Schumer sees job creation and middle-class income growth as defining issues for 2014
Source: NBC
Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, the third-ranking Democrat in the Senate leadership, said Sunday that the number one issue in the 2014 election is not going to be Obamacare or the deficit. It is going to be who can get the middle class going again, who can expand middle-class incomes, who can create jobs.
Schumers comment on NBCs Meet the Press was in the same vein as his argument last week that job creation, (an increase in the) minimum wage, and unemployment insurance will be the dominant issues for voters in 2014 elections.
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The New York Democrat contended last week that the tectonic plates of our politics are changing, because the decline of middle-class incomes and the difficulty in average people getting good-paying jobs has overtaken the deficit as the number-one problem facing our political economy today.
Schumer said that early in the New Year Senate Democrats will push an extension of an emergency unemployment benefits program that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2008. Schumer described that issue as a wedge that will divide Republicans in what he portrayed as the fight between the hard right and the mainstream conservatives in the Republican Party.
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I am sure the MSM will come up with some Third Way types who will argue that Democrats need to tack right and avoid issues such income inequality and relief for the middle class.
valerief
(53,235 posts)boomersense
(147 posts)that next year big time.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)After fighting tooth and nail to preserve the 15% tax rate on hedge fund bankers.
adirondacker
(2,921 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Yeah, it's election season again.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)he's a corporate-sniffing asshole
radhika
(1,008 posts)BlueDemKev
(3,003 posts)Regardless, we must fight tooth and nail to make certain the Democrats keep the Senate in the 2014 midterms.
NO STAYING HOME ON ELECTION DAY.
Remember 2010? NEVER AGAIN!!!
Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)I have hope that Dems will keep the promise better than Repubs, but
They need to leverage some of this through in '14. Put pressure on the do nothing R's.
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)that Schumer's big issue for next year is
going to war with Iran.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)He also gets to pick an annual. He's a special guy.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)... and with the imposition of austerity, especially on the state level... and the continued mal-investment generally, the utter failure to address the need to transform energy, transport, waste and food systems...
He better just hope QE and the rest of the patchwork monetary measures will hold the Wall Street beast together and it doesn't crash again and put us back in the depression before November.
sendero
(28,552 posts)Because only the stupidest of the stupid believe him, or anyone spouting that pablum, any more.