#ChristianLindner "spricht sich erneut für Kürzungen im Sozialbereich aus."
s/: Ja, da wäre ich allerdings auch dafür.
Anfangen sollten wir mit den #Angeordnetenbezügen:
Liegt das zu versteuernde Einkommen pro Kopf einer Familie mit mindestens einem Abgeordneten deutlich über dem (zu definieren), was die Familie in den letzten 3 Jahren vor dem Mandat,zuzüglich dem durchschnittlichen Lohnwachstum, eingenommen hat, werden die Bezüge auf...(zu defin.) gekürzt.
Deshalb wäre eine #Übergewinnstreuer (#WindfallProfitsTax) wichtig gewesen. Daran ist im derzeitigen wirtschaftlichen Klima nun jedoch nicht mehr zu denken.
Nachdem #JoeBiden mit dem #BuildBackBetter-Plan (#BBB) das grösste nationale Investitionsprogramm seit dem #NewDeal von #FDR in den 1930er Jahren auflegte 4) mit seinem "Buy American-"...
2/29/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
Here's another that, if someone doesn't buy it soon, I may just take home. Not an audiobook but, a collection of audio from historic events on 2 CDs, compiled with a book of background info. Primarily concerned with US events.
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And yes, I am aware that at least 50% of the ca. 6mn. #Jews could have been rescued, had the #Isolationists and the #US#Nazi party, #AmericaFirst, not highjacked the #StateDepartment and lied to #FDR about the real situation in #Europe.--Or if other nations had accepted more refugees in the beginning. Originally, the #Hitler Regime would have been content with a resettlement.
Today in Labor History February 15, 1933: Giuseppe Zangara tried to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami. He failed, mostly because he was too short to see over the crowd. However, Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who was shot in the attack, later died, in part from his wounds and in part from medical malpractice. Zangara confessed to the crime in jail, stating “I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.” He was executed in Old Sparky, Florida’s electric chair in March, 1933. Philip K. Dick’s novel, “The Man in the High Castle,” is based in part on the premise that Zangara succeeded in killing FDR.
The very instant the #SocialSecurityAct was passed in 1935, American conservatives (in both parties) began lobbying to destroy it. After all, a reserve army of forelock-tugging plebs and family retainers won't voluntarily assemble themselves - they need to be goaded into it by the threat of slowly starving to death in their dotage.
America does have a property crime crisis, but it's a crisis of wage-theft, not shoplifting. Likewise, America has a retirement crisis: it's a crisis of inequality, not intergenerational war.
Social Security has been under assault since its inception, and that's in large part due to a massive blunder on the part of #FDR. #Roosevelt believed that people would be more protective of Social Security if they thought it was funded by their taxes: "we bought it, it's ours."
I don't care if #Biden is supporting the @UAW because he agrees with them or because he's scared of them - all that matters is that he's supporting them
Does anyone like the US #TwoPartySystem? The parties are opaque, private orgs, weak institutions, prone to capture and corruption, and #gerrymandering's "safe seats" means the real election takes place in the party's smoke-filled rooms, selecting the sure-thing candidate:
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"Really smart people" can't get us out of this mess. Instead, we need the kind of muscular political action - the "whirlwind" - that characterized #FDR's #NewDeal: "complete reformation of the banking industry.. just about every other industry as well. Regulation. Social Security. Public works. Antitrust. Soil conservation."
#EleanorRoosevelt was in a 40 year lesbian relationship with a journalist, #LorenaHickok, who was apparently her exclusive partner after president #Roosevelt died. Before #FDR was president, this was considered exotic, but not important enough to report. After FDR died, it was considered too scandalous to report, as cold-war era anti-LGBTQ sentiment had begun. It was revealed in letters long after they'd all died.
Ther's lots of ways to slice the #DemocraticParty coalition, but one important axis are the self-styled adults-in-the-room, who declare themselves realists, and the party's left wing, who are dismissed as idealists who don't understand politics: neither how to win elections nor how to wield power.
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You see, the rabble is useful when you're out there, trying to turn voters out to the polls. But if you plan to spend your term in office playing eleven dimensional chess, you don't want the mob jostling your elbow and shouting in your ear.
If #FDR's (possibly apocryphal) motto was "I want to do it, now make me do it"; Obama's was "I want to do it, now go away."
'A cruel desert of dictatorship': FDR's July 4, 1941 warning against 'tyranny' rings true 82 years later
"now, in our generation — in the past few years — a new resistance, in the form of several new practices of tyranny, has been making such headway that the fundamentals of 1776 are being struck down abroad. And definitely, they are threatened here."
People act like #FDR threatened to expand the court and the #SCOTUS capitulated, but that's not what happened.
He didn't have to ask people to "vote harder" in 1937 because they already had in 1936. His policies were overwhelmingly popular, he had a commanding reelection, and his party had supermajorities in the house and the senate.
Say what you will about Biden, but he can't pull FDR's tactics and win when he doesn't have FDR's base of support.
🧵I know I mostly toot about #Ukraine here, but the #SCOTUS has got me annoyed. More than they usually irritate me. People in my generation (elder #millennial), #GenX'ers, and #Boomers, mostly grew up with a court that's legacy was in many ways progressive. As a result, most folks respected & trusted the SCOTUS as an institution, especially when compared to the other branches of #government. #Watergate, #Clinton's #impeachment, & various #bribery & #misconduct scandals in #congress 1/n
i/: Of course the #Construction Workers Union endorses #President#Biden!--He'been their best salesman since #FDR!
(Whereas #TFG didn't even manage to build a Wall."