Zas posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnuR3y8HUm8

Bip Roberts posted:

I'm just gonna put my votes in a hole in the ground and some will see them and smile.

Zas posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnuR3y8HUm8

Condiv posted:

gotta say though, i'm not shocked that bip roberts is a fan of the corporate tax cut strategy to electoral dominance

i can't believe i didn't think of it before! people don't want healthcare! they want tax cuts for google and uber!

Bip Roberts posted:

hmmm maybe you should primary those people then

Condiv posted:

yearly tax repatriation holidays for businesses that pinkyswear not to interfere with unions! repeal child labor laws so that companies can help provide a good education for our kids!

Condiv posted:

with democrats? how would i know if I was electing a good dem or a bad dem? i remember when i voted for the dem who said he wanted a public option and to fix healthcare. then he gave us republican healthcare (oops!).

nah it seems like voting for democrats is a bad idea.

Bip Roberts posted:

Hmm sounds like it'stime to vote repub

quote:

Chuck Schumer: A Better Deal for American Workers

Americans are clamoring for bold changes to our politics and our economy. They feel, rightfully, that both systems are rigged against them, and they made that clear in last year’s election. American families deserve a better deal so that this country works for everyone again, not just the elites and special interests. Today, Democrats will start presenting that better deal to the American people.

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.

Democrats have too often hesitated from taking on those misguided policies directly and unflinchingly — so much so that many Americans don’t know what we stand for. Not after today. 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.

On Monday we are announcing three new policies to advance our goals.

Right now, there is nothing to stop vulture capitalists from egregiously raising the price of lifesaving drugs without justification. We’re going to fight for rules to stop prescription drug price gouging and demand that drug companies justify price increases to the public. And we’re going to push for empowering Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for older Americans.

Right now our antitrust laws are designed to allow huge corporations to merge, padding the pockets of investors but sending costs skyrocketing for everything from cable bills and airline tickets to food and health care. We are going to fight to allow regulators to break up big companies if they’re hurting consumers and to make it harder for companies to merge if it reduces competition.

Right now millions of unemployed or underemployed people, particularly those without a college degree, could be brought back into the labor force or retrained to secure full-time, higher-paying work. We propose giving employers, particularly small businesses, a large tax credit to train workers for unfilled jobs. This will have particular resonance in smaller cities and rural areas, which have experienced an exodus of young people who aren’t trained for the jobs in those areas.

In the coming months, we’ll offer additional ideas, from rebuilding rural America to fundamentally changing our trade laws to benefit workers, not multinational corporations.

We are in the minority in both houses of Congress; we cannot promise anyone that this Congress will begin passing our priorities tomorrow. But we have to start raising our voices to present our vision for the country’s future. We will seek the support of any Republicans willing to work with us, but more important, we must start rallying the American people to support our ideas.

In the last two elections, Democrats, including in the Senate, failed to articulate a strong, bold economic program for the middle class and those working hard to get there. We also failed to communicate our values to show that we were on the side of working people, not the special interests. We will not repeat the same mistake. This is the start of a new vision for the party, one strongly supported by House and Senate Democrats.

Our better deal is not about expanding the government, or moving our party in one direction or another along the political spectrum. Nor is it about tearing down government agencies that work, that effectively protect consumers and promote the health and well-being of the country. It’s about reorienting government to work on behalf of people and families.

Americans from every corner of this country know that the economy isn’t working for them the way that it should, and they wonder if it ever will again. One party says the answer is that special interests should continue to write the rules and that government ought to make things easier for an already-favored few.

Democrats will offer a better deal.

safely sodomized posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/chuck-schumer-employment-democrats.html

safely sodomized posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/chuck-schumer-employment-democrats.html

quote:

Right now our antitrust laws are designed to allow huge corporations to merge, padding the pockets of investors but sending costs skyrocketing for everything from cable bills and airline tickets to food and health care. We are going to fight to allow regulators to break up big companies if they’re hurting consumers and to make it harder for companies to merge if it reduces competition.

quote:

Right now millions of unemployed or underemployed people, particularly those without a college degree, could be brought back into the labor force or retrained to secure full-time, higher-paying work. We propose giving employers, particularly small businesses, a large tax credit to train workers for unfilled jobs. This will have particular resonance in smaller cities and rural areas, which have experienced an exodus of young people who aren’t trained for the jobs in those areas.

quote:

Our better deal is not about expanding the government, or moving our party in one direction or another along the political spectrum.

safely sodomized posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/chuck-schumer-employment-democrats.html

Trumps Baby Hands posted:

Can't wait to work hard and play by the rules so I can take a modest vacation every year. Sounds like a loving awesome life.

Yinlock posted:

im glad, this thread was actually good for a little bit and i had to pay attention to it

quote:

This will have particular resonance in smaller cities and rural areas, which have experienced an exodus of young people who aren’t trained for the jobs in those areas

Scent of Worf posted:

"iM gLaD, tHiS tHrEaD wAs AcTuAlLy GoOd FoR a LiTtLe BiT aNd I hAd To PaY aTtEnTiOn To It"

Yinlock posted:

Wow, it turns out the solution to the situation is let everything burn(including the people I claim to care about) which coincidentally is also the solution that involves me sitting on my rear end doing nothing.

what a coincidence!!!!

white sauce posted:

Yinlock posted:

if there's one good thing about that meltdown it's that it brought you back here where you belong

white sauce posted:

A cucknadian who loved Hillary telling a red-blooded American patriot

Yinlock posted:

2 lies in one

quote:

Our better deal is not about expanding the government, or moving our party in one direction or another along the political spectrum. Nor is it about tearing down government agencies that work, that effectively protect consumers and promote the health and well-being of the country. It’s about reorienting government to work on behalf of people and families.

white sauce posted:

Kinda like when you lie and call everyone who criticizes the democrats or your slave queen a republican

Except not as Canadian and therefore not as annoying

Condiv posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_PnuXelvWA&t=62s

tfw you realize the villain of zoolander would find a friend in the 2016 dem candidate

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It's impossible to reorient the government to serve the public interest, while also maintaining the services it already has and not grow the government. The EPA and FDA are already woefully underfunded & understaffed, and have been for over a decade. The "agencies that work" is extremely loaded, because the agencies that could be promoting the health and well-being of the country aren't being properly funded as it is.

This is pure rhetoric.

Donkwich posted:

actually zoolander is the dems since they cant turn left