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In reply to the discussion: Hillary vs Bernie re: supporter point of view [View all]Autumn
(45,042 posts)74. This is why WE support Bernie Sanders.
I see why it would upset poor mistreated republicans and why they would think that supporting that big bad Bernie Sanders would make us welfare queens.
Special thanks to Jackpine Radical for this Op
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12808348
1. Rebuilding Our Crumbling Infrastructure
We need a major investment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure: roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools. It has been estimated that the cost of the Bush-Cheney Iraq War, a war we should never have waged, will total $3 trillion by the time the last veteran receives needed care. A $1 trillion investment in infrastructure could create 13 million decent paying jobs and make this country more efficient and productive. We need to invest in infrastructure, not more war.
2. Reversing Climate Change
The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change and make certain that this planet is habitable for our children and grandchildren. We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energies. Millions of homes and buildings need to be weatherized, our transportation system needs to be energy efficient and we need to greatly accelerate the progress we are already seeing in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other forms of sustainable energy. Transforming our energy system will not only protect the environment, it will create good paying jobs.
3. Creating Worker Co-ops
We need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives. Study after study shows that when workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for, productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more satisfied with their jobs.
4. Growing the Trade Union Movement
Union workers who are able to collectively bargain for higher wages and benefits earn substantially more than non-union workers. Today, corporate opposition to union organizing makes it extremely difficult for workers to join a union. We need legislation which makes it clear that when a majority of workers sign cards in support of a union, they can form a union.
5. Raising the Minimum Wage
The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. No one in this country who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.
6. Pay Equity for Women Workers
Women workers today earn 78 percent of what their male counterparts make. We need pay equity in our country equal pay for equal work.
7. Trade Policies that Benefit American Workers
Since 2001 we have lost more than 60,000 factories in this country, and more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. We must end our disastrous trade policies (NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR with China, etc.) which enable corporate America to shut down plants in this country and move to China and other low-wage countries. We need to end the race to the bottom and develop trade policies which demand that American corporations create jobs here, and not abroad.
8. Making College Affordable for All
In today's highly competitive global economy, millions of Americans are unable to afford the higher education they need in order to get good-paying jobs. Further, with both parents now often at work, most working-class families can't locate the high-quality and affordable child care they need for their kids. Quality education in America, from child care to higher education, must be affordable for all. Without a high-quality and affordable educational system, we will be unable to compete globally and our standard of living will continue to decline.
9. Taking on Wall Street
The function of banking is to facilitate the flow of capital into productive and job-creating activities. Financial institutions cannot be an island unto themselves, standing as huge profit centers outside of the real economy. Today, six huge Wall Street financial institutions have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product - over $9.8 trillion. These institutions underwrite more than half the mortgages in this country and more than two-thirds of the credit cards. The greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of major Wall Street firms plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. They are too powerful to be reformed. They must be broken up.
10. Health Care as a Right for All
The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world and recognize that health care is a right of all, and not a privilege. Despite the fact that more than 40 million Americans have no health insurance, we spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. We need to establish a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
11. Protecting the Most Vulnerable Americans
Millions of seniors live in poverty and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country. We must strengthen the social safety net, not weaken it. Instead of cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs, we should be expanding these programs.
12. Real Tax Reform
At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay. It is not acceptable that major profitable corporations have paid nothing in federal income taxes, and that corporate CEOs in this country often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than their secretaries. It is absurd that we lose over $100 billion a year in revenue because corporations and the wealthy stash their cash in offshore tax havens around the world. The time is long overdue for real tax reform.
We need a major investment to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure: roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools. It has been estimated that the cost of the Bush-Cheney Iraq War, a war we should never have waged, will total $3 trillion by the time the last veteran receives needed care. A $1 trillion investment in infrastructure could create 13 million decent paying jobs and make this country more efficient and productive. We need to invest in infrastructure, not more war.
2. Reversing Climate Change
The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change and make certain that this planet is habitable for our children and grandchildren. We must transform our energy system away from fossil fuels and into energy efficiency and sustainable energies. Millions of homes and buildings need to be weatherized, our transportation system needs to be energy efficient and we need to greatly accelerate the progress we are already seeing in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and other forms of sustainable energy. Transforming our energy system will not only protect the environment, it will create good paying jobs.
3. Creating Worker Co-ops
We need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives. Study after study shows that when workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for, productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more satisfied with their jobs.
4. Growing the Trade Union Movement
Union workers who are able to collectively bargain for higher wages and benefits earn substantially more than non-union workers. Today, corporate opposition to union organizing makes it extremely difficult for workers to join a union. We need legislation which makes it clear that when a majority of workers sign cards in support of a union, they can form a union.
5. Raising the Minimum Wage
The current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. We need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. No one in this country who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.
6. Pay Equity for Women Workers
Women workers today earn 78 percent of what their male counterparts make. We need pay equity in our country equal pay for equal work.
7. Trade Policies that Benefit American Workers
Since 2001 we have lost more than 60,000 factories in this country, and more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. We must end our disastrous trade policies (NAFTA, CAFTA, PNTR with China, etc.) which enable corporate America to shut down plants in this country and move to China and other low-wage countries. We need to end the race to the bottom and develop trade policies which demand that American corporations create jobs here, and not abroad.
8. Making College Affordable for All
In today's highly competitive global economy, millions of Americans are unable to afford the higher education they need in order to get good-paying jobs. Further, with both parents now often at work, most working-class families can't locate the high-quality and affordable child care they need for their kids. Quality education in America, from child care to higher education, must be affordable for all. Without a high-quality and affordable educational system, we will be unable to compete globally and our standard of living will continue to decline.
