Without a concerted militant struggle by the working class for a Basic Income Guarantee, a Minimum Wage more in line with the actual cost of living, a needed increase in monthly Social Security checks and eliminating student debt- how will working class families get the things they are entitled to from the Biden-Harris Administration in order to get through, and survive, this mess we are in?
Judging from the looks of the choices Biden and Harris are making in choosing personnel for their coming Administration, this is turning out to be another Administration with little to no sympathy or empathy for working class families who are suffering more than anyone else.
As a class, the working class, we, along with our friends and allies who will also benefit from these very modest reforms, we propose, need to gear up to fight for what we are entitled to; or, once again, Wall Street billionaires are going to prevail as they get bailed out first while we suffer only to be told after the Wall Street billionaires are bailed out that there is no money to resolve our problems.
Make no mistake, we are entitled to this relief.
This is not unfounded speculation... Joe Biden has a clear track record of putting corporate interests before the needs of working class families in spite of his opportunist campaign rhetoric to the contrary.
We need to speak out forcefully:
People before profits!
We can’t dilly-dally and procrastinate in organizing thinking the Biden-Harris Administration- given time- is going to do anything for us after the way they are quickly, without consulting working people, bringing in a bunch of crooked and corrupt Wall Street merchants of death and destruction loyal only to the Military-Financial-Industrial Complex to run the country in cahoots with the politicians in Congress who have also proven their loyalty, time and again, to Wall Street.
We obviously will not get a seat at the table where decisions are made unless we vigorously demand a voice in the decision-making process.
Democracy requires the working class to have a voice in the decision-making process.
We have suffered four long years without any voice or input in the Trump Administration which enabled Wall Street to gorge itself feeding like a bunch of gluttonous pigs at the public trough all the while claiming “big government” should not intervene to help working class families through this economic crisis exacerbated by the corona virus pandemic; we can’t endure four more years of being beat down during this economic collapse and continued coronavirus pandemic by another Administration which campaigned for our votes claiming to be on the side of working people.
Working people need this immediate relief right now without delay... any delay will result in more needless suffering and misery.
Bail out workers, not Wall Street:
1. A Basic Income Guarantee of $2000.00 a month for every adult over 18 and $200.00 for each child in the family.
2. A $650.00 increase for everyone receiving Social Security.
3. Cancel ALL student debt.
4. Increase the Federal Minimum Wage to $16.00.
The money can come from a hefty tax on the rich, a tax on stock market transactions, Federal Stimulus Funds for public needs and a Peace Dividend.
We need to make our voices heard through concerted and organized action.
Sign and circulate out petition at the link below and don’t forget to validate your signature as requested in the e-mail you will receive to complete the signature process:
To those who say much more is needed in the way of reforms, we agree. We will work together with everyone struggling for peace, to defend public education, for real health care reform in the way of a National Public Health Care System, to stop foreclosures and evictions, for full employment legislation which requires the President and Congress to be responsible for attaining and maintaining full employment with real living wage jobs.
We will either have a country bent on an imperialist policy of militarism and wars or we will have a country dedicated to taking care of the needs of the people; we can’t have both.
Let’s pool our efforts and strengthen the working class in this struggle to get our families through this mess.
Together we will win.