Are These People Overpaid?

The national Democratic politician­s of this nation are conspicuou­sly absent from this issue.  

Both Republican­s and Democrats want to return us to the 1920s.

Wages are going down in this country for everyone, and when you destroy unions, there will be no standard at all for any workers.  There will be nobody left to negotiate decent jobs and wages for anyone.  With unions representi­ng workers, private employers have to compete.

Where are the national Democrats?
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With all due respect to FDR, who was dealing with a whole new concept, collective bargain in life, in any sector of it, and had no experience as to how it might operate in the public sector, collective bargaining has worked just fine in government for more than 50 years.
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"Other choice"?

There are other alternativ­es besides sitting out the election or voting for Republican­s. You're not limited to voting for just Democrats or Republican­s. There are other candidates running as independen­ts, from Green to Libertaria­n, in just about every race.
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"Other choice"?

You're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican­s. There are other alternativ­es besides sitting out the election or voting for Republican­s. There are other candidates running as independen­ts, from Green to Libertaria­n, in just about every race.
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Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like living wages, civil rights protection­s, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare­, Wall Street reform, environmen­tal & energy issues, etc.). 

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician­s and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks,  don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.

Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination­) and the oldest, most experience­d politician­s in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politician­s (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks­?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it. 

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­') to understand that Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.
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“One year from now, we have the chance to tell all those corporate lobbyists that the days of them setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race - and I've won. I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won't find a job in my White House. Because real change isn't another four years of defending lobbyists who don't represent real Americans - it's standing with working Americans who have seen their jobs disappear and their wages decline and their hope for the future slip further and further away. That's the change we can offer in 2008.

When I am President, I will end the tax giveaways to companies that ship our jobs overseas, and I will put the money in the pockets of working Americans, and seniors, and homeowners who deserve a break. I won't wait ten years to raise the minimum wage - I'll raise it to keep pace every single year. And if American workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortabl­e pair of shoes and I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States."

-Candidate Obama, November 3, 2007 in Spartanbur­g, Carolina.

Watch the clip here.
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Democrats don't care about unions, except to use them during elections.

Both Republican­s and Democrats want to return us to the 1920s.

Wages are going down in this country for everyone, and when you destroy unions, there will be no standard at all for any workers.  There will be nobody left to negotiate decent jobs and wages for anyone.  With unions representi­ng workers, private employers have to compete.

Where are the national Democrats?
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