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Survey by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee

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Here is an email, I just received from Ben Ray Luján at The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

Hi everybody.

My name is Ben Ray Luján. As you may have heard, I’m the new Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. And I want to loop you in on something pretty cool.

Right now, my team is preparing our strategy for 2016. This is when we start to think about the issues we’ll make a top priority, and the campaign strategies that will help Democrats win.

There are so many exciting ideas I want to share to rebuild our middle class and the heart of America, but first I want to hear from you.

Click here to answer our 2016 issue survey and tell us what matters most to you:

http://action.dccc.org/2016-Priorities-Survey

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. Looking forward to working with you!

Ben Ray Luján
DCCC Chairman 



You might want to tell him to promote the plan that was the focus of my previous post, Bernie Sanders – An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward.


You might also mention how important it is to bring criminal charges against the executives on Wall Street who committed fraud against their own companies while bringing the world economy to the brink of collapse.  What the Democratic leadership needs to hear is that as long as high crime continues to pay high returns to the criminals, there will not be much progress in fixing what ails this country.  Without the promise of reform that the bottom 90% of wage earners can believe in, then Democrats do not deserve to win elections.




After I took the survey, the DCCC sent me a thank you and urged me to promte the survey among friends using the following image:


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I replied that I would not be using this image, as President Obama is no longer the symbol of our hopes.  If they can’t understand that anyone who promotes Wall Street favoritism is not a good symbol to use, then their campaign for 2016 is doomed to failure from the start.


    

    
                                    

                                
                                                            
                                                                    

                                        
    

              

          
Bernie Sanders – An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward
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The video below was featured in the Politicus USA article Bernie Sanders Unveils A 12 Point Economic Plan To Break The Koch Oligarchs.



    





The Politicus USA article provided a list, gleaned from the video, of the 12 points of the Sander’s plan.




Sanders detailed a 12-point economic program to,


– Invest in our crumbling infrastructure with a major program to create jobs by rebuilding roads, bridges, water systems, waste water plants, airports, railroads and schools.




– Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations. 


– Develop new economic models to support workers in the United States instead of giving tax breaks to corporations which ship jobs to low-wage countries overseas.


–  Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.


– Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty. 


– Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make. 


– Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. 


– Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore America’s competitive edge compared to other nations.


– Break up big banks. The six largest banks now have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product, over $9.8 trillion. They underwrite more than half the mortgages in the country and issue more than two-thirds of all credit cards. 


– Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost.


– Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs. 


– Reform the tax code based on wage earners’ ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes.






I think this is a plan that all progressives ought to be able to promote enthusiastically.  We cannot fight the oligarchs by just being negative about what they are doing and want to do more of.  We have to demonstrate a vision of what we would do differently.  This plan by Bernie Sanders is an excellent one.