Here is the list of Platform wins
The person in my state who has worked the most and hardest on the Texas and the National Platform posted this from someone she knows even closer to the heart of what's going on - to me, this is a credible report:
As a result of our success and the realization that further platform fights would be portrayed in the corporate media as obstructionist and divisive, the Senator made the very difficult decision not to file minority reports.
(Per an email to the Platform Committee from Warren Gunnels, Policy Director July 12, 2016, 3:08 AM)**Victories in the Platform**
It is now the policy of the Democratic Party that we will fight to:
1. Increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
2. Break-up too big to fail banks and enact a 21st Century Glass- Steagall Act.
3. Ban golden parachutes for taking government jobs and crack down on the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington.
4. Prohibit Wall Street from picking and choosing which credit agency will rate their products.
5. Ban executives at financial institutions from serving on the boards of regional Federal Reserve banks or handpicking their members.
6. Allow the Postal Service to provide basic banking services.
7. Make public colleges and universities tuition free for working families.
8. Expand Social Security by requiring those who earn more than $250,000 to pay more in taxes.
9. Create the most progressive Native American policies in modern history.
10. End loopholes that allow corporations to avoid paying $100 billion a year in taxes by shifting their profits to offshore tax havens. And we will fight to use the revenue gained from closing these loopholes to create millions of jobs rebuilding America.
11. Enact legislation to stop the earned pension benefits of over 1.5 million workers and retirees from being cut paid for by closing tax loopholes that benefit millionaires and billionaires.
12. Make it easier for workers to join unions through majority card-check recognition and by ensuring a first contract through binding arbitration.
13. Expand the post 9-11 veterans caregiver program to include all veterans who are in need and make sure that all veterans get the benefits that they have earned and deserve.
14. Establish a price on carbon, methane, and other greenhouse gas emissions to aggressively combat climate change.
15. Incentivize wind, solar, and other renewable energies over the development of new natural gas power plants.
16. Remove marijuana as a Class 1 drug under the Federal Controlled Substances Act and provide a reasonable path to legalization.
17. Abolish the death penalty.
18. Expand community health centers to make sure that an additional 25 million people gain access to primary care, including mental health care, dental care, and low cost prescription drugs.
19. Encourage states to provide universal health care to everyone in their states (through the ACA innovative waivers initiative).
20. Eliminate for-profit prisons and detention centers.
21. Require Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices and allow the re-importation of safe and affordable drugs from Canada and other countries.
22. Eliminate super Pacs.
23. Pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
24. Move to the public financing of elections through small donor contributions.
25. Enact automatic voter registration.
26. Make election day a federal holiday.
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While they are twisting Bernie like a pretzel in the media,
he is working behind the scenes to enact his platform - even by setting up The Sanders Institute to ensure more progressives are elected to move our country in the right direction.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Great article, RA
I really believe that Bernie knows the best way for him to fight - whether we all like it or not - but at the very lest, no way can say he's quitting.
Precisely, Haiku! eom
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Thanks MsGrin
It is good to have a platform that we can be nearly happy with, but my guess is that HRC will completely ignore it if she is elected.
Exactly
The platform doesn't mean shit. It's not binding. It's just a placebo to try to hang onto voters.
Sorry
bitchHillary, I'm making like an Eagles song and am Already Gone.from the reporting i read...
...i could almost swear some of these were voted down. #6 comes to mind. i'm probably wrong as the platform discussions were coming fast and furious on Reddit. guess we'll have to see once it's all in print but that's just it. it's just words on paper. i remember back in 2008 or 2012 some posts on another site that if Democrats had actually read the platform they would have been horrified at what was approved in their name. some examples were served up and they weren't pretty. the 2016 platform may be a bit better but there is probably some really ugly stuff still in there.
Posted by someone paying very close attention
pretty sure she has a scorecard.
Yes, the platform means jack sh*t unless we get Bernie elected.
Think about it, though - how many people now even KNOW that there IS a platform who had been clueless previously? Bernie has awakened a YUGE number of people. That's a good thing regardless of whatever else transpires.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
why is tuition free education only for working families?
I don't get it. Most young students don't constitute a "working family".
Why the fuck are they never clear, always obfuscating to get their next little trick to go around and betray everything they promised in the platform.
College and university education should be tuition free, for all students, independent of their status or the financial status of their parents or themselves.
Not debt-free, which is something completely different.
You guys simply don't want to put your money into educating your children. Shame on you.
Not only should your university and college education be completely free of tuition, but those students, who study full-time and pass their classes, who are dirt poor, ie nobody in their family can help them with their living costs, should get full stipends, so that students don't have to work full-time and study full-time. I mean if you are a student, you should study first and work may be a little at the side and not work first, and then study a little ...
Makes me so mad.
Otherwise it sounds pretty nice and pretty vague. Let's see what actually will be done. I bet you as much as nothing.
https://www.euronews.com/live
As you know, Bernie did not have means testing
...so he got the concept into the platform, and this is the form Her Majesty's peeps would tolerate is my guess. Because how could we possibly stand to pay for Trump's kids to go to school?!
(To be clear, imo, means-testing tends to be the sure-est way to ensure that a benefit gets chucked when Republicans have their way with what they consider to be entitlements - Bernie has the correct idea that free ought to mean free for EVERYONE so the 1% is less likely to object on principle.)
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Assuming that
Trump and his ilk, which most likely would include the Clintons, were actually paying their fair share in taxes, and were willing to send their child/children to a public institution, then I would have no problem with this. This HRC objection should have never been allowed to fly. Yes, hindsight...
Our village and town are so small that we don't have a village idiot or a town drunk. Nope, we all take turns.
It's for
families making less than $125,000 per year in income - Bernie wanted more this was all HRC campaign would agree to.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
'Working families' is meant to delineate 'economic' class,
in this instance.
IOW, some politicians and policy wonks think it's a less divisive, and more polite term for lower- to middle-middle income Americans.
Mollie
“I believe in the redemptive powers of a dog’s love. It is in recognition of each dog’s potential to lift the human spirit, and, therefore, to change society for the better, that I fight to make sure every street dog has its day.”
--Stasha Wong, Secretary, Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD)
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Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Which is kind of telling, isn't it, Unabashed Lib?
The oh so hard-working and pulled themselves up by their bootstraps elites are NOT considered to be working class or working families...
Yes & it is meant to be a form of humilliation like a scarlet A
or wearing a Star of David. It is intended to other-ise the less-than-wealthy and to diminish us.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
I trust people recognize the historical reference
...I am certainly not denigrating the symbol.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Spot on, HK and MsGrin! ;-D EOM
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.