MSNBC.com seems to be following Obama's lead in asking for more of a dialog. We have an opportunity to get our message through to the traditional media. No kidding, they are actually asking for 3000 character responses.
On MNBC.com frontpage, top right corner:
Middle-class task force gets its orders
President Obama's new panel will tackle middle-class needs. Its first focus: green jobs. Full story | What's your take on this?
Clicking through, MSNBC is asking their readership to share their views on President Obama's and Vice President's Middle Class and Working Family Task Force and the Green Jobs efforts. And by extension, we also have an opportunity to call for an end to wealth distribution from working Americans to the investment class.
Below the fold, you'll find my submitted effort to communicate a populist, personally felt message.
You can choose to take advantage of this opportunity by clicking through to:
Gut Check: Green jobs, green economy?
It may indeed be just a marketing ploy, but we often complain about not being heard. So, I thought what the heck. If they are going to act like Obama in reaching out, I certainly have a few thousand pent up words to share.
Here was my effort at writing a populist, note from my heart. For what it's worth.
Our highway system project, space exploration, rural electrification, and infrastructure investments are examples of smart, big government that made us a stronger and more prosperous nation for decades. Big government projects are NOT "the problem"-- as long as they are SMART projects! President Obama's Green Jobs, Stimulus Plan, and efforts to put the middle class to work building this country for the next century are smart, bold government efforts.
Will President Obama get everything right? Probably not; we are teetering on the brink of a Depression. However, it is very clear that he's trying, and that he sincerely cares about the working people in this country. And, that's clearly better than the Rush Limbaugh who said, "I hope he fails," and the Republicans in the House of Representatives who seem to still want the small government and tax cuts for the rich that got us into this mess!
It's time to stop "wealth redistribution" from the middle class to Wall Street bankers' bonuses and Mobile Exxon obscene profits. It's time for the top 2% to pay more than 17% income taxes -- especially since they never used the tax breaks they were given over the last 8 years to invest in America. Instead, they took the tax breaks and invested in factories overseas. It's time for CEO's to make 40x what their workers make like they did in 70's instead of the 170x they do now, even as they layoffs thousands of workers. It's time for us to demand that the investment class stop waging class warfare on their customers, the working people of America.
And if anyone thinks I'm just being silly or libural or socialist or whatever, I have some common sense questions for you from a Knothole baseball mom:
Are YOU as a working family better off after 8 years of giving your everything at work to make productivity increase as your wages decreased? Is your health care better haven given up Hillary Clinton's health plan initiative in the 1990's and giving your trust and money to for-profit, health insurance companies? Are your children doing well under No Child Left Behind? Are there more job opportunities for you having given those big tax cuts to the rich for 8 years? Are we better off as a nation? No? Then, who did do MUCH better and ended up doubling their income over that period in time?
Enough is enough. We elected President Obama, now we should give him a chance and our support.
We are in such trouble as a nation, that I call on the Republican Party to stop the partisan games – like the 0 votes for the Stimulus Plan from the House of Representatives. I must have heard 20 talking heads making fun of contraceptive subsidies for middle class and working poor Americans. State Medicaid budgets are out of control, and Republicans can’t understand the relationship between SMART, supported family planning and the short and long term costs associated with high risk, unplanned pregnancies among uninsured people? That states need this root cause issue addressed, so they can redirect their state monies back to local infrastructure and avoid teacher and police layoffs? I get it, and I think they did too.
I encourage the Republicans to join with the Democrats – we are one country – we are Americans – to sincerely help President Obama and the middle class and working people of America succeed. We can choose to follow the example of Hoover, but I hope that everyone in America will get on-board to help President Obama make this work.