9. Taking on Wall Street
The function of banking is to facilitate the flow of capital into productive and job-creating activities. Financial institutions cannot be an island unto themselves, standing as huge profit centers outside of the real economy. Today, six huge Wall Street financial institutions have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product - over $9.8 trillion. These institutions underwrite more than half the mortgages in this country and more than two-thirds of the credit cards. The greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of major Wall Street firms plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. They are too powerful to be reformed. They must be broken up.
10. Health Care as a Right for All
The United States must join the rest of the industrialized world and recognize that health care is a right of all, and not a privilege. Despite the fact that more than 40 million Americans have no health insurance, we spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. We need to establish a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
11. Protecting the Most Vulnerable Americans
Millions of seniors live in poverty and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country. We must strengthen the social safety net, not weaken it. Instead of cutting Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs, we should be expanding these programs.
12. Real Tax Reform
At a time of massive wealth and income inequality, we need a progressive tax system in this country which is based on ability to pay. It is not acceptable that major profitable corporations have paid nothing in federal income taxes, and that corporate CEOs in this country often enjoy an effective tax rate which is lower than their secretaries. It is absurd that we lose over $100 billion a year in revenue because corporations and the wealthy stash their cash in offshore tax havens around the world. The time is long overdue for real tax reform.
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Absolutely agree. Back before raygun many of us got free educations and what happened there is
jwirr
May 2015
#197
Defeatism: an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat
AgingAmerican
May 2015
#52
And you both may be right about that - but I have a hard time understanding the glee that so
jwirr
May 2015
#71
What I hear you saying is Bernie is somehow wrong about this need. But I also hear your
jwirr
May 2015
#91
Wall Street Journal doesn't like Hillary at all. No way no how. You should try reading it. nt
Hekate
May 2015
#137
House will be up for election multiple times while he is President. n/t
PowerToThePeople
May 2015
#43
I do not see why you are all so upset about a free education. Education has and always will be an
jwirr
May 2015
#67
I agree but that is hardly the fault of either Bernie or Hillary. That is our fault that we have
jwirr
May 2015
#85
They do not have enough money for food for their children. There have always been people who did
jwirr
May 2015
#96
If the rich won't pay taxes, we can simply expropriate their wealth. - nt
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#92
I understand where you're coming from, but do note I said "expropriate their
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#103
Also this is how you tell what a person has done and is doing, the longest
orpupilofnature57
May 2015
#57
I know you haven't the slightest clue as to the difference between opinion and fact
cali
May 2015
#165
Bingo! Why would anyone believe HRC is now a populist? DLC/Corporatist/3rdwayer is her history
peacebird
May 2015
#177
Hillary: Nevermind that I will owe favors to every billionaire who has funded my campaign
onecaliberal
May 2015
#183
Roger That - Many Real Democrats See HRC For What She Is - A Patron Of The Oligarchs
cantbeserious
May 2015
#8
Noble Sentiment - This One Witnesses The Clinton's Activities Of Patronage For The Oligarchs
cantbeserious
May 2015
#48
Agree. I would add that a better society would better fuel a healthy economy. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
May 2015
#29
I want the people who do the work to reap the benefits of their work, not the global 1%, who
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#100
Your post makes me a little sad as it evokes my own father somewhat. You seem to have
KingCharlemagne
May 2015
#122
I don't believe most other Hillary supporters would agree with the OP either.
m-lekktor
May 2015
#45
“The True Measure of Any Society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members” – Gandhi
Jackpine Radical
May 2015
#22
Then you need to change your avatar. Unless your support that free market thing you're talkin bout.
NYC_SKP
May 2015
#28
You have the heads exploding. I think they should create a society where like people can provide
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#31
Yeah we do. His name is Bernie Sanders. Experienced and cares about the American people
Autumn
May 2015
#78
Are you a expert on small republican minds? Not here, wrong again, I just said you have a leader,
Thinkingabout
May 2015
#109
Ha! I'm a Hillary supporter but I think you've just talked me into supporting Bernie! n/t
DawgHouse
May 2015
#38
You and Hillary against the right to education and healthcare? We have to get that on our own?
NYC_SKP
May 2015
#46
Mitt Romney "There are 47% of people who feel entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing!"
AgingAmerican
May 2015
#70
I suggest you self-delete. Hillary supporters here don't support the republican meme
cali
May 2015
#50
That sure does sound familiar. Damn those Cadillac Queens that support Bernie Sanders.
Autumn
May 2015
#62
FDR's 'Second Bill of Rights' included the right to a good education, it is not a new idea/
Bluenorthwest
May 2015
#75
Education benefits us all, tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations and Wall Street benefit
Autumn
May 2015
#101
Yup, I think you've encapsulated the outlook of a Clinton supporter quite nicely
Scootaloo
May 2015
#104
Bernie has put a way forth to pay for free college.You could google it. hint: CNN money page
TheNutcracker
May 2015
#107
At least you're giving Sanders supporters right-wing arguments to practice on.
arcane1
May 2015
#111
Who provides Bernie's free education? It is paid for by a .005% tax on high speed traders.
Vincardog
May 2015
#151
LOL, you are taking a lot of hits upaloopa but I think you have a valid observation.
ucrdem
May 2015
#152
Speaks volumes: 2307 views, 174 replies and only 5 recs for claiming that Hillary supporters are
merrily
May 2015
#175
Hi, I am not sure what is happening here. Are you making this request as a host of GD?
merrily
May 2015
#186