BTW – Thanks for all the primaries
No matter what happens, the asleep at the wheel, bought and sold Democratic Party has been put on notice.
– Single Payer
– $15.00 Minmum Wage
– Reverse Citizens United/Dark Money Out of Politics
– Free Tuition at State Colleges
– Green New Deal
– Gun Reform
It’s only a matter of time now.
Audere est facere.
The irony being, of course, that some of the listed items are in the State D Party Platform, but have been routinely ignored by our so-called ‘leaders’, including Tom ‘Not A Penny Over $9 An Hour’ Carper. Time for me to rustle up that link…here it is:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/02/26/1280539/-Senate-minimum-wage-vote-delayed-thanks-to-Republican-obstruction-and-weak-Democrats
– Single Payer
Can’t and won’t happen because there are too many people that don’t pay taxes, don’t contribute to the system and don’t care about being educated, for the WORKING Americans who DO pay taxes, DO contribute and DO try and get educated to cover the expenses for.
https://www.ntu.org/foundation/tax-page/who-pays-income-taxes-2013
What department will you liberals give up to fully fund a Health and Human services department with a Budget of that magnitude? Are you willing to give up giving benefits to illegal aliens? Are you willing to give up defense? You think Russia’s bad now, wait til Putin doesn’t have to compete with our defense dept. LOL.
Are willing to give up paying prevailing wage extortion wages to all the unions? School & State buildings along with all highways built for half price would be an economic windfall to state and federal economies but that would be too logical for those people who think single payer works.
– $15.00 Minimum Wage
Have you been paying attention to what is happening in NY, the Left coast areas and elsewhere that the 15.00 min. wage has passed???? It hammers consumers and destroys business cash flow which means fewer jobs. Sound like good economics to you?? Really?
– Free Tuition at State Colleges
Again, there is NO “FREE”. Someone is paying and it is those who already are paying their fair share of taxes. see link above. So take your utopian socialist bong hit pipe dreams and enjoy the fantasy but it doesn’t mean the rest of society or America has to sit by while you inhale hallucinogenic smoke. Regulate college tuition is a reasonable venture. “FREE” is just really good hash speaking.
– Green New Deal
Take all the inconsistent green sources you want to consider and none of them provide consistent, financially viable, reliable power. All the green initiatives may help the environment but they all come at an increased cost which creates an economic dampener on growth. (i.e.: fewer jobs, less tax revenue, greater costs, lower disposable income, ad infinitum ) Did I mention higher costs. Use your high school classroom training people. If you add costs, you decrease demand. Decrease demand is economic decline. Is this what you want in your land of unlimited resources? Why yes it is, and then your unlimited resources are no longer unlimited. Progressive Liberal thought at its best.
– Gun Reform
Let’s take away rights from citizens clearly called out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights because …..well, you want to protect Americans. Are these the same Americans you want to Abort and sell their body parts? Are these the same Americans that you want to fund support to NON-Americans? Were these rights debated heavily and based on experiences of what happens when the people become subservient to their gov’t? Why yes, yes they were. So what reform will make your progressive liberal sensibilities feel better? No guns?? Well how are you all feeling about if I take your so called “rights” away to kill babies??? Feeling good about that? If so then, maybe we need to stick with enforcing the Bill of Rights as written first, then we’ll discuss rights that are merely interpreted by liberal judges who like to kill innocent babies rather than use forms of birth control that don’t kill innocents.
“Are you willing to give up defense? You think Russia’s bad now, wait til Putin doesn’t have to compete with our defense dept. LOL.”
You clearly know nothing about the defense budget. Russia is a collapsing state whose GDP is lower than that of Texas, California or New York. It is, as Russians themselves say, Bangladesh with missiles. And nuclear missiles aren’t part of our immense defense budget — they come under the Energy Dept., which is why you don’t want a dope like Perry running it.
“Are you willing to give up giving benefits to illegal aliens?”
Again, you know nothing about what we spend on this. It’s peanuts.
“take away rights from citizens clearly called out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights”
First off, there’s nothing in the rest of the Constitution about it, just the Bill of Rights, and this “right” was made up by the Scalia court. We will take it away again, and strip you of your cherished security blankets. We will impeach your judges and, in some cases, hang them for treason. It will be a joy to behold.
“All the green initiatives may help the environment but they all come at an increased cost which creates an economic dampener on growth. (i.e.: fewer jobs, less tax revenue, greater costs, lower disposable income, ad infinitum ) ”
Again, you are wrong on every particular. There is far more job growth in renewable energy than in fossil fuels. But thank you for making clear that your motivations are all based on greed.
None of these positions you take are based on facts. They are based on your simple-minded biases.
It will be a joy to me when you and your ilk are purged. I’ll trade the taxes you pay for an immigrant’s any day of the week.
That guy is very funny. He’s the manifestation of “by your logic”.
We could afford $1.5 trillion in tax breaks for ultra rich oligarchs. The military budget is like $700 billion.