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UCmeNdc

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 07:51 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) UCmeNdc 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
Well, there's plenty of blame to go around. JayhawkSD Jun 2014 #2
raise the Federal minimum wage Congress. $15 at least because they haven't raised in so many years. Sunlei Jun 2014 #3

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,110 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.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:25 AM
Jun 2014
 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
2. Well, there's plenty of blame to go around.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 10:45 AM
Jun 2014
"“It changed in the 1980?s when the Republicans came up with a different vision,” she [Warren] 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.’”

I have no argument with that, and at the time remarked, "What happens if the rich just keep the money and don't let it trickle down?" Which is what happened, of course. But let's admit that the pace of the deterioration accelerated with NAFTA and global trade policies which were pushed by Clinton and heavily backed by Democrats.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. raise the Federal minimum wage Congress. $15 at least because they haven't raised in so many years.
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 10:58 AM
Jun 2014
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