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In reply to the discussion: the consistent effort by conservative, corporate dems to try and tarnish progressive [View all]ProSense
(116,464 posts)"Exceptions to the rule and related only to labor issues. Labor and ordinary consumers -- not wealthy consumers -- do not sit on commissions that discuss business issues, but big business sits on commissions that decide issues that will affect them as consumers. For every meeting, Obama has with bankers, he should have a one on one with someone whose home has been foreclosed."
Now you're trying to marginalize "labor"?
Labor is about workers, and you simply ignore the reality of what the health care law means to "ordinary consumers" (whatever that means, as opposed to "labor," I guess).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024464691#post15
"That's my view. Our Democratic leadership is not really listening to what ordinary people are thinking and saying about issues, hence Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party and the support for Elizabeth Warren's views on banking and oversight of our economy. "
Selectively listen to Senator Warren is key to using her as a divisive figure.
http://www.warren.senate.gov/files/documents/AFR%20Roosevelt%20Institute%20Speech%202013-11-12.pdf