Posted on 04/03/2015 9:06:39 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Capitol New York reports NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and activist Van Jones met with fellow Progressives, including Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, to discuss a “template” based upon the Republican’s 1994 “Contract with America” to elevate income equality as a top issue in the 2016 elections.
The site writes:
“How is it that it’s already April 2015 and there is no serious debate on income inequality in this country, we are not talking about the things that would actually address the situation?” de Blasio said at a press conference, where he was joined by Malloy, Rep. Raul Grijalva of Arizona and the activist Van Jones, among others.
“All of this is focused on a notion that we are not having a discussion of income inequality in this country and we are not having that discussion at our peril,” de Blasio said. “We must change the debate and the dialogue and that must lead to real policy solutions because too many people are being left behind, the economy is not working for a huge number of Americans, and this is not a sustainable path to our future.
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A lot of people are already attaining “income equality” (a very low income).
And, sad to say, they would be correct. There is a big disparity between someone who has a job and earns an income as opposed to the few remaing unemployed folks out there whose 98 weeks have expired and they ain’t gettin’ much.
This explains the left attacks on Hillary.
Van Jones is the key to Valerie Jarrett message passing to the uber left.
“If we can’t have money, the NOBODY can have it.”
— Leftist Motto
REGRESSIVES are trying to destroy the middle class, so I presume their idea of income inequality is to help destroy the middle class. It does Obama proud.
---- IRS Motto
I’m sure the top item on their agenda will be income equality for the offices of Mayor of New York, Governor of Connecticut and United States Senator. They will demand those grossly overpaid offices be reduced to the national average income with no benefits.
I’m sure they will.
Well, that’s how they want it.
Everyone living in extreme poverty except for the very few elites.
Yes the rich and poor are polarizing today, but that is a consequence of liberal socialism.
Forced equality is redistribution of wealth and is not the answer, because that just forces everyone to the lowest common denominator.
The answer is class mobility, which liberal policies constrain.
Biden launched a trial balloon recently about “emancipating wealth” and did not get appropriately shredded for it. This was the green light for massive redistribution of wealth.
The wealth that will be redistributed? It won’t be the wealthy; they have bought immunity. It is going to be the middle class, especially anyone saving for retirement. The government has wanted to get its hands on IRAs and 401Ks for a long time.
Definitely; for years I’ve been posting that we’re being reduced to Red Chinese peasants.
I am seeing more and more an angry electorate getting tired of a very minority and their enablers in the MSM trying to dictate how to live our lives. And we will see this backlash in the 2016 elections.
It also means phased in nationalization of retirement accounts. Convert these accounts into something like social security. The accounts will be confiscated by the government upon death of the “owner”, and then I would imagine that these accounts will be means tested.
I pray that you are right
I see more people waking up, but don’t underestimate the number of your countrymen that are ardent supporters of socialism. While 2008 was a fluke against a horrible candidate, 2012 was a deliberate selection of a communist by a majority of Americans that voted.
There is a limited manner which to raise value of labor. It is much easier to lower all standards.
But 2016 may be different: we're already seeing a slowdown in the economy and if the drought situation in California--where a huge fraction of the American food supply is grown--gets critical, you will a recession by the end of this year like what happened in 1979-1980. And we know what happened in 1980: an unabashed political conservative named Ronald Wilson Reagan won the election in a huge landslide. And we now have the first unabashed conservative since 1980 in the race with Ted Cruz.
It is practically impossible to raise the value of labor with open borders, a de facto amnesty, and H-1B visa misuse.
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