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In reply to the discussion: I Love Social Security [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)get a real Democratic Congress in place that take the simple steps required to stop funding with handouts, those who are sending American jobs overseas. Stop all subsidies to big Corporations, end tax breaks, no raise taxes on those who care so little about this country that they are prepared to 'screw' it by doing business overseas while taking everything they can from this country. They can go overseas, but not with OUR money.
End our dependence on oil and start a huge jobs program utilizing American ingenuity and labor to start the inevitable transfer to alternative energy. Put people to work on the next 'industrial era' right here in the US. Anyone who doesn't want to participate, do not expect anymore handouts from the people here.
First thing to get this started is to stop supporting weaklings, sellouts, infiltrators, corporate shills for public office. Part of the fact we appear to be screwed is OUR fault. We've allowed ourselves to be scared into going in the wrong direction.
But we are now far better informed than we were even ten years ago. And depressing as it may be to feel so betrayed, it is also a good thing, a new beginning.
We need with people with the determination that people like Perkins had. If she could do what she did, we can follow her example and never assume that anything is impossible.
I hope you join us, because there is no other alternative now.