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In reply to the discussion: Bernie [View all]W_HAMILTON
(9,483 posts)29. Indeed you did miss it.
Democrats have been for universal healthcare for some time now, which doesn't have to just be achieved through Medicare for All.
As for your other issues, from the 2024 Democratic Party platform:
paid family leave
From Day One, President Biden has pushed to do more. He fought to include a
comprehensive paid leave program in legislation that ultimately became the Inflation
Reduction Act. He instructed federal agencies to expand access to paid and unpaid leave for
federal employees. He expanded the Military Parental Leave Program, so all active-duty,
new-parent servicemembers can take 12 weeks. And his budget includes the strongest paid
leave proposals in history, permanently funding the national paid leave plan that America
needs.
That plan will create Americas first, full, national paid family and medical leave program,
guaranteeing every American worker up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child
or loved one to recover from an illness, in cases of domestic violence, or military
deployment. It will help families care for one another, and it will help businesses retain
valuable talent and small businesses to compete. Millions more parents will be able to work,
and it will add hundreds of billions to our economy. Democrats have pushed for this for
decades. Its past time that America caught up with the rest of the world.
comprehensive paid leave program in legislation that ultimately became the Inflation
Reduction Act. He instructed federal agencies to expand access to paid and unpaid leave for
federal employees. He expanded the Military Parental Leave Program, so all active-duty,
new-parent servicemembers can take 12 weeks. And his budget includes the strongest paid
leave proposals in history, permanently funding the national paid leave plan that America
needs.
That plan will create Americas first, full, national paid family and medical leave program,
guaranteeing every American worker up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child
or loved one to recover from an illness, in cases of domestic violence, or military
deployment. It will help families care for one another, and it will help businesses retain
valuable talent and small businesses to compete. Millions more parents will be able to work,
and it will add hundreds of billions to our economy. Democrats have pushed for this for
decades. Its past time that America caught up with the rest of the world.
affordable college
The Administration is expanding job training partnerships that connect high schools, local
businesses, and labor unions to prepare students for good jobs in high-skill, high-wage, and
in-demand industries. Itll make trade school and community college free for every
American. And its making record investments in registered apprenticeships which already
train more than one million Americans a year across industries, including cutting-edge
industries. Some 90 percent of them stay on as full hires, earning an average starting salary
of $80,000 a year. Thats a path to the middle class that families can count on.
A majority of college students graduate with student debt. It can be an overwhelming stress,
as snowballing interest follows folks for decades, defining the choices they make and the
jobs they take, and holding back our entire economy. Although Republican appointees on
the Supreme Court blocked the President's initial student debt relief plan for 40 million
borrowers, he has not stopped using every available tool to provide relief. His Administration
already approved the cancellation of $167 billion in loans for nearly 5 million borrowers,
including nearly a million public servants like teachers, nurses, and police; and it has outlined
plans to deliver relief to 30 million borrowers in all. Meanwhile, its new SAVE plan is the most
affordable student-loan repayment plan in history, helping 8 million Americans including
more than 4.5 million who now have a $0 monthly payment. These savings will transform
lives, freeing people to buy a house, to start a family, or to launch a business with new hope.
For young people just heading to college now, weve already secured the largest increase in
Pell Grants in a decade, and well further expand these grants to 7 million more students, and
double the maximum award by 2029. Weve invested a record $16 billion in Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); and were working to subsidize tuition at all Minority
Serving Institutions for anyone whose family earns less than $125,000 a year.
businesses, and labor unions to prepare students for good jobs in high-skill, high-wage, and
in-demand industries. Itll make trade school and community college free for every
American. And its making record investments in registered apprenticeships which already
train more than one million Americans a year across industries, including cutting-edge
industries. Some 90 percent of them stay on as full hires, earning an average starting salary
of $80,000 a year. Thats a path to the middle class that families can count on.
A majority of college students graduate with student debt. It can be an overwhelming stress,
as snowballing interest follows folks for decades, defining the choices they make and the
jobs they take, and holding back our entire economy. Although Republican appointees on
the Supreme Court blocked the President's initial student debt relief plan for 40 million
borrowers, he has not stopped using every available tool to provide relief. His Administration
already approved the cancellation of $167 billion in loans for nearly 5 million borrowers,
including nearly a million public servants like teachers, nurses, and police; and it has outlined
plans to deliver relief to 30 million borrowers in all. Meanwhile, its new SAVE plan is the most
affordable student-loan repayment plan in history, helping 8 million Americans including
more than 4.5 million who now have a $0 monthly payment. These savings will transform
lives, freeing people to buy a house, to start a family, or to launch a business with new hope.
For young people just heading to college now, weve already secured the largest increase in
Pell Grants in a decade, and well further expand these grants to 7 million more students, and
double the maximum award by 2029. Weve invested a record $16 billion in Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs); and were working to subsidize tuition at all Minority
Serving Institutions for anyone whose family earns less than $125,000 a year.
Taken from: https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf
Sorry you got duped by Republican, Russian, and anti-Democratic rightwing enablers like Jill Stein into thinking that Democrats weren't offering those things to begin with.
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Speaking of consultants, I wonder what Tad Devine is doing lately. (sarcasm)
lostincalifornia
Jul 5
#6
Excpt historically dems in general didnt/dont donate which drove the party to the right
Fullduplexxx
Jul 5
#10
This sort of bullshit is why we lost in 2016, 2024, and have such poor polling numbers now.
W_HAMILTON
Jul 5
#11
Hillary ran on """the most progressive platform in party history" -- Sanders's words, not mine.
W_HAMILTON
Jul 5
#20
I missed where both of them ran on medicare for all, paid family leave, and affordable college
biocube
Jul 5
#25
Democrats have been for universal insurance that's not the same as universal healthcare
questionseverything
Jul 5
#37
Please stop. Things like this only amplify the false "both-parties-are-the-same" rhetoric, and *
Oopsie Daisy
Jul 5
#17
The Democratic Party already is a multi-generational, multi-racial, working class party.
lapucelle
Jul 5
#24
Will Sanders shut down The Sanders Institute, his own family-founded consultant business?
W_HAMILTON
Jul 5
#23
More divisive rehtoric. Same misrepresentation that contributed to 2016. A week or so ago he was blaming
lostincalifornia
Jul 5
#35