LABOR DAY ...'Went looking for Unity
Didn't find any in the BIG NOT-SO BEAUTIFUL BILL. It left out LABOR
We celebrate LABOR DAY as a way to say thank you to LABOR … the folks who actually make our country great!
They/WE! are the ones who do what I’ve always called real work. One way to define labor is by when people take a shower. There are two kinds: (1) People who shower in the morning, likely teachers, nurses, doctors, sales clerks, office workers, chefs, or waiters, and (2) The people who shower at night. They often do physical labor, e.g., farmers, road builders, and construction workers.
These are the people Trump was talking about today when he said, “We’ve got too many holidays.”
The people we honor on LABOR DAY are the people the BIG NOT-SO BEAUTIFUL BILL did nothing to help. It took away taxpayer services. It caused small-town hospitals to close — without Medicaid funding, they can’t survive. Big city hospitals are not prepared to help everyone who will be left without services. Pregnant women will have to drive even more miles to deliver.
Farmers’ contracts are no longer funded — the rich needed more tax breaks. Trump’s tariffs have spoiled the markets. Corn has dropped to at almost $4 due to the tariffs.
In the cities, what we got was National Guardsmen military — some of them carrying machine guns, wandering through our nation’s Capitol City. Kimberly Scott’s picture below shows National Guard military “guarding” a street fair. Other photos show them leaning against military war vehicles and sitting on a park bench. It’s our tax dollar “at work.”
The vast majority of the tax breaks went to Trump’s BIG NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL BILLIONAIRE friends. And the folks who voted for this bill didn’t want us to notice, so they removed funding for Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR).
What we need is to come together. We must ask our friends whether what Republican Members of Congress did was the right decision when they voted for the BIG NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL BILL.
We must ask them: Which is more important?
Medicaid and Medicare funding, which pays for us to go to the hospital, or
Tax breaks for billionaires?
What we need most is to discard those outdated “single issue” yardsticks and come together. We invite you to join us in turning Practical Politics’ goal into reality!
Practical Politics’ Goal: To build a New Majority for Democrats that brings together independents, former Republicans, conservative Democrats, and liberal Democrats—creating a “not perfect” agreement, but rather a general consensus that moves us forward toward making the United States of America a country for everyone, not just billionaires.
Where we start:
CBS news: Jan. 6th defendants freed