Liberal Forum

solon » 03 Mar 2020 1:03 pm » wrote:

Misty » 03 Mar 2020 12:52 pm » wrote:I am also not a registered Democrat, but I will vote for the Democratic nominee in the general election, no matter who it is.
I will have to hold my nose really hard to vote for Bernie, but now that I live here in PA, every vote counts.
When I was living in NY, I could afford to write someone in.
That's not an option now.

I want to see REAL universal healthcare like the rest of the industrial world has. People should not DIE from being poor nor go bankrupt because of an illness.

solon » 03 Mar 2020 1:03 pm » wrote:I want to see a change in SS so it is a REAL pension. full disclosure I was not in SS I was in a private pension plan and now have a very comfortable retirement because of it.

solon » 03 Mar 2020 1:03 pm » wrote:People who struggled their entire lives to make ends meet on low wages should have a COMFORTABLE life when they retire.

solon » 03 Mar 2020 1:03 pm » wrote:I do its is great and I would like to see that for EVERYBODY. I am NOT an economic darwinist. I think making higher education free would pay for itself the way the GI Bill paid for itself creating the greatest middle class the world has ever seen.

solon » 03 Mar 2020 1:03 pm » wrote:Most other first world countries do this or something like it. Conservatives always SAY they love America but they SURE never want to invest in it or in AMERICANS I am tired of seeing EVERYTHING turned into a revenue stream for wealth and being told we have NO ALTERNATIVE to everything being a revenue stream for wealth.
I can boil down by political beliefs to TWO STATEMENTS
property doesn't have rights PEOPLE have rights and when there is a choice between people and property people MUST take precedence and
I never NEVER side with the powerful against the weak