Reply #5: small and medium sized businesses [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

republicans have done far too well convincing little mom and pop, and medium sized business, operations that Democrats will push policies that will hurt them ...

Democrats can talk about supporting "capitalism" and supporting programs and laws that will help stimulate these businesses ... they need to differentiate between commerce that benefits the country (jobs, services, innovation) and commerce that has so much power due to wealth and size that it hurts the country (anti-environmental lobbying, dangerous pharmaceuticals, price gouging, exporting jobs, etc) ...

that's the argument the Democratic Party has failed to win for more than 25 years ... it's killing us ... we don't need to be socialists and communists just because we want our largest corporations to stop abusing the American people ...

we cannot allow the unrestrained push for profits to corrupt our government's primary responsibility to act in the best interests of the country and its citizens ... fear of negative political labels should not make our Party hesitate to fight for economic justice ...