Chuck Schumer: A Better Deal for American Workers

[WNYresident]

Chuck Schumer: A Better Deal for American Workers

Americans are clamoring for bold changes to our politics and our economy. They feel, rightfully, that both systems are rigged against them, and they made that clear in last year’s election. American families deserve a better deal so that this country works for everyone again, not just the elites and special interests. Today, Democrats will start presenting that better deal to the American people.


There used to be a basic bargain in this country that if you worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement. In the second half of the 20th century, millions of Americans achieved this solid middle-class lifestyle. I should know — I grew up in that America.


But things have changed.
Today’s working Americans and the young are justified in having greater doubts about the future than any generation since the Depression. Americans believe they’re getting a raw deal from both the economic and political systems in our country. And they are right. The wealthiest special interests can spend an unlimited, undisclosed amount of money to influence elections and protect their special deals in Washington. As a result, our system favors short-term gains for shareholders instead of long-term benefits for workers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/24/opinion/chuck-schumer-employment-democrats.html

[WNYresident]

And for far too long, government has gone along, tilting the economic playing field in favor of the wealthy and powerful while putting new burdens on the backs of hard-working Americans.

I disagree with this at least in NYS.

Just review your property taxes and how "government" spends our money at the county and state level. He is the problem. He never had issue putting a burden on the backs of any net tax payer.

Democrats have too often hesitated from taking on those misguided policies directly and unflinchingly — so much so that many Americans don’t know what we stand for. Not after today. Democrats will show the country that we’re the party on the side of working people — and that we stand for three simple things.

Democrats have too often never hesitated from taking more money from the net tax payer to be spent on misguided policies or their own self benefit

First, we’re going to increase people’s pay. Second, we’re going to reduce their everyday expenses. And third, we’re going to provide workers with the tools they need for the 21st-century economy.

First, The only pay "government is good at increasing" is their own or increasing their "own" workforce.

State releases emails showing Pigeon, others alerted to publicly posted jobs

Second, it will never happen. They will never reduce the expense they themselves have created. I think we need a state constitution change to make any meaningful changes.

Third, they need to get out of they way. It's not about tools people need. They need to cut themselves which will never happen.

Over the next several months, Democrats will lay out a series of policies that, if enacted, will make these three things a reality. We’ve already proposed creating jobs with a $1 trillion infrastructure plan; increasing workers’ incomes by lifting the minimum wage to $15; and lowering household costs by providing paid family and sick leave.

Won 't help. The problem is "government". The system that created the issues is the issue.

[leftWNYbecauseofBS]

You can't pick and choose which items you want from history to exist today. Yes, there was a time when if worked hard and played by the rules, you could own a home, afford a car, put your kids through college and take a modest vacation every year while putting enough away for a comfortable retirement. But a lot has changed to move us away from that time. You can't just expect a previous result without removing all of the changes.

The reason you could put your kid through college is it didn't equal an annual salary to do so. UB costs $22,062 a year to attend for in-state and $38,562 for out-of-state. Now liberals will point to how $6,770 for just Tuition is affordable. But this is a limited take. 50 years ago, everything was affordable. In-state or out-of-state, it didn't matter. Students could matriculate at universities based on what was going to provide the best education rather than what they can afford.

The federal government is flooding the market with funds, unchecked for decades, broke the system. It allowed Universities to charge way more than they are worth. It allowed students to take on way more debt than they could repay. Oh...and it slowed or removed their ability to buy things like a home or a car once they graduated. But Chucky does not want to talk about this.

Let's talk about modest vacations as it a pretty good illustration of how the middle class never went anywhere. A modest vacation is packing the kids in a car and driving to the beach and staying in roadside motels along the way. A modest vacation is keeping it simple. A modest vacation is not flying the entire family to Disney, staying at a resort for a week and spending several thousand on an amusement park. Neither of these options is wrong, but one of them is not a 'middle class' vacation. Having multiple flat panel TVs is not middle class. Having each member of the family own an iPhone, and a Macbook is not middle class. Spending several hundred dollars a month on cable and cell phones is not middle class.

[WNYresident]

Let's talk about modest vacations as it a pretty good illustration of how the middle class never went anywhere. A modest vacation is packing the kids in a car and driving to the beach and staying in roadside motels along the way. A modest vacation is keeping it simple. A modest vacation is not flying the entire family to Disney, staying at a resort for a week and spending several thousand on an amusement park. Neither of these options is wrong, but one of them is not a 'middle class' vacation. Having multiple flat panel TVs is not middle class. Having each member of the family own an iPhone, and a Macbook is not middle class. Spending several hundred dollars a month on cable and cell phones is not middle class.

You mean people don't want to live within their means?


Many people get themselves into trouble with their credit cards. If you don't have the cash to buy a toy you shouldn't. Toy = something you don't have to have like a large screen TV when a smaller one will do.

[grump]

Chuck Schumer is a horse's ass.

[WNYresident]

Why has he been able to stay in office for so long?