Liberals have historically been the people who have represented the workers in this country. Liberals have always been the people in this country who looked out for, and represented the people in this country who were downtrodden and poor. The Liberals in this country have always been the people who took care of the middle class. We have the social safety net in this country because of Liberals. Without Liberals, we wouldn’t have Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, etc.
America no longer has a political party who represents the vast majority of Americans. We have one party who represents the greedy rich and the large multi-national corporations, (Republicans), and another party who is trying real hard to represent those two constituencies as well, (Democrats). Meanwhile millions upon millions of Americans are without representation in Washington DC.
Using a sports analogy, the political playing field in America is like a football field. The 50-yard line is the political center. The Democrats over the past thirty years have allowed the Republicans and Conservatives to move the political playing field. The Democrats are now playing on the Republicans’ side of the field.
Using that analogy, the Republicans are playing in the right-side end zone, while the Democrats are on the 30-yard line on the same side. That leaves people from the 30-yard line all the way to the other end zone without representation. This just happens to be where the vast majority of Americans reside.
Take The Affordable Care Act as an example: The Affordable Care Act is of Republican and Conservative construction from beginning to end. This is the same healthcare plan the conservative think thank, the Heritage Foundation, wrote for the Republican Party. The Affordable Care Act is essentially the same as the healthcare reforms put in by a Republican governor in Massachusetts.
Yet, the Republican Party and the Conservatives in this country have moved so far to the political right, that they now see the Republican written Affordable Care Act as a far-left Liberal plan. The Republican Party does not have its own healthcare plan to cover everyone in this country. The reason is simple. They are so far to the right; they don’t have any room for a healthcare plan.
If we had any Liberals left in DC, the Affordable Care Act would be a single-payer, Medicare-for-all type plan. A Medicare for all plan would save the America people billions of dollars in healthcare costs. The problem with that is that the healthcare insurers would make less money. They would still make a profit, just like the insurers do now who are associated with Medicare. They would just make a little less in profits. And our two major political parties: The Republicans and the Republican-lites will not do anything to lessen the profits of Corporate America.
Right now there are two budget bills: One from the Senate and one from the House of Representatives. There are Senators and Representatives going to conference to try and reconcile the two bills.
In the Senate version there is a provision to cut food stamps by $5 billion. That would toss about a few hundred thousand people into abject poverty. In the House bill they would cut $39 billion in food stamps, which would toss 2.8 million Americans into abject poverty. These cuts in these two bills is on top of the $5 billion already cut from the food stamp program on November 1st.
So, the question being asked in the two bills is: “How much should we cut from food stamps?” That is the wrong question to be asking right now. The first question should be: “Should we cut food stamps?” The obvious answer is no, we shouldn’t. There are millions of people in this country who are going to bed hungry.
A true Liberal would never allow people to go hungry so the greedy rich could continue to make hundreds of millions of dollars per year.
Meanwhile, the federal government is giving Wall Street $85 billion per month, every month to keep the Wall Street executives in the lifestyles they are used to and think they deserve. The Federal Reserve is creating an artificial economic bubble with their stimulus. A bubble that, when it breaks, the vast majority of Americans will have to pay for while Wall Street again is not held accountable. Wall Street executives are now part of the “untouchables”. People that are so rich the government can’t touch them even when they blatantly break the law and involve themselves in criminal activities.
But don’t worry America, as long as Wall Street is getting its stimulus from the federal government its is all good. After all there are millions of poor and middle class people who can pay for all that stimulus. Remember, ask any Republican or Conservative and they will tell you that those at the top of the income scale deserve as much help as the government can provide. And those at the bottom of the income scale are the “takers”. They are asking for handouts, they are lazy and if we just stopped helping them, they would get off of their lazy asses and go to work. Republicans and Conservatives have convinced themselves that the high unemployment rate in this country is because too many poor people just don’t want to work.
Conservative ideology: The greedy rich and large multi-national corporations deserve everything while the poor and middle class deserve nothing. That is their entire ideology boiled down to its basic concept: Greed. Everything the Republicans and Conservatives do is with this ideology in mind.
The damage done to this country over the past thirty years of Conservative rule is immense and needs to be reversed. The ONLY way that is ever going to happen is to have a political party in this country that represents the 300 million plus people in this country, not just the 400 families that are in the top 1% of the income scale.
Janet Yellen to continue on with Federal Reserve’s stimulus http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/janet-yellen-to-continue-on-with-federal-reserves-stimulus/articleshow/25843568.cms
Republicans had a plan to replace Obamacare. It looked a lot like Obamacare. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/25/republicans-had-a-plan-to-replace-obamacare-it-looked-a-lot-like-obamacare/
Food Stamp Cuts: A Bipartisan Scandal http://www.thenation.com/blog/176969/food-stamp-cuts-bipartisan-scandal
House GOP seeks cuts in food stamps
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/house-gop-seeks-tighter-food-stamp-rules-96873.html