This blog is cross-posted at StewartAcuff.com
Joshua Green says that the leverage in DC has shifted from the Radical Rightwing Republicans to President Obama. Others say that because of the electoral sweep Republicans are chastened. Many Americans proved on Tuesday that Rightwing Radical Republicans have been acting in their own narrow, selfish political interests instead of the larger interests of the nation.
Now it is time for us and the American people to assert our interests starting with NO cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid! Take the most vulnerable amongst us off the table for reducing the deficit.
As Pretty Boy Floyd said, “Go where the money is” and that ain’t us and it ain’t our people. The rich are sitting on 3 trillion dollars that they took from us and they’re refusing to invest it. Need money for deficit reduction? That 3 trillion dollars is a good place to start.
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Stewart Acuff is America’s best-known and foremost labor organizer. He is the former organizing Director of the AFL-CIO. Acuff has also written two books: Playing Bigger Than You Are: A Life in Organizing, and Getting America Back to Work, coauthored by Dr. Richard Levins.