Warren Pitches 'Accountable Capitalism' to Union Voters

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Elizabeth Warren asked union workers in Detroit on Sunday to embrace her sweeping progressive policy proposals, laying out her vision for “accountable capitalism” that has helped her rise to the top of the polls, where she now runs neck-and-neck with the longtime Democratic front-runner, Joe Biden.

“I’m tired of playing defense against the big money, I’m tired of playing defense against giant corporations that just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger,” Warren said at a forum hosted by the United Food and Commercial Workers, America’s largest private-sector union with 1.3 million members. “There’s a whole lot more of us than there is of them, and in a democracy that’s what ought to count.”

As she ticked off policy proposals, Warren emphasized her plans for a radical transformation of the economy -- a stance that differentiates her from Biden, who’s called for moderate, incremental changes. Warren said that’s not enough. Corporations “have loyalty to exactly one thing, and that is their own profits,” she said. “The idea that somehow we’re going to fight back every time against these is too far. What we need is big, structural change.”

Warren has put unions at the forefront of her presidential campaign, vowing to bring in a union leader as labor secretary and promising that a union representative would be present at trade negotiations.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-29/warren-pitches-accountable-capitalism-to-union-voters?srnd=politics-vp

[ritapria]

1. Yet another Warren campaign ad disguised as "Journalism"

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Someone got up

on the wrong side of the bed today.