tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post2323224840195253175..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: The Democrats are Running on EmptyBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-65495530436154529492015-01-15T19:06:41.476-08:002015-01-15T19:06:41.476-08:00The Nation: Are Democrats Trolling the Left?
&quo...The Nation: Are Democrats Trolling the Left?<br /><br />"The Democrats are seizing on the opportunity to be progressive at a moment when it’s cheap and easy; being out of power (or in Obama’s case, term-limited) they won’t have to pay the price in campaign dollars or blowback that would come from pursuing [more progressive] policies in an environment in which they could actually become law. After all, when Democrats controlled all of Congress and the presidency, it’s not like they made a move on paid sick leave or a financial transactions tax or any of a host of other ideas that would have helped out the middle class. (Which isn’t to diminish the very real accomplishments of that Congress.) Now they can stoke the fire and garner the goodwill of the left, without having to deal with the downside."<br /><br />http://www.thenation.com/blog/195225/perhaps-most-important-question-about-democratic-party-right-now<br /><br />* In other words, to now hear "Moderate/Third Way/Blue Dog Democrats talk as though they were "progressive", is as usual, total B.S.<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-60965215848600458852014-12-23T10:18:33.723-08:002014-12-23T10:18:33.723-08:00(The Next New Deal) Chuck Schumer and the Democrat...(The Next New Deal) Chuck Schumer and the Democrats' Identity Crisis: Economic Policy vs. Rhetoric<br /><br />"A populist message won't be enough to save the Democratic Party if its leaders continue to serve Wall Street."<br /><br />SOURCE:<br />http://www.nextnewdeal.net/chuck-schumer-and-democrats-identity-crisis-economic-policy-vs-rhetoricBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-34676816375263956142014-11-26T05:14:44.210-08:002014-11-26T05:14:44.210-08:00Obama in bed with tax dodgers
As of November 12, ...Obama in bed with tax dodgers<br /><br />As of November 12, Antonio Weiss is President Obama’s pick to oversee the domestic financial system — including the implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform act and consumer protection agency at the Treasury. Antonio Weiss also put together the deal for Burger King to move to Canada to avoid taxes. Elizabeth Warren proclaimed:“Enough is enough. It’s time for the Obama administration to loosen the hold that Wall Street banks have over economic policy making.”<br /><br />http://www.thenation.com/blog/191289/next-big-fight-between-progressives-and-wall-street-demsBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-9895326592188250922014-11-22T06:46:02.748-08:002014-11-22T06:46:02.748-08:00Related Post:
Why do White People Vote Against th...Related Post:<br /><br />Why do White People Vote Against their Own Best Interests? <br /><br />http://bud-meyers.blogspot.com/2014/11/why-do-white-people-vote-against-their.htmlBud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-87155751220404968952014-11-21T08:19:36.864-08:002014-11-21T08:19:36.864-08:00Why Rand Paul is Hilary Clinton’s Worst Nightmare
...Why Rand Paul is Hilary Clinton’s Worst Nightmare<br /><br />http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/18/this-is-why-rand-paul-is-hilary-clintons-worst-nightmare/<br /><br />The author believes that the Democrats have a strategy to marginalize Elizabeth Warren to better promote Hillary Clinton; but that (to the dismay of the more neo-conservatives) Rand Paul might run to beat Clinton in 2016. (And then maybe the new Congress might obstruct Rand Paul the same way they did Obama.)<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-47174942389225328532014-11-21T08:01:20.961-08:002014-11-21T08:01:20.961-08:00UPDATE: Economic Policy Institute:
President Obam...UPDATE: Economic Policy Institute:<br /><br />President Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Will Improve the Wages and Working Conditions of Unauthorized Immigrants and U.S.-Born Workers Alike<br /><br />According to a landmark study and survey of thousands of workers, 37 percent of unauthorized immigrant workers were the victims of minimum wage law violations at the hands of their employers (meaning they were not paid the legally required minimum wage). A whopping 84 percent who worked full time were not paid for overtime, i.e., the legally required time-and-a-half rate for the hours they worked in a week beyond 40 hours.<br /><br />The unauthorized immigrants who qualify for Obama’s new, expanded deferred action and work authorization will, for the first time, have the same legal protections as those protected under DACA, and where they’ll count most is in the workplace. Those who qualify will be able to work legally and increase their earnings, either with a better-paying job or by demanding they be paid the minimum wage and for overtime. If their employer fails to comply, the newly-authorized workers will be empowered to complain to authorities without fear of employer retaliation or deportation. The workers would also be able to access the court system in order to compel an employer to pay the amount they’re owed.<br /><br />According to the aforementioned study on low-wage workers, U.S.-born workers also suffer disastrously high rates of minimum wage and overtime violations. 15.6 percent of low-wage-earning U.S.-born workers experienced minimum wage violations and 68.2 percent weren’t paid properly for their overtime hours. Those numbers suggest that most low-wage workers in the country are being exploited regardless of their legal status, and the total amounts lost to wage theft are truly staggering. But the bargaining power of U.S.-born workers competing in the low-wage labor market is especially undercut because the millions of unauthorized workers cannot safely complain about workplace violations or file a lawsuit to enforce the law. When the immigrants’ wages are unfairly held down, so are the wages of U.S. workers competing for the same jobs and hours.<br /><br />Even after reforms are implemented and millions of workers come out of the shadows and begin exercising their rights, there will still be far too many exploitable immigrants and Americans in the labor market. That still needs to be addressed, but the more workers who have rights and are paid higher wages, the better.<br /><br />http://www.epi.org/blog/president-obamas-executive-action-on-immigration-will-improve-the-wages-and-working-conditions-of-unauthorized-immigrants-and-u-s-born-workers-alike/<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com