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Twelve Key Facts About The Current Political Environment. Fact #1: Economic Inequality in America is Higher Today than any time since 1928. In the last two decades all of the economic growth has gone to the top 2% of the population.
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Fact #1: Economic Inequality in America is Higher Today than any time since 1928 • In the last two decades all of the economic growth has gone to the top 2% of the population. • Today 400 families control more wealth than 150,000,000 Americans. • Everyday Americans have not shared in growth in their productivity – as a consequence can’t buy the products they produce.
Henry Ford’s Law • If workers, don’t make enough to buy the cars they build, that is a recipe for economic stagnation.
Fact #2: Half of Americans Are One Minor Problem Away from a Major Financial Problem
Fact #3: The Economic Policies of the Right Created this Crisis • De-regulation of the financial sector set the stage for the worst financial meltdown since the great depression.
Cutting taxes for the wealthy didn’t create one net private sector job in the last decade – despite fact we have lowest rate of taxation in twenty years.
Fact #4: The economic crisis was deeper and inflicted more damage than anyone knew at the time.
Fact #5: Americans are Unhappy with the Direction of Our Economy and with our leaders. • New York Times/CBS poll has President Obama’s approval at new low of 43%. • But Congressional Republicans and Democrats even lower.
NCPSSM Poll • Obama Job Performance – Positive 35%, negative 63%. • Dems in Congress Job Performance – Positive 19%, negative 75%. • Republicans in Congress Job Performance – Positive 10%, negative 83%. • Wrong Track 65%, Right Track 21%.
Fact #6: No President Has Been Re-Elected in 100 Years When the Economy was not Good or Getting Materially Better – Except One Harry Truman
Truman Ran Against the “Do Nothing Republican Congress” Jobs Initiative Sets Predicate for this Narrative
Fact #7: President and Democrats Can Win While Losing Seniors by 8% -- Not by 21% Seniors are a Key Swing Vote
Fact #8: Two Iconic Symbols that Differentiate Democrats and Republicans • Approach to Creating Jobs. • Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Fact #9: On Each of These Democrats Have the High Political Ground • New York Times/CBS Poll shows majority support for President’s Jobs Initiative. • Republicans have no jobs initiative – just prescriptions for the policies that lead to Great Recession. • Public overwhelming supports Social Security and Medicare.
NCPSSM Poll Shows • Voters oppose cutting Social Security and Medicare by 70% to 20%. • Voters think Social Security , Medicare and Jobs trump deficit reduction.
Fact #10: President Intends to Do Everything in His Power to Change Political Conversation to Jobs and Away from Deficits.
Fact #11: With Seniors – Swing Voters – Right Wing Proposals to Cut Social Security and Medicare are Political Kryptonite.
Fact #12: Against fierce opposition -- in the first two years of President Obama’s Administration Progressives Took Much Political Ground
Health Care for All Americans • Wall Street Reform • Avoiding another Great Depression • Expanding Medicaid • Expanding Children’s Health • Environmental Reform • Expanding Labor Rights • Expanding Civil Liberties • Equal Pay for Equal Work
This Year We Must Hold Our Ground…. And Prepare Our Counter Offensive
The Battle Over Social Security and Medicare Will Be Critical to the Outcome And Whether or Not We Succeed Will be Critical to the Future of Social Security and Medicare
If We Lose… They Have Demonstrated Clearly that they will Destroy the New Deal – the Progressive Era.
They Will Return Us to the Gilded Age Pure unadulterated Social Darwinism….the law of the jungle.
But We Can Stop Them… It’s Up to Us
Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are the Key Vulnerabilities in the Great Right Wing Death Star
The People Gathered in this Room Today Can Help Decide Which Road America Takes
We Can Make History We Can Make Victory
