Senator Elizabeth Warren is campaigning for re-election in Massachusetts. This weekend she travelled to a Trump-friendly area of her state -- Lowell, Massachusetts. She spoke about the demise of the middle class.
At a weekend town hall meeting here, the Massachusetts Democrat began with a treatise about how the economy worked far better for the middle class in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Now, Ms. Warren said, the middle class is no longer an equal partner in the nation’s economic growth and there is little hope for anyone who is not rich, powerful and connected.
“It is not the America of our dreams,” she told about 500 people who packed into a steamy hall at a local job-training agency. “It is the America of our nightmares.”
Senator Warren also said the Democrats, including herself, should campaign on more than just trying to prevent the destruction of Obamacare. Democrats need to campaign for single payer as a long-term solution.
Blocking the GOP rollback of provisions in the Affordable Care Act, Ms. Warren said, is not enough. She said Democrats on the ballot in the next two federal elections should back a national single-payer health-care plan.
“President Obama tried to move us forward with health-care coverage by using a conservative model that came from one of the conservative think tanks that had been advanced by a Republican governor in Massachusetts,” she said during an interview in her Senate office last week. “Now it’s time for the next step. And the next step is single payer.”
Wall Street Journal
The next step is single payer no matter what happens this week. We need to save Obamacare and then build on it.
If you want to contribute to her re-election campaign, here’s a link.
Link to Elizabeth Warren Campaign website.