Negotiation 101 for Dems: The Right Policies are the Right Politics

[Donnachaidh]

http://truthout.org/negotiation-101-dems-right-policies-are-right-politics/1301443200

Bloggers always wonder why Democrats couldn’t get anything done even when they had a solid majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate, while Republicans get everything they want even when they are in the minority. Take the current budget negotiations, for example.

A few weeks ago the Congress passed and the President signed yet another round of massive tax cuts for the wealthy, thereby greatly increasing the deficits. Now these same geniuses are engaged in cuts-only budget negotiations with military spending largely off the table.

What about the country and our people? Every poll shows that the public wantsthe same thing that economists say we need: increases in spending on the things that grow our economy, cuts in military and tax increases on the rich and big corporations (2/3 of which pay no taxes at all) -- the very items that are "off the table" in the budget negotiations!

The country needs and the people demand spending increases on the things government does for We, the People, tax increases on the wealthy and a massive downsizing of the huge, vast, stratospheric, unbelievable, shocking, nonsensical, terrifying, extreme, astonishing, gut-wrenching military budget, the biggest drag on our economy today. We spend more on military than every other country combined and our businesses and people and economy have to scrape to pay for that while our competitors do not.

More at the link --

[msongs]

1. to the barricades with the white flags - when you stand for nothing you cave every time nt

[DontTreadOnMe]

2. The answer is very simple

Both Dems and Rupugs are bought by lobbyists.

Thus "our" politicians vote for policies written by the lobbyists, and most of the time those policies don't match the majority of Americans.

Our government is broken.