Tammy Baldwin Challenges Congress to Get Serious About Economic Fairness
Speaking for those Wisconsinites, Baldwin told the Senate:
• “They see Washington happy to let Wall Street write their own rules, but unable to help students pull themselves out of debt.”
• “They see Washington working to protect big tax breaks for powerful corporations, but unwilling to protect small manufacturers from getting ripped off by China’s cheating.”
• “They see Washington bouncing from one manufactured fiscal crisis to the next, but never addressing the real and ongoing crisis of our disappearing middle class.”
The senator correctly diagnosed an old disease: “The truth is, while you hear a lot about the wide distance between Democrats and Republicans, the widest and most important distance in our political system is between the content of the debate here in Washington and the concerns of working families in places like Wisconsin. That distance parallels the large and growing gaps between the rich and the poor…between rising costs and stagnant incomes…between our nation and our competitors when it comes to education and innovation. And it’s really hurting people.”
Baldwin’s message made perfect sense to Maine State Representative Diane Russell, a progressive populist Democrat who learned about the speech when the senator posted an article about it on Facebook. A fan since the days when Baldwin—then a congresswoman—flew back from Washington to join the 2011 protests at the state capitol against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s anti-labor agenda—Russell thought Baldwin’s first statement to the Senate made more sense than anything else she was hearing from DC.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/174611/tammy-baldwin-challenges-congress-get-serious-about-economic-fairness
= new reply since forum marked as read
