The real reason there are so many threads about alleged "Progressive vote suppression"

[Savannahmann]

63. What have they proposed?

What plan has been proposed to improve the economy? From Democrats own website.

The last update was on May 9th. MAY 9TH of this year.



That's the entire post for the entire month of May.

April, we celebrated equal pay day, and had another great slide for minimum wage.

That's it.

Well, let's look at the House Democrats, because perhaps they've done more than phone it in.

Er. Yeah.

House Democrats’ plan to Make It In America includes:

Adopting & pursuing a national manufacturing strategy: Right now, American manufacturers are facing international competitors that benefit from other nations’ carefully crafted manufacturing strategies. Such comprehensive strategies include tax incentives, investments in research, skills development initiatives, and support for infrastructure projects in order to help their manufacturers get ahead.

So the House Democrats plan is to crank up the lower taxes on major manufacturing, read that to mean big business, so they might hire more people. I've heard that plan before, can anyone tell me what Republican offered that plan because his name (Romney) escapes me.

We got our asses kicked on Minimum wage because the CBO came back and put a spotlight on the Republican argument of the "job killing minimum wage" when the CBO said yes, 500,000 jobs would be lost. We just folded right then. That's the only economic proposal we've made all year. ALL BLOODY YEAR.

So help me out. What economic plans have Democrats put out that I haven't heard about. Because I'd love to read them. Providing that they are written somewhere other than the Republican Caucus meeting.

You need to remember this one salient fact. I'm not getting this from Rethug sites. This is literally the Democratic plans, or lack there of.

If you want to highlight Republican obstruction, you don't schedule a few token votes. If you want people to elect you, here's the key, you have to promise to keep working, even if you stand zero chance of getting it through the House. Because if you're not working, then all you can promise is more gridlock with nothing getting done. But if you're submitting proposals, drafting laws, and discussing those proposals when you go on the Sunday Talking Head shows, you're going to make them respond when they are asked what their plan is. Then they can either say we don't have one, or they can try and pull some crap out of their asses, while you have a binder full of proposals that you are happy to discuss.

But by doing nothing except complaining about the Republicans, you accomplish nothing. Not only do you get nothing done, which would have happened anyway, but you also lose the moral victory of making the Republicans oppose it. But it has to be a serious plan, and it has to be able to work. Which obviously goes without saying that tax cuts for big business obviously won't work, unless your economic stimulus plan is to help the bosses buy more expensive cars and houses.