70% of Americans believe that the Republican Party is out of touch with America.
100%, of the 70% of Americans who believe the Republican Party is out of touch, is correct.

The extreme right wing of the Republican Party has lived by the following statements, at various times in history:

                                                                                                                               

You can’t free slaves or America will collapse.

You can’t allow unionization or American industry will collapse.

You can’t grant civil rights to women or society will collapse.

You can’t legalize gay marriage or society will collapse.

You can’t raise the debt ceiling or the economy will collapse.

You can’t regulate pollution or industry will collapse.

You can’t grant equal rights to minorities or society will collapse.

You can’t collect Federal income taxes or America’s economy will collapse.

You can’t restrict child labor or American industry will collapse.

You can’t establish Social Security or the American economy will collapse.

You can’t enforce a minimum wage or American industry will collapse.

You can’t permit interracial marriages or American society will collapse.

You can’t allow Communism or America will collapse.

You can’t end segregation or American society will collapse.

You can’t create Medicare or the American economy will collapse.

You can’t grant equal rights to minorities or American society will collapse.

You can’t teach about Aids or sex education or society will collapse.

Over 70% of Americans believe the Republican Party is out of touch!

That 70% of Americans is 100% correct!

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/04/17/what-percentage-of-americans-believe-the-gop-is-out-of-touch-an-overwhelming-70/

I think we must: https://movetoamend.org/


  


Locally, I think we must: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DuluthAreaMTA/?ref=notif&notif_t=group_r2j

Bill M. makes a good point!

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=557484607605104&set=vb.62507427296&type=2&theater

90% of all Americans wanted laws to do background checks on gun sales at gun shows and through online weapons sales.

80% of Republicans wanted laws to do background checks on gun sales at gun shows and through online weapons orders.

A wide majority of NRA members wanted laws to do background checks on gun sales at gun shows through online weapons orders.

An even wider majority of gun owners wanted laws to do background checks on gun sales at gun shows and through online weapons orders.

90% of Republican politicians in the Senate, 40 individuals, with the fear of the NRA, blocked what a majority of the Senate, Republicans, Democrats, gun owners, even NRA membership, wanted to happen.

What is wrong with this picture?

WE CAN DO SOMETHING! by Robert Reich

Widening inequality is not inevitable. If we wanted to reverse it and restore middle-class prosperity, we could.

We could award tax cuts to companies that link the pay of their hourly workers to profits and productivity, and that keep the total pay of their top 5 executives within 20 times the pay of their median worker. And impose higher taxes on companies that don’t.

We could raise the minimum wage to half the average wage.

We could increase public investment in education, including early-childhood -- especially in the poor and middle-class communities that now lack decent schools.

We could eliminate college loans and allow all students to repay the cost of their higher education with a 10 percent surcharge on the first 10 years of income from full-time employment.

We could expand the Earned Income Tax Credit.

And we could pay for all this by adding additional tax brackets at the top and increasing the top marginal tax rate to what it was before 1981 – at least 70 percent.

But none of this will happen until the public understands why widening inequality is so damaging. Even the rich would do better with a smaller share of a rapidly-growing economy than a large share of one that’s barely growing at all.

Move To Amend is doing something. We, the people, need to educate ourselves and our friends and family.https://www.facebook.com/groups/DuluthAreaMTA/?ref=notif&notif_t=group_r2j

Cartoonist, Steve Sack, won a Pulitzer Prize for the above cartoon, among others.  The winners of the Pulitzer Prize were informed this week.  A picture really can take the place of 1,000 words!