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doxydad

(1,363 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2014, 06:31 AM Jun 2014

Elizabeth Warren on creating jobs: ‘This isn’t magic, we actually know how to do this’

An impassioned Sen. Elizabeth Warren appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and made a strong case for fighting to rebuild the middle class through investments in jobs and infrastructure while at times butting heads with host Chris Matthews over the Democratic Party’s efforts.

Promoting her new memoir, ‘A Fighting Chance,’ Warren was challenged by Matthews to explain how Democrats could give Americans “real hope” for a future with “meaningful familiy-building employment that seems to be gone in so much of the country.”

“Well, you know, this isn’t magic,” she replied. “We actually know how to do this. We did this for nearly half a century, coming out of the great depression until about 1980. We made the investments together that helped build opportunity for all of us.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/19/elizabeth-warren-on-creating-jobs-this-isnt-magic-we-actually-know-how-to-do-this/
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Elizabeth Warren on creating jobs: ‘This isn’t magic, we actually know how to do this’ (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP

LOL, it's magic to some, those more concerned about feathering their own nest rather than looking out for the 99% of us. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2014 #1

They never looked out for the 99%, just looked at how to feather their nest with our work. freshwest Jun 2014 #6

Yup yup. That recent interview Elizabeth gave Tweety was phenomenal, such passion and clarity. Just what this country needs. InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2014 #8

Congrats to Sen. Warren, for getting a word in edgewise. Paladin Jun 2014 #2

A party full of the same passion and clarity would do a lot to push in a better direction Armstead Jun 2014 #3

"Saying that we spent years investing in education, research, and infrastructure that built a robust pampango Jun 2014 #4

Is her book about how to get this done? jwirr Jun 2014 #5

Unfortunately, we also know how not to it. Orsino Jun 2014 #7

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)

1. LOL, it's magic to some, those more concerned about feathering their own nest rather than looking out for the 99% of us.

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:29 AM

Jun 2014

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

6. They never looked out for the 99%, just looked at how to feather their nest with our work.

Reply to InAbLuEsTaTe (Reply #1)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 10:35 AM

Jun 2014

Agreed, no magic there.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)

8. Yup yup. That recent interview Elizabeth gave Tweety was phenomenal, such passion and clarity. Just what this country needs.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #6)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:39 PM

Jun 2014

Paladin

(28,243 posts)

2. Congrats to Sen. Warren, for getting a word in edgewise.

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:40 AM

Jun 2014

Chris Matthews needs to write and then endlessly hawk a book about boorish public behavior.

Armstead

(47,803 posts)

3. A party full of the same passion and clarity would do a lot to push in a better direction

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:57 AM

Jun 2014

pampango

(24,692 posts)

4. "Saying that we spent years investing in education, research, and infrastructure that built a robust

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 09:42 AM

Jun 2014

economy, Warren laid the blame for America’s current woes on Republican ‘trickle down’ policies of the 1980?s.

“It changed in the 1980?s when the Republicans came up with a different vision,” she explained. “They said, ‘Eh, that’s not how you build an economy. The way you build an economy is you let those at the very top, the richest and the most powerful, keep more of their money and more of their power, and somehow it’s going to trickle down for everybody else.’”

“Well we tried that, for more than thirty years and it really hasn’t worked. It has cut the legs out from under America’s middle class.”

jwirr

(39,215 posts)

5. Is her book about how to get this done?

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 09:48 AM

Jun 2014

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

7. Unfortunately, we also know how not to it.

Reply to doxydad (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 10:40 AM

Jun 2014

Not doing it is easier for Congress, and pays better.

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