Re: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time

IF the Trump administration has the power to ram your list down our
throats, then shame on us. We, the People hold the real power. We
have simply been brain washed to believe the old saw, you can't fight
city hall. The fact is, whether we call it socialism or People Power,
we will only move events if we stand together. If not, well what we
have is the result of not standing together. And if, as will probably
happen, we turn upon one another when our personal turf is violated,
then life will become very hard for the Working Class.
What I fear mostly are the people who become backed to the wall and
fearful for their own survival, turning upon other groups of people
who are equally feeling the wall at their backs. And all because we
buy the crap spread by the Ruling Class. We'll not see them suffer.
Their children will not be forced to take up arms or live in the
streets. Their grandparents will not huddle in drafty, smelly old
hovels, wondering if they will find enough food for today. And by the
way, we stop by some of these hovels, providing a free service from
the government, and these confused people curse the government, and
rattle their brooms and mops at those "rag heads and illegals.
They will accept the services we offer, never understanding that these
very services were fought for by the very sort of people they curse.

Carl Jarvis




On 11/20/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> Look, it's time to set aside the socialist rhetoric, true as it may be, if
> we are to be realistic about what is facing us for the immediate future.
> Although I blame the Democratic Party for having put our country in the
> position where the Republican Party won this election, the fact is that
> there are vast differences in the social values that underlie the parties.
> Our country may be run by corporations and the war machine and Obama may
> have deported more immigrants than any other president, but whatever has
> been done so far, pales in comparison to what this new administration
> plans.
> You're going to see an increase in jailing of people for small crimes, a
> decrease in taxes paid by the rich, an end to legal abortion, a legalized
> explicit registration of, an possibly imprisonment of huge numbers of
> Muslim Americans, an increase in killings by police of people of color, a
> privitazation of social security medicare, and medicaid, an end to
> financial assistance to poor people, an increase in the powers of the
> surveillance state, an increase in our country's military activities, an
> explicit governmental approval of torture, a disappearance between the
> state
> and institutionalized Christianity, an increase in fossil fuel production
> and the production of nuclear weapons, and appointments of ultra
> conservative judges throughout our federal system. A new law has already
> been proposed to criminalize public demonstrations. The US is going to
> withdraw from all world climate agreements. Net neutrality is ending. And
> that's just the beginning.
>
> Miriam d
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 11:00 AM
> To: blind-democracy@freelists.org
> Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic
> Leader at the Worst Possible Time
>
> Too bad we keep getting stuck on Party Labels. Given the fact that both
> Major Political Parties are bankrolled by mostly the same money sources,
> there is a guarantee that the rich will remain in control.
> Why is it so difficult for many American working class people to understand
> that when both major parties are beholden to Wall Street and the huge War
> Profiteers, that they, the Working Class, will be left to rummage among the
> crumbs. The Oligarchy will do all it needs to do in order to protect its
> control. And that control especially includes the lives of the Working
> Class.
> How much we receive back as our share of the profits from our labor, the
> quality and affordability of our medical care, the safety we have in our
> streets, the privacy of our working class people from spying by the
> Oligarchy, the cost, always rising, of educating our children, the kinds of
> work our children can expect to secure, the safety of products and goods
> sold in our marketplaces, the cost of security in our old age, in other
> words,Our Quality of Life is totally controlled by that entity we know as,
> "The Government". But this fully owned political body is merely the front
> organization for the Oligarchy, freeing their greedy hands to do as they
> please. None of the major political parties will risk biting the hand that
> feeds them. Even Bernie Sanders, who took very little of the "tainted"
> money, could not have changed much in this "Safe Haven" of the Rich.
> It is past time for us to examine ways of changing our value system, so
> that
> money is no longer the bottom line. Quality of Life for All should be our
> new bottom line. By changing what we define as, "Success", we could turn
> the present Ruling Class into a very small Minority. If we turned their
> vast hordes of wealth into a liability, insisting that they spend down
> through heavy taxes, to rebuild our nation's infra structure, provide
> quality schools and free education, cover the increase of the living wage,
> and provide medical care for all, their life style would not change
> significantly, but ours would improve immensely. And before someone
> protests that this would amount to robbing the rich, remember, they became
> rich by taking most of the profits from our labor. Of course, since the
> Oligarchy owns both the House and the Senate, and controls the Supreme
> Court, and now the new president, we have only one choice. That choice is
> not a violent overthrow. Violent overthrows always end in disaster. We
> need to establish a priority list, rolling up our sleeves and preparing for
> hard work. We can change the consistency of this unfriendly government by
> supporting like-minded candidates at the ground level.
> By training ourselves to be involved, we will set a new standard. We will
> have a vested stake in a new government. Properly arranged, our
> involvement
> could take less time each week than we use to read wordy emails...like this
> one.
>
> Carl Jarvis
>
>
>
> On 11/19/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>> Dick, That's only because you don't like either. But I don't think
>> that all of the Democratic party are worthy of contempt, only the
>> corporate Democrats. I want to support the progressive wing of the
>> party. That's why I'm opposed to Schumer. He is like an old fashioned
>> Republican. Old fashioned Republicans cared about business interests,
>> but not about everyday people like my family and me. My father was a
>> factory worker.
>>
>> Miriam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org
>> [mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Richard
>> Driscoll
>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 10:12 PM
>> To: blind-democracy@freelists.org
>> Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible
>> Democratic Leader at the Worst Possible Time
>>
>> All:
>>
>> I voice an opinion to the effect that the election of Charles Schumer
>> to the Minority Leader of the Minority Democrat Party in the Senate
>> are truly worthy of each other.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>> On 11/18/2016 7:40 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
>>> And for some of those reasons, I voted for the Green Party candiddate
>>> for the US Senate in New York.
>>> Miriam
>>>
>>> Schwarz writes: "When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen.
