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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Manchin is so slick, he is silly. Paying people a living wage, providing health care, education, and childcare for working low-wage mothers is not “entitlement.” It’s justice. It’s promoting the general welfare. It’s acting like Jesus.

And how much time does Manchin want? How about as much time as it took for him to block living wages—about five minutes?

I wish reporters would push him and expose the faces and livelihoods that would be hurt by his cuts.
Stop talking about $3.7 trillion or $2 trillion. $3.7T over 10 years is not a large number at all. What is huge is the number of Americans who will be hurt even more after being devastated already by COVID.
The $3.7 trillion is not a “give away.” It’s an investment and will bring great dividends to the GDP—Gross Development Possibilities of the people, especially the low-wage earning, working people of our nation!

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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Profile picture
6 Oct
I wish someone would tell this brother the truth about the Freedom To Vote Act that Manchin is trying to push: All of the good parts are from John Lewis. The bad parts that we have to amend are from the Republican voter suppressionists.

Secondly, Manchin hasn’t done a thing, because he won’t end the filibuster to pass it.

And he’s blocking the Build Back Better plan in ways that are going to hurt Black people—your congregants—& other poor & low-wealth people around the country but especially in West Virginia.
Black preachers, don’t let this man use you. He’s been meeting with you, lying to you. Ask him to meet you with people in the room who know policy. I bet he won’t do it.

West Virginia preachers, don’t be fooled and don’t sell your birthright.
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5 Oct
So here is Manchin’s logic: Don’t default on national debt, but then as a nation default on voting rights, health care, living wages, etc. His logic is so wrapped in his love of money and commitment to his corporate and financial interests.

cnn.com/2021/10/04/pol…
Manchin had one moment in history to scheme & scam as much as he could for his donors & for himself, and in some sick distorted way, he seems to enjoy being the senator from the poor & small state who looks out only for himself and not for the people he is supposed to represent.
This is why we can’t let up, and if Manchin is successful in doing this, we must organize to add at least two Democrats to the Senate & hold the majority in the House. This can be done if Dems talk to & seek to love the 65 million poor & low-wealth eligible voters in this nation.
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1 Oct
Living wages are not an “entitlement.” Housing & health care are not “entitlements.” Taking care of climate is not “entitlement.” These are all human rights.

.@Sen_JoeManchin, You claim to be a person of faith. Have you ever even read your Bible? Have you read the Constitution? Promoting the general welfare is not an “entitlement.” Establishing justice is not an “entitlement.”
That entitlement language is from the racist southern strategy. You seem to believe in entitlement as long as it’s for corporations, the greedy rich, your friends, and your own pockets.
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29 Sep
In June 2020, 2.7 million people tuned in to our Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers Assembly. Next year, we will invite all of them to join us on June 18 in person to Washington, DC.
The struggle to just take a step in the right direction with the Build Back Better Plan, & the failure to take a step toward a living wage to lift poor & low-wealth “essential” workers are signs we must mobilize & make them hear us!
Democrats’ & Republicans’ lives depend on it. Communities depend on it. Political games & catering to corporate interests cost the lives of 700 people who die every day from poverty.
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27 Sep
I agree w/ @JulianCastro: “The continued use of Title 42 is a glaring failure by this administration. Its continued use will not only hurt people who are seeking a better life, but risks the collapse of the Democratic coalition that elected Joe Biden.” But here is my concern:
Why wasn’t there the same outrage when the commitment to $15/hr minimum wage was abandoned and left 40% of Black workers & 32 million total Americans in poverty & low-wealth, which is a brutal former of existence that whips and beats people down but without cameras watching?
The same with healthcare and police reform. There should be outrage, but too much of this Washington outrage only comes when something is captured on camera that jars our sensibilities.
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23 Sep
While we are waiting for a response from the White House, please pray for me. As a representative from the #PoorPeoplesCampaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, I’ve been invited by the Vatican to join other moral religious leaders at a poverty-focused conference,
hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences on October 3-4. I am honored to be delivering a talk on “Coalition-building and bridging religious communities for poverty mitigation.”

pass.va/content/scienz…
In his most recent encyclical, @Pontifex wrote that the “magic theories” of market capitalism, trickle-down economics, and neo-liberalism have failed and that the world needs a new type of politics that “promotes dialogue and solidarity and rejects war at all costs.”
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