https://www.dailykos.com/news/debtcrises News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:32:23 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 15:32:23 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/18/1203120/-Progressive-Vision-Over-Austerity-Is-The-Only-Hope-For-America <p>Crossposted from <a href="http://www.hillbillyreport.org/diary/4567/progressive-over-austerity-is-the-only-hope-for-america">Hillbilly Report.</a></p> <p>It is no secret to millions of Americans that career politicians in Washington D.C. simply do not seem to care one bit about the real problems Americans face today. That is evident with their refusal to concentrate on the real crises in America right now namely a jobs crises and an income crises. Instead they are drumming up the "debt crises" as the main problem we face and are telling all of us that we are the ones who caused it. Worse yet, even when it comes to the debt these politicians have it all wrong.</p> rss@dailykos.com (RDemocrat) Austerity BarackObama Chained CPI ChainedCPI Debt debtcrises Deficits Democrats jobscrises Paul Ryan PaulRyan President Obama progressivetaxcode Republicans TaxReform trickle-downeconomics _1203120 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 05:35:32 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/8/3/1002834/-From-1911-to-2011-What-little-has-Changed <p><em>My inspiration for political belief for decades is a man who was a Federal prisoner who decried our involvement in the Great War. He was a third party candidate for President as he sat in a cell in Atlanta. Previously, he stopped the rail barons dead in their tracks and in effect idled commerce in this country until the White House called out the National Guard to break his fledgling union. His Brotherhood embraced the concepts of Socialism as espoused by this modest self effacing man, one the greatest overlooked leaders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Here are a few quotes, as true today as they were before Orville and Wilbur had ever forsaken gravity.<br /></em><br /></p> <blockquote>“The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They are the political wings of the capitalist system and such differences as arise between them relate to spoils and not to principles.”</blockquote> <blockquote>“With either of those parties in power one thing is always certain and that is that the capitalist class is in the saddle and the working class under the saddle.”<br /> -Eugene V. Debs</blockquote> <p><em>In thrall as I have always been of this gentle man, this gentleman and the hope he came to represent to millions of Americans in grinding poverty, I tried to imagine what speech he would give today to a Sunday afternoon assemblage in a shady park. Of course Mr. Debs was loquacious to a fault at times, so in the interests of bandwidth, I’ve tried to keep “his” remarks short.</em></p> rss@dailykos.com (EdinGA) Debs debtcrises General Strike GeneralStrike Iceland Obama _1002834 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:22:31 +0000