What’s up now that Supreme Court confirmations are radio active? How do you feel about American intervention in Syria? What’s on your mind today?
What’s up now that Supreme Court confirmations are radio active? How do you feel about American intervention in Syria? What’s on your mind today?
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With Congress now on recess in the midst of budget concerns, we need to look at the progressive legislation recently introduced for consideration.
Elizabeth Warren has co-sponsored a bill for reinstating the Glass-Steagall banking measures (http://thehill.com/policy/finance/247093-warren-mccain-introduce-bill-to-bring-back-glass-steagall). With all the unproductive speculation now happening, please notify your member of Congress to tell them we need this bill to pass.
A bill to expand Social Security was introduced, co-sponsored by 156 of the 193 House Democrats–staying true to his Third Way pedigree, Ron Kind chose not to. (https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/04/05/these-156-lawmakers-support-expanding-not-cutting-social-security-does-yours).
The defeat of Trumpcare has opened the pathway toward providing Medicare for All, based on John Conyer’s H.B.676 bill (https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/29/crash-trumpcare-opens-door-full-medicare-all).
A new bill providing aid to college students has also been introduced (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/04/sanders-democratic-colleagues-introduce-new-free-college-bill).
Congress has appropriated some $1.15 trillion in discretionary spending for FY2018. So far, only $59 billion has been allotted for the Department of Education, dwarfed by the portion directed to military spending. The DOD alone gets an enormous share, $638.6 billion (55+% of discretionary spending), not counting the other agencies that support military operations (NSA, etc.), making the real military cost some $824 billion, more than 71% of the discretionary budget.
The bloated U.S. military budget is greater than those of the next ten largest-spending countries combined. This sad situation needs to change, for the sake of us all.