A posting in In These Times…

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/discuss/6626/a_new_blueprint_for_change/

 

A response to:

A New Blueprint for Change

A revived progressive program must be built year-round, at the local level.

By Amy Dean

 

All this money being wasted by organized labor supporting the Democrats is one big waste for which working people get absolutely nothing in return.

Organized labor should be creating its own political party like Canadian workers have with their socialist New Democratic Party.

Ever since Harry Truman came to power working people never got hardly anything except for wars, unemployment and poverty from the Democrats who serve the same Wall Street masters as the Republicans.

Any progressive program has to call for the government becoming the employer of first choice putting people to work solving the problems of the working class.

Common sense tells us that this country can’t fight trillion-dollar wars abroad without our society going to hell in a hand basket here at home.

A National Public Health Care System would create some ten-million jobs providing the American people with free health care. We can do the same with child care—- another three-million to five-million jobs… all can be paid for by ending these dirty, costly, immoral, illegal and unconstitutional imperialist wars that make more enemies than friends.

We need to revive the coalition of liberals, progressives and the left that won the New Deal and Civil Rights legislation—- Obama hasn’t even enforced affirmative action (Executive Order #11246)... and once revived we need to create a new political party reflecting the goals and objectives of this coalition.

We need to put an end to this crap in politics where a bunch of self-serving politicians talk about “progressive policy directives” to get elected and then refuse to solve specific problems the working class is experiencing once elected.