{"id":18905,"date":"2014-11-18T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=18905"},"modified":"2014-11-18T15:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T20:19:31","slug":"democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-just-does-not-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/11\/18\/democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-just-does-not-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Just Does Not Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you needed any further proof that most of the Democrats in Congress just don&#8217;t get it, here is the email that proves it.<\/p>\n<p>They could have started with &#8220;Remember none of these good statistics apply to the bottom 90% of wage earners where most of the votes for Democrats would be expected to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most of the bottom 90% does not invest in the stock market, an unemployment rate of 5.8% is still historically at recession levels, just about all of the GDP growth went to the top 1.0% of the income earners, the bottom 90% actually lost ground, a falling deficit is the last thing you want to see when we are still trying to recover from a recession, and where were those confident consumers in this recent election?<\/p>\n<p>I can hear some of those bottom 90% appreciating the rise of the Dow-Jones average.  &#8220;Yeah, now the market goes up after I had to cash in my 401(k) to save my home from foreclosure.  So what should have been my stock market profits went to the top 10%. Go ahead and rub it in. Where was my bailout?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, you can see why the Democrats in Congress won&#8217;t really have to pay attention to what Elizabeth Warren is trying to tell them.<\/p>\n<p>How on earth can we deliver this message to Congress in a way that they will hear? Perhaps my previous post <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/11\/18\/announcing-time-for-elizabeth-warren\/\" title=\"Previous post\" target=\"_blank\">Announcing Time For Elizabeth Warren<\/a> will give you some ideas.  Just the idea of her running might wake them up.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if all the Democrats who happen to be in the top 10% of income earners could just understand what the bottom 90% see, maybe they would realize why they didn&#8217;t succeed with these facts that only apply to them.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--?xml encoding=\"UTF-8\"??--> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=UTF-8\"\/> <title>The American Prospect<\/title> <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> article,aside,details,figcaption,figure,footer,header,hgroup,main,nav,section,summary{display:block}audio,canvas,video{display:inline-block}audio:not([controls]){display:none;height:0}[hidden]{display:none}html{font-family:sans-serif;-ms-text-size-adjust:100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust:100%}body{margin:0}a:focus{outline:thin dotted}a:active,a:hover{outline:0}h1{font-size:2em;margin:.67em 0}abbr[title]{border-bottom:1px 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