Posted on 07/25/2017 12:05:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
There used to be a basic bargain in this country that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement. In the second half of the 20th century, millions of Americans achieved this solid middle-class lifestyle. I should know — I grew up in that America.
But things have changed.
Today’s working Americans and the young are justified in having greater doubts about the future than any generation since the Depression. Americans believe they’re getting a raw deal from both the economic and political systems in our country. And they are right. The wealthiest special interests can spend an unlimited, undisclosed amount of money to influence elections and protect their special deals in Washington. As a result, our system favors short-term gains for shareholders instead of long-term benefits for workers.
And for far too long, government has gone along, tilting the economic playing field in favor of the wealthy and powerful while putting new burdens on the backs of hard-working Americans.
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Democrats will show the country that we’re the party on the side of working people — and that we stand for three simple things.
First, we’re going to increase people’s pay. Second, we’re going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we’re going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy.
Over the next several months, Democrats will lay out a series of policies that, if enacted, will make these three things a reality. We’ve already proposed creating jobs with a $1 trillion infrastructure plan; increasing workers’ incomes by lifting the minimum wage to $15; and lowering household costs by providing paid family and sick leave.
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He forgot dead babies and unisex showers. I thought those were their chief causes.
Idiot can’t even define what an American worker is....
We already know all we need about Schmuck.
Dear Chuck,
If you and the rest of the Democrats are serious about helping the American people, there is but one and only one thing you need do:
Get the hell out of our way.
From the “if it worked for Trump, it will work for washed up ‘RATs” playbook?
Close the borders, deport interlopers and end H-1B and I will vote Democrat.
And the democrats are going to do this by raising taxes, letting in more illegals, importing more moocher muslim rapists and creating more bureaucracies..
South America?
A Better Deal for American workers.....as in Workers of the World Unite
Must print this out. I’m running low on toilet tissue.
They fAiled to communicate their values??? Maybe because Democrats and liberals don’t have any values??
Their values seem to be, support political correctness no matter what, because the worst sins in Democrat land are to be racist sexist homophobic islamophobic xenophobic etc.
Their values are support transgender bathrooms access and illegal alien amnesty and the whole black.lives matter Trayvon Martin stuff.
Sorry chuck we know what Democrat values are and we don’t buy it. Maybe what you’re pushing resonates in Brooklyn and Queens but not in other places in America.
anyone noticed democrats new slogan spells S J W. Social Justice Warrior
That should be “A Bitter Deal for American Workers.”
Like we’ve had under 8 years of Obama.
“Gibs me dat!”
I can’t stand the sight or voice of this slimy smarmy bastard.
Also the importation of illegals to take all of the jobs their promising.
Pretty lame.
Well, Dems can’t gain the worker vote without losing their all-important parasite vote.
Vote Democrat - Better Scams, Better Deals, Better Dope, Better Free Stuff!
“A Better Deal” barely won out over “We’ll Be Venezuela Without The Minor Problems”.
A Better Deal for American Workers
Benefits (*):
* free health insurance
* free basic income
* free phones
* free from jail time
* free other stuff
Job Requirements:
* Vote D every 2 years
(*) until other people’s money runs out. but we know what Venezuela did wrong so don’t worry.
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