>>> Chuck Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader
>>> - and therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in
>> America."
>>>
>>> Senator Chuck Schumer. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)
>>>
>>>
>>> Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the Worst
>>> Possible Time By Jon Schwarz, The Intercept
>>> 18 November 16
>>>
>>> When Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck
>>> Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader - and
>>> therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in America.
>>> That's a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer
>>> might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face
>>> for opposition to Donald Trump:
>>> . Schumer, who's just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went
>>> to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged:
>>> Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on the
>>> SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was elected
>>> to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at 29, and
>>> the U.S. Senate at 47. He's never had any adult job outside elected
> office.
>>>
>>> . He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary
>>> Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar
>>> Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two
>>> moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can
>>> repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
>>>
>>> . Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to
>>> intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions
>>> and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself
>>> and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the
>>> Glass-Steagall Act in
>>> 1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he
>>> slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission
>>> to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional
>>> efforts to crack down on rating agencies.
>>>
>>> . Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a
>>> bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.
>>>
>>> . Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its
>>> predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a
>>> Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the
>>> armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in
>>> the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said,
>>> "most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also
>>> defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims
>>> across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.
>>>
>>> . In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W.
>>> Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer
>>> warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological,
>>> chemical and nuclear weapons."
>>>
>>> . Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to
>>> enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.
>>>
>>> . Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first
>>> hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and
>>> then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer's seat when Schumer was
>>> running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.
>>> Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well . he did
>>> vote against NAFTA in 1993, and while he's supported other trade
>>> deals since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific
>>> Partnership.
>>> Also, he's a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to his
>> credit.
>>> And he's the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which you
>>> might see as good or bad, depending.
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>>>
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>>> e -time/ Chuck Schumer: The Worst Possible Democratic Leader at the
>>> Worst Possible Time By Jon Schwarz, The Intercept
>>> 18 November 16
>>> hen Barack Obama leaves the White House, New York Sen. Chuck
>>> Schumer will almost certainly be elected Senate minority leader - and
>>> therefore become the highest ranking Democratic official in America.
>>> That's a terrible roll of the dice for Democrats, because Schumer
>>> might as well have been grown in a lab to be exactly the wrong face
>>> for opposition to Donald Trump:
>>> . Schumer, who's just about to turn 66, grew up in Brooklyn and went
>>> to the same high school as Bernie Sanders. Then their lives diverged:
>>> Schumer, the smartiest of the smartypants, got a perfect score on the
>>> SATs and then went to Harvard and Harvard Law School. He was elected
>>> to the New York State Assembly at 23, the U.S. Congress at 29, and
>>> the U.S. Senate at 47. He's never had any adult job outside elected
> office.
>>> . He possesses the same impressive political acumen as Hillary
>>> Clinton's 2016 campaign, sagely explaining "For every blue-collar
>>> Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two
>>> moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can
>>> repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin."
>>>
>>> . Schumer's done more than anyone except Bill and Hillary Clinton to
>>> intertwine Wall Street and the Democratic Party. He raises millions
>>> and millions of dollars from the finance industry, both for himself
>>> and for other Democrats. In return, he voted to repeal the
>>> Glass-Steagall Act in
>>> 1999 and voted to bail out Wall Street in 2008. In between, he
>>> slashed fees paid by banks to the Securities and Exchange Commission
>>> to pay for regulatory enforcement, and eviscerated congressional
>>> efforts to crack down on rating agencies.
>>> . Schumer has long been the Democrats' point man in efforts to craft a
>>> bipartisan deal to slash taxes on multinational corporations.
>>> . Schumer voted for the Patriot Act in 2001, and sponsored its
>>> predecessor, the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act of 1995. During a
>>> Senate hearing, Schumer explained that "it's easy to sit back in the
>>> armchair and say that torture can never be used. But when you're in
>>> the foxhole, it's a very different deal." In certain cases, he said,
>>> "most senators" would say "do what you have to do." Schumer also
>>> defended the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims
>>> across the region, which Trump has cited as a national model.
>>> . In October 2002, Schumer voted for the Iraq War by giving George W.
>>> Bush authority to invade. In a speech explaining his vote, Schumer
>>> warned of Iraq's imaginary yet "vigorous pursuit of biological,
>>> chemical and nuclear weapons."
>>>
>>> . Schumer voted against Barack Obama's deal to limit Iran's ability to
>>> enrich uranium and potentially develop a nuclear weapons program.
>>> . Perhaps worst of all, Schumer gave Anthony Weiner his start, first
>>> hiring him on his staff, then encouraging him to run for office and
>>> then endorsing Weiner in the race for Schumer's seat when Schumer was
>>> running for the Senate in 1998. Thanks, Chuck.
>>> Are there any positive things about Chuck Schumer? Well . he did vote
>>> against NAFTA in 1993, and while he's supported other trade deals
>>> since, he made negative noises about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
>>> Also, he's a talented matchmaker with as many as 11 marriages to his
>> credit.
>>> And he's the second cousin once removed of Amy Schumer, which you
>>> might see as good or bad, depending.
>>> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>>> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
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