Sanders' Economic Plan Best for the 99 Percent

[Ferd Berfel]

Roger Hickey Co-Director, Campaign for America's Future

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-hickey/sanders-economic-plan-bes_b_8906166.html

Here's the bottom line: The middle class is in crisis, and Secretary Clinton's proposals merely tinker at the margins of that crisis. They would not shift the fundamental direction of an economy that is growing more unequal every day.

The Democratic presidential campaign -- unlike the Republican circus -- has actually produced a debate in which each candidate's economic agenda has gotten better and more populist. But as you can see at candidatescorecard.net/, there are also big differences.

Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agree that America's long period of declining wages and growing inequality has been due to chronic slow growth and high unemployment. In Hillary's words "getting closer to full employment is crucial to raising wages." Both are committed to some amount of increased public spending on infrastructure and investments in "green industries." But the difference between the two candidates on public investment is a matter of scale.

Hillary Clinton wants $275 billion more in infrastructure investment in the next five years.

Bernie Sanders would increase by $1 trillion our public investments in jobs-creating infrastructure over the same five year period - creating one million new jobs, while helping to retool the US economy to reduce carbon emissions.

Hillary will simply be Wall street leaning status quo. We need the change the Obama Couldn't bring.

[WillyT]

1. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[senz]

2. That's because he can't be bought and sold.

[floriduck]

3. Unfortunately, that explanation is too

far over the heads of Hill people. It's less mentally taxing for them so they just stay with their preconceived and factually loose beliefs. The dangerous Third Way propaganda machine has been well oiled and feeding the Hillers their kool-aid.

[NCTraveler]

4. I love this post. +1. nt.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. K&R n/t

[Live and Learn]

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[Betty Karlson]

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