Time to Stand Up for the Public SectorRobert Creamer - Political organizer, strategist and author
Posted: January 7, 2011 08:35 AM
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Progressives can no longer allow the radical right to define the concept of Government in the United States. It's time to proudly and forcefully stand up for the public sector.
The Progressive concept of government is rooted in the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Wall Street banks are not instituted to secure these rights -- neither are giant international corporations, nor private insurance companies, nor big oil conglomerates. Democratic governments are instituted to protect and advance those unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Government is the vehicle through which we assure that the notion that "all men are created equal" is realized in the real world because it is the only institution in society that represents all of us, where -- at least theoretically -- every American is equal and has equal power to shape society's goals.
Government is the place where democracy lives. It is, as Congressman Barney Frank says, the name we give for the things we choose to do together....
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