Thursday, February 18, 2016

Why Not Go For It??

Ok, the way I see it is that with Bernie Sanders, we at least have a chance to get real change in our election process among many other things.
Hillary Clinton has many of the same ultimate goals that Bernie has, but it seems that she wants to take things in incremental steps, where Bernie Sanders wants to get things accomplished right away.

Many pundits or "talking heads" seen on television have said that Bernie doesn't have a chance of getting campaign finance reform done so we shouldn't waste our time voting for him. We shouldn't vote for someone who has no chance of getting his agenda through. But I ask how do we know what is possible or impossible if nobody ever has the guts to try? 

People that ask for change have always been fought at every turn by opposing forces way back to the American Revolution!  Those brave patriots were going up against unsurmountable odds but eventually prevailed.  They wanted their freedom from oppression and unfair taxing from Great Britain.

Well now as I see it, the upper 1% is our current day Great Britain.  The Republicans want to overturn every safety net that the Democrats have fought for and won since the New Deal went into effect in the 1930's. They want to do away with Medicare and they want to privatize Social Security and turn those funds over to their Wall Street buddies and let them gamble with the future of our senior citizens who depend on what little they get from that system the way it is.   They want to do away with labor unions so that the working class have to work for far less wages and benefits than they enjoyed since the 1940's post World War II era.  The Republicans say that a minimum wage of $7.25 per hour is ample and that a raise to $15.00 per hour would be a job killer.  Studies done in several cities like Seattle, WA have proven them wrong.  It has actually improved the economy a great deal since it has been put into effect.  Workers their have a chance of a better life now that they can earn a living wage.  We can't let that happen. We need change right now.

So I wonder if the time isn't right for the kind of changes Bernie Sanders wants to implement, then when is it the right time? 

What do you think?

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