A government that does not promote a strong, just and fair economy for the American people is not doing its job @corydig

SUSAN S. PASTIN FOR BUZZFLASH

Programs such as Social Security and Medicare built the American middle class – and solutions such as health care reform, banking reform, consumer protection, and freeing our politics from the stranglehold of big money that will save us now.

Instead of tearing down our country, we ought to be building it up.

We should rebuild our manufacturing base, based on clean energy, high-speed trains, bio-medical research, and other 21st century endeavors.  We should promote research and development.  We should promote small business and American innovation.

We must rebuild our infrastructure – not just our roads and bridges, but our schools and homes which need to become energy-efficient.  We should end our addiction to oil and gas as soon as we can, with clean solar and wind energy.  

We need health care reform now.   Having to stay in a bad job because you, your spouse or your kid needs medical care is a modern day form of slavery, not freedom!  

We need to promote lending by small and large banks – and break up the so-called "too big to fail" banks.  We need a real Consumer Financial Productions Protection Agency.  We need real, not fake, reform.

The American Dream is under attack.  And this is the fight of our generation.  It is a fight Americans have been fighting since our Revolution – a fight to make equal opportunity a reality, not an empty slogan.

rest at http://blog.buzzflash.com/contributors/3040