(thanks to http://usuncut.com/politics/its-not-free-stuff-its-using-taxes-to-fund-what-we-actually-need/)
The corporate media’s pundits and the corporate-owned political class love to dismiss helpful solutions to social problems as “free stuff” conveniently ignoring the multitude of corporate entitlements that cost trillions to maintain. . . progressive proposals of a free, universal Medicare For All program, free public education through the 4-year college level, 12 weeks of paid family leave, and providing millions of new jobs through investments in infrastructure are lofty goals, but the money to fund them is there if we were to simply cut the most wasteful and fraudulent corporate welfare packages that help a small wealthy few Americans while burdening the rest. . .
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. . . so now I hear President Barack Obama is suggesting that progressives share a similarity to the Tea Party in that progressives are disrupting the unity of the Democratic Party. Regarding the disruption, he is correct. But if he thinks that using the terms "Tea Party" and "progressive" in his comparison that he will conjure such vehement disgust within the conscience of progressives that they will run, crying for forgiveness, back to the Democratic fold simply for fear of implications resulting from the comparison.
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This is why, I believe, if the distribution of wealth (or anything remotely involved with it) IS EVER GOING TO CHANGE, we must have MORE from which to choose than only the REPUBLICRATS and the DEMOCRANS. We must stop fearing 'throwing away [our] vote' and begin to demonstrate that WE THE PEOPLE want public servants who SERVE THE PUBLIC and not ones that only serve the special interests and businesses who PAY to put them there. It can only be done by electing candidates NOT affiliated with the big two. It won't be quick or soon. But it must start somewhere however small.
(from http://www.nationofchange.org/bill-clinton-and-steny-hoyer-wall-street-democrats-fight-back-1396013681)
". . . If progressive and populist ideas resonate with most voters, some people have asked, why isn’t the Democratic Party doing better in the polls? Here’s one reason: Some of the party’s most prominent leaders are still pushing Wall Street’s unpopular and discredited economic platform.
Recent speeches by former President Bill Clinton and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer showed that Wall Street continues to hold considerable sway in their party, despite the fact that its austerity agenda has failed. Its “deficits over growth” ideology has wounded both Europe and the United States. To hear Clinton and Hoyer speak, you’d think we’d learned nothing from the economic experience of the last five years.
What President Clinton says matters. He’s the architect and primary spokesperson for the corporatist and pro-Wall Street wing of his party. He’s also the political and personal partner of the Democratic Party’s presumed 2016 candidate. Enormous sums are being raised for Hillary Clinton’s candidacy even now, which reinforces the Clintons’ enormous influence (and gives them good reason to please the big-money crowd).
Headlines like the AP’s emphasized the “gradual deficit reduction” theme of President Clinton’s talk to the “Clinton Global Initiative University” in Phoenix. The Washington Post reports that President Clinton was given a “glowing introduction” from Michael Peterson. Peterson heads the right-wing, strongly pro-austerity, and staunchly anti-Social Security Peterson Foundation on behalf of his billionaire father Peter G. Peterson. That introduction, we’re told, led to “an extemporaneous riff about deficit issues” (although we wonder how much is truly extemporaneous with this most polished of political performers). . . "
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We hope your Thanksgiving was great -- and that your conversation with your Tea Party uncle went ok. :)
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The
Left Bank Jazz Society, launched in 1964 by jazz aficionado Benny
Kearse, arrived at a time when Baltimore's jazz scene was in decline and
its racial tensions were worsening. Against that background it was a
progressive, integrationist group that, over the course of more than 30
years, brought most of the great names of jazz to its Sunday soirees:
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The Left Bank Jazz Society, launched in 1964 by jazz aficionado Benny Kearse, arrived at a time when Baltimore's jazz scene was in decline and its racial tensions were worsening. Against that background it was a progressive, integrationist group that, over the course of more than 30 years, brought most of the great names of jazz to its Sunday soirees: Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Maynard Ferguson and many others.
On May 17, 1967, concert-goers were unaware that they were listening to world-renowned saxophonist John Coltrane's last live performance, writes Cathleen Carris, in a profile of the Left Bank Jazz Society included in "Music At The Crossroads: Lives & Legacies of Baltimore Jazz."
Coltrane died two months later of liver cancer at 40.
U.S. Senator Max Baucus -- known as the "Senator from K Street" because of his ties to corporate lobbyists -- is retiring! Former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer, a bold progressive populist who supports single-payer health care, would be a strong ally of Elizabeth Warren and lists Paul Wellstone as one of his heroes wants the job. If you're in Montana, let Baucus know where to find the exit by shaming him for voting with gun manufacturers against 79% of his constituents who want background checks. While Max Baucus takes millions from Wall Street, insurance companies, and special-interest lobbyists, Schweitzer is one of the most popular public figures in Montana precisely because he fights big corporations.
Asked about his political heroes, he says, "One is Teddy Roosevelt, who took on the trusts, who recognized—as we ought to recognize today—that corporations are controlling not just our governments but our everyday lives, and there needs to be some equity for families and small businesses. It was Teddy Roosevelt who recognized that there are some pieces of land on this planet that are so special that they need to be conserved for future generations. It was Teddy Roosevelt who warned us about getting into foreign entanglements: “Speak softly, carry a big stick . . and the second would be Paul Wellstone, for many of the same things. Paul Wellstone was the conscience of the United States Senate. When other Senators would line up and cower behind the curtains of big insurance and the military-industrial complex because of their huge campaign contributions...it was Paul Wellstone who often times was the one vote when 99 votes went the other way. Those are the kinds of leaders that we need in this country.
(source: wwww.boldprogressives.org)
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