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Old 11-20-2017, 05:30 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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Originally Posted by Mathguy View Post
In reality, neither party really does much for the America worker outside of empty rhetoric which you cited in believing Hillary's election promise lol....you really believe that?
Democrats recently tried to do the following things for American workers, but the republicans stopped all of these things from happening.

Democrats tried to raise the min wage, give the middle class tax cuts, give small businesses tax cuts, give small businesses lending aid, lower credit card interest rates, lower student loan interest rates, give workers longer unemployment benefits, and stop millions of Americans from loosing their homes from bank foreclosures.

GOP blocks minimum wage, sick leave proposals | TheHill
GOP Senators Reject Tax Cuts for Middle Class - CBS News
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.c5a8536e9275
Republicans Block Small Business Lending Bill - CBS News
Republicans Screw Over 37 Million by Blocking Bill Lowering Student Loan Interest Rates
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-blocks...c08#.7cpj539if
GOP Blocks Freeze On Credit Card Interest Rate Hikes | The Huffington Post
Republicans Block Unemployment Extension, Democrats Plan to Try Again (Updated)
Senate GOP blocks mortgage relief bill - CNN.com

Do you deny that democrats tried to do all the above things for American workers but were stopped by republicans?

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Both parties supported NAFTA....I know many people whose jobs were off-shored. Do you?
Washington is controlled by money. And democrats get substantial amounts of campaign money from worker unions, and democrats do favors for worker unions (and since worker unions are funded by American workers like teachers and plumbers, the democrats will do favors for American workers.)

Worker unions give democrats $100's of millions of dollars in campaign funds, do you believe people give other people $100's of millions of dollars for nothing?
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

Democrats also get substantial amounts of campaign money from do gooder billionaires like Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, and these billionaires want higher tax rates on the wealthy to pay down our deficits and they like doing charity work (so democrats try to raise wealthy peoples tax rates and do some charity work, and some of that charity work helps regular workers, like unemployment benefits and food stamps for workers who loose their jobs.)
Billionaire Warren Buffett Tells Congress To Raise Taxes On Wealthy - ABC News
https://mic.com/articles/42307/bill-...reduce-deficit


The republicans on the other hand get 100% of their large campaign contributions from large corporations and billionaires like the Koch brothers, and these billionaires want nothing more than to lower CEO tax rates and corporate deregulation. And everything republicans do will be for the benefit of large corporations and billionaire CEO's.
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/koch-brothers


Washington is all about the money. And you have pro-environmental groups giving democrats $100's of millions of dollars and oil corporations giving republicans $100's of millions of dollars.

Do you believe both parties will act the same?
Or are these groups giving politicians $100's of millions of dollars for nothing?

https://www.opensecrets.org/industri...e=2018&ind=Q11
https://www.opensecrets.org/industri...e=2018&ind=E01


But democrats also get massive amounts of campaign contributions from large corporations, and so you have Bill Clinton signing the free trade deal. But to say both political parties are the same is preposterous (just follow the $100's of millions of dollars in campaign funds each party receives, and then who gives it to them.)

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