#Thread Below is a statement from Sarah Jaynes, a key advisor to the Winning Jobs Narrative project and the Executive Director of the Rural Democracy Initiative: 1/11 #RuralDemocracyInitiative
Voters in small cities and rural communities are working people, through and through. They believe in their communities and in this country, even when the country fails to prioritize them and rural economies struggle. 2/11 #RuralVoters#DemPriorities#WorkingAmerica
Some right wing leaders have tried to exploit the economic anxiety that many rural Americans justifiably feel.But the Biden Administration & current Congressional majority have taken action with the greatest investments in rural America in the last 50 years. 3/11 #DemPriorities
These policies will take time to implement, but they will begin to give rural people who have been long overlooked the tools and opportunities they need to build a good life. 4/11 #DemPriorities#RuralAmerica#InvestInAmerica
Like all working people, #ruralAmericans understand how important their work is to the success of our economy. And rural working people, from those who put in long hours on farms, to small businesses to rural health clinics, are proud of their work. 5/11 #DemPriorities
They see it as a way they contribute to their community and take care of their family. For too long, the right wing has dominated the narrative around work and found ways to drive wedges that are contrived for political gain & that we cannot allow to persist. 6/11 #RuralAmerica
Winning Jobs Narrative research shows that working people across race and geography, especially in rural America, fundamentally agree on key things that underlie a progressive economic agenda. 7/11 #RuralVoters#DemPriorities
#RuralVoters are sick and tired of policies that allow giant multinational corporations to run #familyfarmers out of business and pollute local communities. 8/11 #DemPriorities
And, beyond inflation and price gouging, #ruralAmericans believe that our government should play a role in lowering costs of everything from #healthcare to #energybills &that billionaires &giant corps should pay the taxes they owe in order to pay for that 11/11 #DemPriorities
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STATEMENT from #WhiteHouse PLEASE read!>>Congressional Republicans have laid out their mega MAGA trickle-down economic plan clearly. Their economic plan will raise costs and make inflation worse. Their five part plan includes:
1/24 #BlueIn22#RepublicansAreHarmfulToAmericans
“GOP wants to push to extend Trump tax cuts… Republican lawmakers gear up to push 2017 tax law after midterm elections, despite potential impact on inflation.” Washington Post 10/17/22 #RepublicansAreTheProblem#VoteBlueIn2022
New York Times reported on how oil and gas lobbyists are plotting with Republicans in Congress to keep costs high by repealing billions of dollars in consumer energy electrification incentives that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act. 2/7
In 2019,Time Magazine ran this story by Olivia B. Waxman on the origins,meaning & implications of fascism. If millions of Americans support the 21st century version of this movement, they should definitely understand it. #Fascists#TrumpCult 1/38
When Benito Mussolini debuted the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the precursor to his fascist party, on Mar. 23, 1919, in Milan, he wasn’t inventing the idea of violent authoritarianism. But he put a name on a new and terrible breed of it. #Fascism#TrumpCult 2/38
Under his leadership, squads of militants attacked,beat &killed fellow Italians;later, once he had become the authoritarian ruler of Italy,he oversaw brutality in Ethiopia,an alliance with Hitler & the persecution of Italy’s Jewish population and others, among other crimes. 3/38
Oops they’re doing it again. Republican members of Congress want to be seen as voting in lockstep with their party but they also want credit when the legislation crafted & passed by #Democrats pay huge dividends for their constituents. #WeSeeYou👀 1/20 #DemocratsDeliver
This article, from Jan. 20, 2022 By Steve Benen tells the story of the double-dealing, mealy-mouthed, two-faced, weaselly, yellow-bellied, two-timing, lying Republican swine. The article doesn’t use those words but draw your own conclusions. 2/20 msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/ncna…
“Around this time 12 years ago, as investments from Barack Obama's Recovery Act started reaching communities nationwide, Republicans who opposed the economic package started showing up at ribbon-cutting ceremonies.”3/20 #RepublicanHypocrisy
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), originally in the House as the INVEST in America Act (H.R. 3684), is a US federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. #DemHistory#WhyIVoteDem
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), provisions:
•110 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects;
•$11 billion in transportation safety programs;
•$39 billion in transit modernization and improved accessibility..#DemHistory#WhyIVoteDem
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA):
•$66 billion in rail;
•$7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle chargers;
•$73 billion in power infrastructure and clean energy transmission and
•$65 billion for broadband development. #DemHistory
The story of the #BuildBackBetter has yet to be written. Let’s examine the 50 Republican US Senators who are voting against lifting children out of poverty, education,elder care, affordable prescription drugs, child care & family leave? What does this mean for YOUR STATE?
#ALABAMA Sen. Richard Shelby is voting against the #ChildTaxCredit “The Center on Budget &Policy Priorities found making the program permanent would benefit 93% of #AL children,lift 162,000 #AL children above/closer to poverty line & benefit 480,000 #AL children under 17.
#ALABAMA Sen. Tommy Tuberville has offered you no solutions; he has admitted that he “wouldn’t have a clue” how to address the current pandemic and recently told people that $600 per week in federal unemployment benefits was just “too much.” al.com/news/2021/12/a…