Posted on 05/29/2015 1:52:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy. The big legislative updates that we need to compete in the 21st century and to raise living standards have been blocked by a reluctance to seek common ground.
With Washington already broken, the last thing we need is a left-wing version of the tea party. But I am worried about where some of the loudest voices in the room could take the Democratic Party.
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. Although these subjects may make for good partisan talking points, they do not provide the building blocks for a positive and bold agenda to create jobs and improve the lives of Americans.
To create jobs, expand educational opportunities and protect the environment, I propose an agenda rooted in economic and political reality. We have to start grounding our policies in facts and recognize that a strong economy is critical for funding progressive priorities.
First, we should rebuild the United States through a national job-creating infrastructure program that would allow us to invest in transportation, expand our ports and create a new electric grid. Our infrastructure, once the envy of the world, is crumbling before our eyes, hurting Democratic and Republican districts alike. Both parties want to do something about it, but we need a realistic way to pay for it. The answer is bipartisan tax reform that would free up the trillions of dollars of trapped overseas cash and allocate it to investments in the United States. Smart infrastructure investment can create jobs now and into the future, raise overall living standards and improve U.S. competitiveness....
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Is this guy going to run for President?
Its called ACORN and has been active longer than the Tea Party.
Obama helped found it.
The WP would know that if they ever did anything but read faxes from Media Matters.
It’s the best thing that could happen to the Republican Party and Conservatives. Let the far left vocalize what it is they really want their Progressive lapdogs to promote.
The middle would run right at break-neck speed.
It’s called GOPe./Uniparty
The answer is bipartisan tax reform that would free up the trillions of dollars of trapped overseas cash///
what is this trapped overseas cash?
I think they actually already do.
Uh-huh.
'Free up' other people's money so that the Federal government can 'allocate it' to 'investments'.
SEIU, International ANSWER, MoveOn, Occupy, AFSCME, Code Pink, almost every NGO, NOW, PETA, Brady Bunch, anything Soros or Bloomberg related, Moms Demand Action, Sierra Club, HRC and all other LGBTCAQ groups, etc., etc...
IIRC, it was called The Coffee Party. And it was a miserable trainwreck of a failure.
Only a Maryland Democrat could conceive of “a left-wing version of the Tea Party”, which is an oxymoron.
Wasn’t that what Occupy was supposed to be?
I thought that is the CBC and every top-level appointee of the 0bama administration, with both 0bamas included.
'Likewise, as if the global economy will wait for us, protectionists demonize President Obama’s unfinished Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. A fair trade deal is a crucial step in bolstering the U.S. manufacturing renaissance, boosting U.S. exports and growing our economy. If done right — something much more likely to happen if the negotiations are directed by this sitting Democratic president — the agreement could create middle-class jobs and allow the United States to set the rules in Asia. Unfortunately, Democratic recalcitrance is increasing the chance that the deal could be done instead by a Republican president.
Lastly, some in our party continue to engage in time-consuming rhetoric attacking banks that has little chance of producing more financial reform and distracts from far more consequential areas of economic risk, such as climate change, chronic underinvestment in the next generation and our broken immigration and housing finance systems.'
Money that was either made overseas by multinational corporations or moved overseas to avoid high US corporate taxes. Several politicians have suggested a tax holiday to allow companies to bring that money back to the U.S.
All they all manage to get our tax dollars.
Democrats are already the left wing version of the antiTea Party. They are all for big govt and big tax.
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