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kamalala did none of these for the last four years but now the sky could not be bluer...

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders praised the economic agenda outlined Friday by Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as "an important step forward in making our country a fairer and more just society."

While acknowledging that the vice president's slate of proposals does not go as far as he "would like," Sanders said it is "an economic agenda that begins to speak to the needs of working families and takes on the unprecedented corporate greed that is taking place throughout America."

 

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"At a time when the price of healthcare is soaring, Vice President Harris understands that we need to cancel medical debt in America," said Sanders. "At a time when we have a major housing crisis, with 650,000 people experiencing homelessness, Vice President Harris understands that we have to build at least 3 million units of affordable housing, provide a $25,000 down payment for first-time homebuyers, and prevent corporate landlords from jacking up rent."

"At a time when millions of Americans are struggling to raise their kids," the senator added, "Vice President Harris understands that we need to cut the child poverty rate by at least 50% by restoring and expanding the Child Tax Credit included in the American Rescue Plan."

Harris is expected to deliver a speech at 2:45 pm ET in North Carolina outlining her economic agenda, which includes a first-of-its-kind proposed ban on price gouging in the food and grocery sectors, a call to extend the Medicare price caps on insulin and other prescription drugs to all Americans, and a $6,000-per-child tax credit to families during the first year of their newborn's life.

"The time is long overdue for our government to represent the needs of working families, not just wealthy campaign donors," Sanders said Thursday, stressing that progressive policy goals are broadly popular with American voters. "I look forward to working with Vice President Harris when she becomes president to implement her economic agenda, and more, within her first 100 days in office."

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, joined Sanders in applauding Harris' proposals.

"Vice President Harris gets it—her economic agenda goes after the expenses that hit American families the hardest: housing, healthcare, and raising children," said Wyden. "While [Republican vice presidential nominee] JD Vance didn't even bother to show up for the vote on my bill to strengthen the Child Tax Credit, Vice President Harris has committed to expanding it, lifting millions of kids out of poverty and providing extra support for families in the first year of a child's life, when expenses are especially high."

Harris unveiled her economic agenda on the two-year anniversary of the enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden administration's signature law that contained major victories for progressives—including a provision allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.

Other proposals backed by Sanders and his fellow progressives in Congress were ultimately excluded from the final measure, including universal pre-kindergarten and an expansion of Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing.

"Progressives will not stop fighting for the pieces left on the cutting room floor: universal childcare, an expanded Child Tax Credit, housing, workers' rights, immigration justice, Medicare expansion, home care, pre-K, and so much more," the Congressional Progressive Caucus said Friday.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-harris-economic-agenda

 

DIFFERENT KAMALA IS NOT DIFFERENT KAMALA... VOTING FOR KAMALEON WHO "FUCVKRD" THINGS UP SO FAR IN THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION — BECAUSE SHE'S OF A DIFFERENT COLOR AND A WOMAN — IS ONLY A TEMPORARY "ILLUSEMENT" AND ISN'T GOING TO CHANGE AMERICAN POLICIES WHICH UNDER BIDEN/HARRIS HAVE BEEN STUPID AND DANGEROUS... AS PRESIDENT SHE WOULD FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE DEEP STATE, WHICH IS RELAYED BY THE MEDIA FROM THE PENTAGON VIA THE CIA — AND FUCK THINGS UP FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS PLANET WITH A WIFF OF MOMENTARY FAKE HOPE... GOOD LUCK...

 

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souljah moment.....

 

Why Did Washington Memory-hole Gaza?

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Some are calling it Kamala Harris’s “Sister Souljah moment,” referring to when, in June 1992, then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton publicly rebuked racist comments made by a popular female hip-hop artist as a way of distancing himself from extreme elements of the Democratic base. 

For her part, Harris appeared to be drawing her own line Wednesday, shutting down chants from pro-Palestinian protesters at a Detroit rally on Wednesday, with a firm, “I’m speaking now.” The chants— “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide, we won’t vote for genocide”—received this stern rebuke from the vice president: “You know what? If you want Donald Trump to win, then say that. Otherwise, I’m speaking.”

Harris’s team said the Democratic nominee for president had already met with the protesters earlier so any suggestion she was ignoring this important segment of her constituency was wrong. Her defenders on social media applauded her willingness to call out disruptive tactics that feed into the notion that the party is divided. “At a moment when former President Donald J. Trump is attacking her as ‘radical’ her confrontation with protesters on the left offered a visual rebuttal,” wrote the New York Times’s Rebecca Davis O’Brien.

Heckling protesters and Sista Souljah moments aside, the incident raises another question, just as important—is Kamala hiding from the Israel–Gaza issue? And are the mainstream media and the Biden administration helping her do it?

Consider that just four months ago, her boss had stood up at the State of the Union and pledged a military “surge” of humanitarian aid into Gaza to save starving Palestinians on the ground. “To the leadership of Israel I say this: Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip,” Biden said. “Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority.”

By July—just four months later—the humanitarian pier project was built and then dismantled amid stunning failure. A major reason: The Israelis never provided safe passage for the aid delivery. The entire spectacle has been memory-holed. But the population in Gaza is getting less aid than it was in March, and is now at risk of suffering from diseases not seen since the 1950s—like polio—and somehow the “priority” has just vanished as a topic at White House and State Department briefings. 

Calls for Israel to allow more trucks into Gaza? Silence. Questions about what aid organizations are equipped to deliver global donations waiting at the border? Crickets. Updates on the maritime corridor which in May was hailed as a “multinational and combined effort” between the U.S., Cyprus, Israel, the UN, and international donors, including the UAE, the United Kingdom, and the European Union? None.

 

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/why-did-washington-memory-hole-gaza/

 

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blast from bernie.....

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today released the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2024 presidential election:

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.

Today, while the very rich are doing phenomenally well, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and we have more income and wealth inequality than ever before. Unbelievably, real, inflation-accounted-for weekly wages for the average American worker are actually lower now than they were 50 years ago.

Today, despite an explosion in technology and worker productivity, many young people will have a worse standard of living than their parents. And many of them worry that Artificial Intelligence and robotics will make a bad situation even worse.

Today, despite spending far more per capita than other countries, we remain the only wealthy nation not to guarantee health care to all as a human right and we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. We, alone among major countries, cannot even guarantee paid family and medical leave.

Today, despite strong opposition from a majority of Americans, we continue to spend billions funding the extremist Netanyahu government’s all out war against the Palestinian people which has led to the horrific humanitarian disaster of mass malnutrition and the starvation of thousands of children.

Will the big money interests and well-paid consultants who control the Democratic Party learn any real lessons from this disastrous campaign? Will they understand the pain and political alienation that tens of millions of Americans are experiencing? Do they have any ideas as to how we can take on the increasingly powerful Oligarchy which has so much economic and political power? Probably not.

In the coming weeks and months those of us concerned about grassroots democracy and economic justice need to have some very serious political discussions.

Stay tuned.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/07/bernie-sanders-blasts-the-democratic-party-following-harris-loss/

 

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