Yikes! A liberal Democrat is running for president. Calls for Medicare for all, a new WPA, massive

[ProSense]

8. OK

"Progressive Democrats shouldn’t be fooled again. America doesn’t need a fourth Bush term. "

...I'll take that advice.

Between 1989 and 1992, Richardson served as the National Chairman of the New Democrats, a liberal reformist group that included Eugene McCarthy and Gary Hart.[3][4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy_Richardson#Author_and_Activist

New Democrats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrats

Lautenberg Introduces 21st Century WPA Job Creation Legislation
Job Creation Must be Top Priority for Economic Recovery

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced legislation to establish a national job creation program modeled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s highly successful Works Progress Administration (WPA). Lautenberg’s bill would create a 21st century WPA to train and hire unemployed Americans to build infrastructure and enhance public safety throughout the country.

“Our economy will not recover and our nation will not move forward until we put jobs first. Establishing a 21st Century Works Progress Administration would immediately put Americans to work rebuilding our nation and strengthening our communities,” Lautenberg said. “Across the country, we continue to benefit from projects completed under President Roosevelt’s WPA, which employed more than three million Americans during a time of great need. A 21st Century WPA would tackle our nation’s job crisis head-on and accelerate our economic recovery.”

Lautenberg’s “21st Century WPA Act” would:

• award funding to economically-beneficial job creation project proposals;
  
  
• provide businesses unable to locate a worker with suitable skills with a WPA fellow, who would receive on-the-job training from the business and be paid by the WPA;
  
  
• provide funding to communities to improve public safety by hiring unemployed Americans as firefighters and police officers;
  
  
• be fully paid for through a surtax on income exceeding $1 million ($2 million for joint filers); and
  
  
• provide $250 billion for job creation over the next two years and reduce the deficit by approximately $133 billion over 10 years.

Projects awarded funding by the 21st Century WPA would have to generate a high number of jobs per dollar of total cost, contribute to economic growth after completion, and rapidly recruit needed workers from among the ranks of the unemployed. Examples of programs that could be funded by the WPA include residential and commercial building weatherization; transportation infrastructure repair and maintenance; school, library and firehouse construction; and National Park and trail maintenance. In order to be eligible to participate, an individual would have to be unemployed for at least 60 days.

U.S. Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Jack Reed (D-RI) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are original co-sponsors of the bill.

A copy of the legislation can be found here.

http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=333977

What makes Darcy special? He's an unknown who was affiliated with the New Democrats and now he's saying anything to become a spoiler?

Darcy: "The new WPA, financed in part by retroactively rescinding the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, will employ millions of jobless Americans in rebuilding our nation’s crumbling infrastructure."

Yeah, sounds good. Who is going to end the Bush tax cuts and make them retroactive, and to when 2001?