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Published on Monday, August 15, 2011 by Countdown With Keith Olbermann / Current TV
Rep. Jan Schakowsky on Putting More Americans to Work
Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois discusses her new budget plan that pledges to create 2.2 American million jobs.
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Show AllRep. Schakowsky needs to leave the Democratic Party and continue serving her district as an independent or in a third party if she hopes to manifest a progressive agenda...the Democratic Party is only interested in maximizing corporate contributions.
Some great - albeit not original - ideas, Jan. How about paying for even bigger programs with the money that we're currently wasting on Israel?
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We have "loaned" BILLIONS to Israel over the years - beyond the official yearly aide - a fact few know about and we have NEVER asked Israel to repay...
Our general aide to the world is very low compared to that of European nations and needs to go up.
Jan has great views but her tax reform plan is VERY timid: She needs to go back to tax brackets we had before Kennedy or at least before Reagan and support a Tobin tax (not 0.1% but 3% at least, given the seriousness of the situation: the US debt is worse than that of Greece or Portugal, Italy).
Time for a Tax on wealth above 3 Million. A 10% tax for 3-5 years to pay entirely for the cost of 2 wars is necessary and those whose income went up the most or worth increased the most over 11 years MUST pay back. Halliburton and others should be asha\med of being war-profiteers: Not such an immoral thing occurred in WWII...
As soon as she said BO is now on the right track, I got skeptical. I hope I'm wrong.
me TOO...
She and Sanders, Kucinich + Feingold and the 1-2 true progressives who ran and lost last fall MUST form the NPP (new progressive party NOW).
She also must co-sponsor 2Constitutional amendments
1)
to reverse Citizens United supreme court decision and set up public funding of elections and
2) the limit of the number of lobbyists to 450 with 90% representing only people's interests and salaries not exceeding 3 times minimum wage...
She is completely on the money and this is obviously what Obama should have done on day one, only 3x bigger. The only word out of Washington I want to here at this point is "jobs" and how to keep the few they are creating here in the U.S. Why don't people know their own history and why don't I ever here anyone utter F.D.R.'s name? He was elected to 4 terms for a reason. I don't want to see Obama on these folksy/phony bus tours or playing 5 hour golf rounds but actually working to turn this ship around but that ain't gonna happen and I know that. There was a reason I voted for Nader. At this point I'm hoping Feingold will throw his hat in the ring or that Hillary will primary him because we can't have another 4 years of this shit.
green economy? renewable energy?
A solar pannel on each American home! U are right margoelena!
Also we must move from 110volt to 220volts . Why?
because 220 is more economical to transport. The Europeans did it in the 60's and actually bought US made transformers to supply (FREE) for EACH electrical device in each home.
Costly NOW but GOOD for the future of America which is third- world in that respect
Creating 2.2 million jobs is a very good beginning. Three years of being off-track has damaged the country and is not acceptable. Thank you Representative Schakowski for your sound and commonsensical proposal.
Rep. Kucinich also has a proposal to create jobs: WPA, CCC, clean energy and infrastructure jobs. According to Rep. Kucinich, President Obama's trade deals with Korea and Columbia will cost America approximately 200,000 additional jobs. Disgusting!
Problem: Will Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats (conservatives) in Congress pass the jobs creating proposals? If they don't, citizens must vote every one of them out of office.
It is no wonder that more and more people are calling for a Third Party - a Genunine Progressive Party. We cannot withstand 4 more years of these missteps, misjudgments and surrendering to extremists (fanatics) who are destroying our country and its people. We will be driven into a hole that will take years to get out of, and there are no guarantees we would make it. We must make the right decision now as to whom we want to LEAD this country.