Sure, absolutely it is. When a person hears of a thousand jobs moving away what they want to know is when will things get better. The larger picture that somebody with a secure income can sit back and contemplate is less tangible when you are worried about your own job. This is why I'd like to see Democratic party elected officials put a real emphasis on what's important to the 90%, one main issue is erosion in jobs, wages and financial security.
Our representatives have been attacking the American worker for decades now.
"sending those emails was a mistake I will forever regret" -Donna Brazile
Any Democratic congressman who has ever voted against raising the minimum wage, reducing welfare programs, education, science or medical research, aka. actual progressive policies
you mean that non-binding resolution he opposed while still voting in favor of actual measures that would allow us to negotiate pharmaceutical prices?
He opposed Sanders resolution citing inadequate safety standards from imported drugs from Canada. Then he received enormous backlash from the progressive base. Then he asked Sanders to draft a new resolution with him that essentially had the same safety standards as the previous one.
I'll put up two names and let you knock them down if you like.
i believe in the senate record, which shows he opposed a non-binding resolution, but voted in favor of an alternate amendment aimed at lowering drug prices.
There you go again, producing facts that disagree with Paddy's certainty.
Think about what you just said.
that is the narrative on him, which i have never really examined. a little too cozy with "wall street", however you want to define that.
pretty much all of them.
Doesnt the left champion union jobs? Hence their support from nearly all of them. Unfortunately, union jobs has been declining last several decades. Maybe Dem's could support small business a little better?
Actually, Democrats haven't been great friends of unions for a very long time. In part because union members haven't been voting for Democrats. In the modern era, this began with Nixon. But also the Democratic party has taken union support for granted and not done enough to sustain and protect unions.
Right, so you believe pharmaceutical drugs imported from Canada are dangerous, then, just like Booker did, which is why he voted against Sanders resolution
What I said was "he's more to the right -- centrist maybe: I meant he's moderately right of center or center. This language stuff is beyond me.
Good question man, I should have the answer to that. I don't know, I'll look into it and get back to you.
I followed him when he was vying for the Senate seat in NJ, when he was still mayor of Newark. The dude had one of the most progressive messages I'd heard of, that's why he appeared on my radar at the time. No doubt why he climbed the political ladder so quickly. He's positioning himself for a 2020 run for president. He knows he has to toe the line between corporatist and progressive, that's why he ended up recruiting Sanders, the most popular politician in the country, especially among progressives, to draft an alternative resolution with the exact same safety standards he'd initially voted against. I'm sure he thinks if he get's Sanders on board, his progressive base will follow and they'll drop the opposition to his initial vote against it, just like, as you can see, Buck has been pushing.. (But he supports lower drug prices, too, see!")..
