It is no wonder the old U.S Republican guard is screaming at the top of their lungs.
Less than two months after President Obama was sworn into office, he has completed the following 10 tasks (among others) aimed at strengthening the working class and restoring civility during the most challenging economic and international period of our lifetime:
- Signed into law the State Children's Health Insurance Program (twice vetoed by Bush) - thus ensuring that four millions disadvantaged children will have health insurance
- Extended and indexed the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
- Set a timetable for ending the war in Iraq
- Formulate a foreclosure prevention plan for working-class homeowners
- Signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
- Extended unemployment insurance and benefits and suspend taxes on such benefits
- Significantly invested in alternative energy sources
- Cut taxes for 95% of working-class families
- Proposing a budget that restores the tax equity that existed during the economically-successful Clinton presidency
- Putting a $634 billion down payment on health care reform.
This list President Obama has accomplished...in 45 days.
To the proponents of incrementalism and opponents of the president's agenda, I say the following:
The day of the working class has arrived. Be part of the solution, or be gone.
For years this country has elected leaders, Democratic and Republican alike, who have sheepishly opted to address (or fail to address) the public policy problems plaguing this nation with lip-service. Republicans continued to reward the wealthy with tax cuts that have never (and will never) lead to lower unemployment or increased wages/benefits for the working class. Democratic Party members, until now, never seemed to have the spine to suggest sweeping reforms that actually tackled the ills that gripped the disadvantaged and set them free into a new life of promise and prosperity.
President Obama's public policy solutions correctly turn back the old days of incrementalism - when even a hint of progress could be easily swept away during the next Republican administration and/or congress. His "ambitious" policies are steamrolling inequity at every turn - and the American people (with 68% approval, according to the last WSJ/NBC poll) are with him every step of the way. President Obama's brilliant decision to take his proposals directly to the American people is taking the Right and their congressional stooges out of the equation. Because of this, change is coming quickly instead of incrementally - and it's about time.
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