Posted on 08/09/2011 9:22:06 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Liberals outline stimulus agenda in 'Contract for the American Dream' By Erik Wasson - 08/09/11 10:57 AM ET
Liberal organizations and unions are frustrated that President Obama has not aggressively pushed a new jobs stimulus agenda and they are offering up a consolidated fall agenda for Democrats to embrace as an alternative to austerity.
Representatives of MoveOn, Rebuild the Dream and the Center for Economic Policy and Research will join Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) on Tuesday to launch a progressive “Contract for the American Dream” to urge the administration and Congress to turn away from budget cutting and focus on job creation.
The Contract is a mix of proposals that could make their way into a fall jobs compromise with Republicans and more far reaching goals such as universal government run healthcare for all that are far less likely to be enacted.
In 10 bullet points, the Contract calls for massive new spending and taxes.
At the top of the list are items President Obama has been calling for: investing in infrastructure, clean energy strengthening public education. These “winning the future” items were included in Obama’s 2012 budget, which was rejected unanimously in the Senate which had become focused on budget cutting by late spring.
The Contract also calls for a crackdown on corporations to enforce equal pay for equal work, reforming Social Security only by lifting the cap on payroll taxes, accelerating the pullout of Afghanistan and overhauling the campaign finance system.
On taxes, the groups are calling for an end to Bush-era tax rates and a new higher tax bracket for millionaires and a surcharge on a Wall Street trades of 1/20th of 1 percent.
“We have a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis,” the Contract reads.
“The federal government must act now to put Americans back to work, and that will require reversing the premature focus on deficit reduction,” Robert Borosage of the Campaign for America’s Future said. In a separate release he called for expanding Americorps and creating new direct work programs he calls Urban Corps, Green Corps and Service Corps. He calls for direct intervention to prevent layoffs on the local level of teachers and police.
The Contract is also being promoted by the Change to Win union coalition and a host of smaller groups.
Scary. Perot was right on his "Giant Sucking Sound".
“Contract” “American Dream”... focus group and poll tested words. Let’s string ‘em together and attach them to our wish list. The voters will think we’ve come up with something new and wonderful!
>>a progressive “Contract for the American Dream” to urge the administration and Congress to turn away from budget cutting
Sounds more like a “Requiem for the American Dream”.
Fixed it.
Please adopt this agenda Obummer. Clean energy was a bust for the Regime. Stimulus spending for "Shovel Ready" was a boondoggle. Teachers are cheating to pass students. He will be destroyed on these issues if we have a GOP candidate that can throw a punch.
Well, this reiterates what we already knew: These snobs might have learned something important in college, but it wasn’t how to run a business.
Putzes.
“We have a jobs crisis, not a deficit crisis,” the Contract reads.
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I’m scared. I’m confused.
This is so ludicrus, that I’m not sure this is from The Onion or not.
But knowing liberals like I do... I’m pretty sure they actually mean this.
Sounds more like someone is putting out a contract on the American dream.
Sounds like a contract ON the American Dream!
Obama is crashing the United States on purpose.
Beat me by 18 seconds!
“In 10 bullet points, the Contract calls for massive new spending and taxes.
Then it ought to be called the “Contract ON America”!!
Note to liberals...the American dream was always earned with hard work not given by the government.
They mean Contract for the American Nightmare! Liberals are totally mental. I wish they would give up and go to another country to ruin. But, THEY ARE NOT TAKING MINE! Of course, all other countries who have embraced the liberal/socialist/communist agenda has failed but, they are too insane to notice. Pray for America and Israel!
Being a liberal means never having to think about how absurd your pat solutions to every problem sound to those who don’t share your particular brand of delusional idiocy.
My goodness, these people never learn, and I’m beginning to think that they can’t learn. Which, of course, is why they remain liberals.
Puff Ho says Van Jones is behind this crap.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/progressive-groups-unveil_n_921520.html
Why is that not a surprise?
Contraction of the American Dream.
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