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Authors, sign in!If we had any real Democratic leaders in Congress we would put together our “real” economic recovery package, which would include all the things we have claimed to be for over the past 20 years, such as universal health insurance, sensible tax rates for the hyper-wealthy, bankruptcy reform, withdrawal of support of our foreign co-conspirators, return of the troops from Iraq, nationalization of energy, mandated production of energy efficient vehicles, regularization of immigration laws with worker visas, and we would march to the White House with the legislation signed by enough Democrats in both houses to pass it, tell Bush to sign it or be impeached, along with his V.P., in which case we will then let President Pelosi sign it.
Just a modest proposal.
Published September 29, 2008 by John T. Bird |
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By your criteria -- which I wholeheartedly endorse! -- we have no real Democratic leader. The closest we have is Denis Kucinich, perhaps. So long as we're saying what ought to be, I wish that we would make Ralph Nader or Noam Chomsky president.
However, if the economists, right and left, are correct, many of us will be broke and out of work within the next week or two because the "bailout" did not pass. I have no idea whether they are right -- I certainly hope not.
However that may be, it was mostly the Republicans who killed the deal. So I don't see why the democrats don't feel free to now write a bill that we like, with much of what you want in it, and pass it on partisan lines. I 'know' why they don't feel free to do that; I just don't 'see' why they don't feel free to do that.
Posted by Peter Tramel
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October 1, 2008 1:46 AM
Posted on October 1, 2008 01:46