RUN WARREN RUN!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D ***************** “The game is rigged – rigged to work for those who have money and power… Meanwhile hard-working families are told they’ll just have to live with smaller dreams for their children.” **************** She talks, it seems, not only to beleaguered middle America but also both to the intellectual elite of the east coast, and the Hollywood elite of the west (Barbra Streisand and Danny DeVito are confirmed fans ; Cher tweets that “Elizabeth Warren is my HERO!”) For the moment, Warren is performing that most elusive political trick, the one that Obama mastered in 2007: looking like the new, new thing. ****************** There is solid basis for this perception. In her time in Washington, Warren has pushed through considerable reform: •Creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - the new independent agency designed to enforce transparency and fairness in financial services. • YOU DIDNT MAKE IT ALL BY YOURSELF In 2011, Warren delivers an impromptu retort to the capitalist ideal of the self-made man, and a fiery defense of redistributive taxation: “ There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own ,” she argues. “Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: You moved the goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate… Now look, you built the factory and it turned into something terrific? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid that comes along…”
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:54:36 +0000
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