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    Steven Kelly
    Eatonville, WA
About this Petition Petition Letter

 

The Democratic Party has allowed the center of the political spectrum to move continually to the right. Polling shows Americans want to continue to support social programs, like Medicare, Medicaid, and social security, Americans believe, top tax rates are too low, defense spending is too high. The public believes the economic recovery and unemployment is more important than the deficit. We as Americans know there has been no shared sacrifice, the middle class is disappearing, and the working poor suffer cuts they cannot afford, while wealthy corporations reap record profits. In 2008 Americans said they wanted a new path, they said they wanted health care reform, not insurance regulations reform, they could not understand, that could be easily misrepresented by conservatives. Even a small public option, would have been better than complicated regulatory reform that may never be implemented. Americans wanted Wall Street to pay for their mistakes; we would have been okay bailing out the banks, if we had broken them up afterwards. TBTF banks are again setting record profits while the real economy suffers.

The definition of “fiscal conservatism” is to cut taxes and regulations on most powerful, and redistribute the wealth of the middle class to the wealthiest one percent of the population “Economic Darwinism.” Democratic candidates not only fail to stand with us they campaign as “fiscal Conservatives” it is the democratic party that has moved the center so far right that the radical right is now main stream. The Tea party stands on a failed ideology, but at least they stand for something, the democrats have not only failed us but seem to be proud of it. Democrats run for office as “fiscal conservatives,” rather than “fiscal progressives.”

 


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I stand with "fiscal progressives"

Greetings,

I vow to support “fiscal progressive” candidates in 2012. I will donate no money to the Democratic Party; i will instead support progressive candidates, by donations to progressive organizations. I will support no candidate that runs as a “fiscal conservative.”

The base on the left has stood still too long, the president and the democratic party has once again allowed the center to move to the right, against the will of the people. 80% of the American public wanted to increase taxes on the wealthiest citizens to balance the budget; instead, we got complete austerity, and no shared sacrifice. Even worse is that now democrats seem to be bragging about the horrible budget compromise, cuts that will hurt working families slow the recovery and increase unemployment.

Citizens across the country have rallied to send this message, last Friday 12,000 citizens rallied in the capitol of Washington State, rallies were held across the country, and still the Democratic Party did not hear our message. It does no good to continue to support a party that does not support us. It is time to challenge any democrat that claims to be a “fiscal conservative.” Fiscal conservatism is akin to economic Darwinism and must be stopped, conservatives now want to cut taxes on the wealthy by another 29% this would be the lowest top tax rate since Hoover cut taxes during a major recession and caused the great depression they also want to end Medicare, as we know it, along with cutting social security benefits. The way democrats have negotiated these things will happen if we do not elect real progressives willing to make a stand. We as progressives have supported democrats not because they support us but because we fear radical conservatives, but they have won every battle, democrats failed to pass a public option, failed to break up the TBTF banks, extended the Bush tax cuts. the " regulatory" reforms, you can’t call what passed health care reform, or banking reform, that have passed are now being defended by conservatives without funding reforms cannot be implemented,

If the public option was the only thing that passed even without other reforms it would have over time become the single payer system the country truly needs, case in point social security, when it originally passed it was a very limited program. History tells us that social programs expand, and are hard to repeal, regulatory reforms on the other hand are easily killed or diluted out of existence.
If democrats will not stand with us, we will be better of losing a few seats in order to have a stronger progressive caucus that is willing to take a stand, look how well it has worked for the tea party.
I cannot in all good conscience stand with the democratic party, if they continue to support the Economic Darwinist policies of fiscal conservatism. The Democratic Party has not only lost on policy, it has lost its message. progressivism is about real solutions, using real facts, real economic data, to ascertain real policy, it is an ideology of truth, if you have no choice but to take the best bad deal you can get, you cannot try to make it sound as if it is good policy, that is not progressive ideology, that is how a conservative does business.

If the democratic party cannot support progressive ideals i cannot support the democratic party.

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