Voices for Change

Signs of decline and decay are all around us, behind the glitter and the glitz. 

Republicans stole the seat from the president who was elected to fill it – and, more importantly, from the voters who elected him.

“We have a president who ran on a set of principles that he would not cut Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid, yet he is nominating someone whose views are very, very different.”

We are living in times of great strain, and worldwide opportunity. Huge numbers of people throughout the world want change; disappointingly, the election result in the UK was a victory for the status quo.

Our democracy’s Founding Fathers did not want a privileged aristocracy. Yet that’s the direction we’re going in. The tax on inherited wealth is one of the major bulwarks against it. That tax should be increased and strengthened.

If we can’t make the bosses pay more to their employees, the least we can do is make the them pay more into those workers’ Social Security fund. How to accomplish that? Just raise just the employer share of the payroll tax.

I believe that the level of fear, panic, and feelings of hopelessness would be far less if Cuomo were the president.

Rethugs corrupt politics as war,/ Sucker punching with doom, gloom and gore.

You want to measure economic success? Go to the kitchen tables of America.

For a guy who brags interminably about his self-evident genius — getting rich by building colossal, ritzy stuff— Trump’s historic significance is getting fully established: he is a uniter of odd bedfellows (against his excesses) and already the demolisher-in-chief, whether of his party or campaign.