The Elizabeth Warren – Senator For Massachusetts campaign has an office in Worcester, MA.
| Address: | 442 Park Ave. |
This address is the building that used to house the Midstate Auto dealership.
The Christian Science Monitor has the article Ron Barber’s win in Arizona House race a lift for dispirited Democrats.
Voters in former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ House district elected Ron Barber, the retired congresswoman’s aide, to serve out her term. Barber defeated a tea-party-backed candidate in a district where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats.
Of course the Republicans are claiming:
Congressman Sessions of the GOP campaign committee said “but Jesse ran a campaign focused on pro-growth policies that will lead to less government and a strong and vibrant economy.”
So if the Republicans have a pro-growth policy where was the strong and vibrant economy at the end of the previous Republican administration? How come the economy is doing so badly given that they have blocked almost every single initiative that Obama has wanted to try, and have even forced him to continue some of the disastrous tax policies from the previous 3 Republican administrations?
The Massachusetts Liberal blog has the post Brilliant diversion which makes the point:
And while Brown is anything but consistent between rhetoric and action, his campaign has shown it consistently thinks one or two moves ahead on the tactical chess board. Which brings us to the pay equality vote.
Though Elizabeth Warren’s latest ad is very good, I wonder shy she doesn’t make the more explicit points some place else that I made in my previous blog post, Senator Brown casts vote against wage bill:
The law “requiring employers to provide a reason for pay gaps when asked” doesn’t seem to be that onerous. If any of the supposed legitimate reasons mentioned by Republicans for a pay gap were the real reason, then all the employer would have to do is to say so. However, don’t you have to wonder why the Republicans think that there might be systematic differences in pay “based on performance”? Do they really think men do the job so much better than women that they merit a 30% wage differential?
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Scott Brown claims to be working for all of Massachusetts, but he always finds a reason why a particular law to help the middle-class would be bad, and he never finds a reason why a particular law to help the wealthy would be bad. Is this sort of like Faux Noise’s “fair and balanced”?
Elizabeth Warren | Heart is the newest add by the Elizabeth Warren – Senator For Massachusetts Campaign.
As I look around and see all generations struggling with the way this country and economy have been turned up-side-down, I cannot imagine how the very people who are struggling would let the forces arrayed against them make them think this election is about anything but what Elizabeth Warren discusses here.
The Real News has the interview Did Social Over Spending Cause the Euro-Crisis?.
Carlo Panico: Most media pays no attention to scientific economic literature.
Follow the above link to see the transcript of the video below.
You have to listen to the interview very closely to get the point that the government misbehavior being discussed is in two parts. Most governments in Europe were following an agreed upon expansionary growth policy that lowered interest rates and encouraged spending (maybe too much in some places). At the same time, Germany took advantage of these other countries, by tightening the reins for internal spending in favor of getting an advantage over these other countries by exporting to them by undercutting their prices.
The Germany was very encouraging of the European Central Bank’s financing these countries to buy German exports. Now that Germany has sucked these countries dry, they are firmly against a continuation of the policy by the European Central Bank. For some reason, Germany is the major roadblock to solving the European crisis. I don’t know what Germany thinks it is going to gain in the long run by killing the economies of their major customers.
This last idea is something that just occurred to me, and is not part of the interview. Perhaps they are planning to buy up all the companies in these countries when those companies must sell themselves in distress sales.
You might pick up the these ideas more easily from the interview if you had seen some of my previous posts from The Real News. A few of these are listed below.
Elizabeth Warren arrives at 3 minutes 39 seconds into the video below.
She came to the Fins & Tales Restaurant in Southbridge, MA on May 12, 2012 to
an enthusiastic crowd of about 125 people.
After her remarks, she went around the room, as is her usual practice, and shook hands and spoke to almost everyone in the room. If she missed anybody, it was not for lack of trying.
You can see what a warm person she is, and how easily she establishes rapport with all who come within her range.
The video has some brief excerpts from Elizabeth Warren’s Democratic Party Convention speech.
Now I cannot remember if this was part of the pre-vote speech or of her acceptance speech.
Here is the link to the page where you can sign up or donate to the cause.
This is a more important message than the one in the previous post, because it suggests something that you can do right now.
Tell Congress we can’t wait: http://www.barackobama.com/JobsNow
The President’s jobs plan would put teachers, firefighters, police officers, and construction workers back to work right now. And it’s paid for by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more, but Congress refuses to act. Tell Congress we can’t wait: http://www.barackobama.com/JobsNow
Mitt Romney may think it is ok to layoff government workers because that has nothing to do with private sector workers. He pretends to be so naive. With the private sector struggling to provide enough jobs to lower the unemployment rate, the private sector does not need a flood of recently laid off government workers to compete for the few jobs that are available.
Also I keep trying to remind people that the private sector problem is not too much regulation or too much uncertainty in future taxes. The problem is that there are not enough customers. Do you suppose private businesses would refuse to invest if they had customers clamoring for more goods than they can produce? What private business would say, “There is too much regulation, so I won’t invest. Let the competition have these customers that I cannot satisfy.”?
Laid off teachers, police, and firefighters do not make good customers because they are scrambling to live on a much reduced income. When they lose their income, they do not buy more, they buy less.
When you cut income faster than you cut expenses, you do not catch up on controlling your debt. Is that so hard to understand? That is why I think the Republicans are only pretending to not understand, hoping they can convince you of their nonsense.
I think Obama’s point is valid, but comparing the jobs created during a presidential administration to that of a governor doesn’t seem to make sense. Maybe they compared Massachusetts under Romney to Massachusetts under Obama. I’ll have to take another look to see.
Yes, that’s it. The title of the last graphic was “Jobs Created in Massachusetts”. Doesn’t Deval Patrick get some credit for this?
Nevertheless, if you don’t think Obama’s record is good enough, why would you want to put back in office the people who had a far worse record?
Talking Points Memo has the article Elizabeth Warren On Why Corporations Are Not People: ‘People Have Hearts’
“Every game needs rules, a referee with a whistle to enforce those rules. Without rules and a ref, it isn’t football, it’s a mugging.”
The bullies of Wall Street don’t need no stinking rules, or at least that’s what they seem to think.