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daredtowork

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4. I'm angry that domestic infrastructure has been neglected for decades
Sat Aug 22, 2015, 11:37 PM
Aug 2015

While we pay for wars, domestic infrastructure is always on the table for cuts to pay for budget problems.

We need to get labor law back in place before people's lives are torn apart by the gig economy and 24/7 project cycles.

We need to repair Clinton's "welfare deform" and replace it with Housing First, Public Housing as a "public option" to bring down rents in general, timeliness/accountability for all aspects of social services the burden of errors aren't shifted onto people at the edge of homelessness, sense-it-makes case management, housing vouchers for people in training, and fast-track to work for the long term unemployed.

We need to end mass incarceration - especially as a source of quasi-slave labor (which it has become in large states like California and Texas). When we know that sentencing in the first place is discriminatory, then policy needs to change yesterday.

We need to de-militarize our society: both on the civilian side and the police side.

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What are YOU angry about? [View all] politicaljunkie41910 Aug 2015 OP
Good piece! Frustratedlady Aug 2015 #1
I'm angry... TeeYiYi Aug 2015 #2
They are angry... Takket Aug 2015 #3
I'm angry that domestic infrastructure has been neglected for decades daredtowork Aug 2015 #4
Six bullets for Jesus seveneyes Aug 2015 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author EL34x4 Aug 2015 #6
I am angry that the Dems who give lip service to all those issues zeemike Aug 2015 #7
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