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(8 posts)they need to relook at where they are going and what they are backing.
If Bernie can win the nomination - or come very close - then he would be the best candidate since he is bringing in Independents, Greens, Republicans and newly registered voters. His message is uniting AMERICANS!
This is about the fact that the 'recovery' Pres Obama managed to make has not been felt by too many Americans.
They are losing assets, losing wages, losing full time jobs, working multiple jobs, and paying more for less on a daily basis.
When $10.10 is needed to cover the bare basics in the cheapest state, and $14.51 is considered enough to manage a small savings to cover a sick day to survive, $15 an hour is a reasonable minimum wage.
Tax cuts, credits, and subsidies do not lower prices or create investment - here!
Refusing to support manufacturing HERE is not a plan with a future. Once a nation goes below 17% manufacturing they lose standing -- although the Republicans and Trump are making people question US leadership in the world.
Trade Treaties that increase the trade deficit are not worth having. That is the net result of NAFTA, CAFTA, SHAFTA (TPP)!
Reaganomics made pensions changed to assets, so the leveraged buyouts can force debt on a corporation and make the corporations pay for being bought out! Dumping the buyers debt onto a corporation! That isn't sound business practice - that is gutting business and destroying it! The 'debt' ratio of business today is not sustainable.
Bernie wants to invest in America and Americans - and make jobs HERE with decent wages. Bernie's agenda is about supporting the 99% and doing what WE THE PEOPLE want. Not ignoring commonly supported interests of most Americans because the oligarchs need to fleece some more.
Independents are the biggest percentage of voters today. The Democratic Party needs to go back to supporting the 99% instead of the shrinking base they switched to that their legislation doesn't grow!