{"id":19009,"date":"2014-12-03T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19009"},"modified":"2016-06-10T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T23:49:25","slug":"bernie-sanders-an-economic-agenda-for-america-12-steps-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/12\/03\/bernie-sanders-an-economic-agenda-for-america-12-steps-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders &#8211; An Economic Agenda for America: 12 Steps Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below was featured in the <em>Politicus USA<\/em> article <a title=\"Politicus USA article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2014\/12\/02\/bernie-sanders-unveils-12-point-economic-plan-break-koch-oligarchs.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bernie Sanders Unveils A 12 Point Economic Plan To Break The Koch Oligarchs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/8ffgQhX0kSA?rel=0\" style=\"border:thick ridge #0090900\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>The <em>Politicus USA<\/em> article provided a list, gleaned from the video, of the 12 points of the Sander&#8217;s plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"scalable\">Sanders detailed a 12-point economic program to,<\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\"><em>&#8211; 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Transform energy systems away from fossil fuels to create jobs while beginning to reverse global warming and make the planet habitable for future generations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013  Make it easier for workers to join unions and bargain for higher wages and benefits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour so no one who works 40 hours a week will live in poverty. <\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Provide equal pay for women workers who now make 78 percent of what male counterparts make. <\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Reform trade policies that have shuttered more than 60,000 factories and cost more than 4.9 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Make college affordable and provide affordable child care to restore America\u2019s competitive edge compared to other nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Join the rest of the industrialized world with a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Expand Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"scalable\">\u2013 Reform the tax code based on wage earners\u2019 ability to pay and eliminate loopholes that let profitable corporations stash profits overseas and pay no U.S. federal income taxes.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s plan. Sanders detailed a 12-point economic program to, &#8211; Invest in our crumbling infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[35],"class_list":{"0":"post-19009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"tag-social-security","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19015,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19009\/revisions\/19015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}