The Progressive Agenda isn't "left wing"...It's America's story
Thursday, 04 June 2015
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Moyers & Company | Op-Ed
In a recent Washington Post op-ed piece, headlined, "The last thing America needs? A left-wing version of the Tea Party," the Democratic congressman from Maryland scolds progressives and expresses his worry "about where some of the loudest voices in the room could take the Democratic Party."
He writes, "Rejecting a trade agreement with Asia, expanding entitlement programs that crowd out other priorities and a desire to relitigate the financial crisis are becoming dominant positions among Democrats....
...Good grief, John. A trade agreement that favors multinational corporations over working people? Cutting "entitlement programs" such as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, worker's compensation? Letting Wall Street off the hook for crashing the economy and costing millions of Americans their jobs and homes?
These are Republican policies, bought and paid for by plutocrats.
If Democrats simply mimic them, there would be no need to bother with voting for a Republican president; we could cancel the election and put the billions saved in campaign contributions straight into the Clinton Foundation.
The progressive agenda isn't "left wing." (Can anyone using the term even define what "left wing" means anymore?)
The progressive agenda is America's story - from ending slavery to ending segregation to establishing a woman's right to vote to Social Security, the right to organize, and the fight for fair pay and against income inequality. Strip those from our history and you might as well contract America out to the US Chamber of Commerce the National Association of Manufacturers, and Karl Rove, Inc.
At their core, the New Deal, Fair Deal, and Great Society programs were aimed at assuring every child of a decent education, every worker a decent wage, and every senior a decent retirement; if that's extreme, so are the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution.
But such is the level of what passes for discourse inside the Beltway these days. The cushioned political and media elites who eat, drink, and make merry with each other at the annual White House Correspondents & Celebrity Ball are so cozy up there in the stratosphere that they dismiss as the lunatic fringe any voice from below that challenges the status quo.
And by the way, John, the "loudest voices in the room" aren't populists or progressives; they belong to the auctioneers selling our government to the highest bidders.....
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/31179-turn-left-on-main-street
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This is the same elected individual that is co-sponsoring a "FAST TRACK" bill to gut Social Security with his other "Playmate" Tom Cole-R OK-----------that's correct, they want to "fast Track" ----------H.R. 1578
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026424163
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026422548
http://www.ncpssm.org/Medicare/QAMedicarePartD/QAPartDSections/PartDAnswers/ArticleID/1392/Congress-Targets-Social-Security-with-Fast-Track-Commission-Plan
This DINO wants to gut SS-because after all its about greed, and Delaney-D represents the 6th District of Maryland the state I live in.
He is going around and saying that the system ( SS) is going broke and that it needs to self fund itself just like the post office is now doing, in that debacle for the next 75 years (postal workers are paying about 5 billion a year into the retirement-------------no corporation has to do this, just the postal workers------------great huh--I don't think so.
Cole and him ( Delaney) both know that if the cap was lifted (presently 118,500.00) that anyone paying into the SS it would be fully funded after ($118,500.01---capped lifted), but no, they want to generate a boogey-man, to then go around and say that the government doesn't know what's it doing and that it should be privatized like they did in 2006 with ------here it comes Delay and Hastert----(yes ,same Hastert that is under indictment for something) are trying to do with the postal system.
So, I think, and I have done this is to call my elected Club for Growth worthless R-Rep Andy Harris -MD, and if anyone feels free to call there rep on this agenda ----feel free, to tell him or her to leave the SS alone and that the capped should be lifted --------end of story.
Thanks for the revision! 
who'd created the proles? 
Perfect! 
