
-- targeting whistleblowers, dissenters, Muslims, and environmental and animal rights activists called terrorists;
-- illegally spying on Americans as aggressively as under George Bush;
-- destroying decades of hard won labor rights;
-- eroding Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other New Deal and Great Society social gains;
-- trying to control the media more aggressively than Richard Nixon, according to veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas;
-- refusing help for budget-stricken states like California; forcing them to impose austerity by gutting welfare programs, education, health care for the poor, and other vital services at a time they're most needed; to be followed by bailout-rich banks, real estate developers, and other profiteers using "shock doctrine" tactics to buy state and other troubled assets on the cheap;
-- continuing to commodify education, end government responsibility for it, and make it another business profit center;
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