Let's make it great!

There have been 2 good things that have come out of the assault on healthcare that began January 20th.
First and foremost, the activism of millions of activists who pushed back against several plans that would have stripped healthcare access from up to 30 million Americans.
Second, the same people pushing repeal and replace, also want to “reform” the tax code, and they were too busy with one horrible piece of legislation to begin work on the second.

Now that they know that even their own supporters think taking healthcare from 30 million Americans is a bad thing, they have decided to leave the dismantling of healthcare up to the president by bankrupting the system through the very process he so, so often criticized President Obama for, executive action.
This gives them time to turn to “tax reform.”
They passed a bill in the senate this week that paves the way for their plan to decrease taxes for the top 1%, increase taxes for working families, and raise the deficits a trillion dollars to do it.
Remember when deficient were considered a problem?
Welcome to the Republican Party of 2017.

Back home in the state of Connecticut, so called moderate democrats voted for and passed a republican budget (also not balanced) that would have taxed teachers, bankrupted Hartford, cut vital services,  and raised taxes on working families,
It was vetoed.
Thank you governor.

Now they must come up with a compromise or our towns will be in a fiscal crisis.
The compromise will not be good.

Such a mess.
What are we to do.
First, as Jimmy says, remember this:
Elections have consequences.

Then remember that against incredible odds, we pushed back on repeal and replace.
We did that because we organized.

We must all be registered to vote.
We must all educate ourselves to vote wisely.
We must step up and run for office.
We must change the makeup of town councils, state legislatures, Congress, and the White House.
Or, we must live with the consequences.

It’s really up to us.

It is possible.
Angie, who became involved in East Hartford because of Bernie Sanders, is now on town boards.
Cindy, who was involved in Plainfield politics is becoming involved in AFT Connecticut’s Legislative Committee.
And across the state, 17 AFT CT members and many others from other unions and progressive organizations, are running for municipal office this year.

T Reed says this will be the last generation of the movement, or the greatest.

Let’s make it great!