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Thank you for the post FT.
You're welcome.
She is a rebel-rouser that has been arrested for disorderly conduct.
So have most politicians. If they weren't politically active, they wouldn't deserve their positions in the first place.
She fights for policies that hurt our state - and supports candidates that would hurt the United States.
Total lack of specificity.
A mandatory $15 minimum wage,
Perhaps you misunderstand this, but that's good for society. The lack of velocity of money is a pretty crucial reason everyone's economies are so slow to recover.
fighting against a mythical foe in global warming, etc.
Global warming is not mythical, but it's certainly a foe to humanity's long term survival.
You can see the SA's goals right here. So how many of these policy would bankrupt America:
"Create living-wage union jobs for all the unemployed through a massive public works program to develop mass transit, renewable energy, infrastructure, healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
Free, high quality healthcare for all. Replace the failed for-profit insurance companies with a publicly funded single-payer system as a step towards fully socialized medicine.
No budget cuts to education & social services! Full funding for all community needs. The federal government should bail out states to prevent cuts and layoffs. A massive increase in taxes on the rich and big business, not working people.
Raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour, adjusted annually for cost of living increases and regional differences, as a step towards a living wage for all.
A minimum guaranteed weekly income of $600/week for the unemployed, disabled, stay-at-home parents, the elderly, and others unable to work.
Stop home foreclosures and evictions. For public ownership and democratic control of the major banks.
No more layoffs! Take bankrupt and failing companies into public ownership and retool them for socially necessary green production.
Free, high quality public education for all from pre-school through college. Full funding for schools to dramatically lower teacher-student ratios. Stop the focus on high stakes testing and the drive to privatize public education.
Repeal all anti-union laws like Taft-Hartley. For democratic unions run by the rank-and-file to fight for better pay, working conditions, and social services. Full-time union officials should be regularly elected and receive the average wage of those they represent.
For a guaranteed living wage pension.
Shorten the workweek with no loss in pay and benefits – share out the work with the unemployed and create new jobs"
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Yeah, that sounds awesome. I'd love to have all of those policies in place, we'd be a better country and a better people for it, Many of these policies will end up saving Americans and America money (like single-payer healthcare), so no dice again, Bucky. Please come up with more examples.