Carl,
I read a lot of stuff written by young people and I also listen to them on
podcasts. The big debate among them is whether it is most efficient to try to
take over the Democratic Party because its structures already exist and it is
known by a majority of people, or to start a new party from scratch because a
new party would be uncorrupted, or to join the Green Party. There's a faction
who are trying to convince Bernie Sanders to lead a new party. They believe
that because he was so close to winning the Democratic nomination, he would
draw people. All of these young people appear to be opposed to our current
capitalist system. Many talk about Socialism, but not all of them. None of them
mention the traditional Socialist or Communist parties such as the SWP. There's
an article in this week's The Nation, describing a number of groups that have
formed to resist the Trump administration. As always, the Left seems to be very
fragmented. It doesn't have these well funded think tanks like the Right has,
like The Heritage Foundation, The Peterson Institute, etc. which were able to
move the whole country to the right. All those think tanks had one consistent
message which was that "Big Government" is bad. Unfortunately, I don't think
that the Left has a loud and consistent message.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: He promised tax cuts
Hi Bonnie,
Good seeing you on blind democracy. I know that your schedule will not permit
you from attending the JCCB meetings, but if you would like, I will put you on
our email list so you can stay in touch.
It makes me chuckle...in an unfunny way, when I hear folks railing about how we
are lied to by Political Office Seekers. I think of the past "Presidential
Campaign", and my many friends who sat glued to their TV's and radios and the
Internet, analyzing every word dripping from the mouths of some very glib
fabricators.
We're better off spending our time researching the past performances of these
campaigners. For example, there is no connection between the campaign super
promises uttered by Donald Trump, and his track record, past and present. Why
would we believe the promises of a high flying, wheeling and dealing real
estate investor who chiseled everyone who came into contact with him, cheated
his contractors and treated his workers like animals.
My very first impression of Trump, many years ago, was that he was a Founding
Member of the, I'm for me First, Party.
He has done nothing to alter that image. It is a bit scary to think that there
are people who really believed that Trump really cared about their needs. What
were they all smoking?
But enough of Trump. He got the job, and we're all stuck with him.
The real focus ought to be on what we do about living in a nation that has no
political party for the vast majority of its people, the Working Class.
Following the disgusting actions of the DNC, along with the undemocratic Super
Delegate system, I officially withdrew from the Democrat Party. They no longer
represent me, and I will not allow them to use my name...not that they care,
since I am not among the 10% of the "Really Honest To God First Class Citizens".
Carl Jarvis, also a former member of the Middle Class, until I woke up and
discovered that there is no "Middle".
On 3/25/17, Bonnie L. Sherrell <blslarner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh, yes, Donald J. Trump promised tax cuts, just as he implied he
would be closing tax loopholes that allow those who are wealthy to
avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
He might have intended to close those tax loopholes, but not before he
rammed through his first tax cut, which one would have to earn more
than
$200,000.00
per year to take advantage of it. Give a new loophole now, and when
he takes away others later, his fellow one-percenters aren't likely to
grouch as much, I suppose.
What frosts me most, however, that he proposed to counter the revenues
lost by giving those who don't need it this tax cut by cutting
Medicaid spending so much that it is estimated ninety million people
nationwide will lose Medicaid-funded services.
What services are we speaking about?
Home care services.
Home-health services.
Necessary consumable items such as disposable underwear and other
incontinence aids, catheter supplies and bags, dialysate and other
materials used by dialysis patients, wound care supplies, and
countless other things used everyday by caregivers, nurses, nurses
aids, and even primary care providers.
Hospital beds, Hoyer lifts, home commodes and bath and transfer
chairs, wheelchairs.
Physical therapy, speech therapy after strokes and facial injuries,
occupational therapy, blood transfusions....
Need I go on?
I've been working as a caregiver for the last ten years, and I work
hard, with ten-plus hours a day during my work week. My job is
largely paid for by Medicaid funds, and one client who receives a fair
amount in Social Security pays almost a third of her benefits per
month to help defray her caregiving costs. Without periodic blood
transfusions--paid for by Medicaid--and home health nursing services
she would probably have been dead long ago. This woman worked hard
until she was in her mid-sixties, much of it providing safe homes for
adolescent girls who'd been abused, neglected, raped, and otherwise
traumatized in their birth homes. If anyone deserves support now that
she is aging and is largely bed-bound, it's this lady. But had the
Republican and Trump-sponsored healthcare act passed, she'd have ended
up in a nursing home costing far more money a month and receiving most
likely insufficient care.
Imagine--secretively pushing through a healthcare act loaded with a
Trojan Horse of a tax cut for those who have no need for either said
tax cut or the benefits of the healthcare act!
Why is this former Republican totally disgusted with this Trump
administration and Paul Ryan's House of Representatives and Mitch
McConnell's Senate?
Guess!
Bonnie L. Sherrell
Teacher at Large
"Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the
very wise cannot see all ends." LOTR
"Don't go where I can't follow."
We gave the Goblin King control of our nation!
