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Warren at DNC: The System is Rigged Against the Middle Class

Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. What did you think of her speech?

 

The system is rigged against middle class families, and unchecked corporate greed will take us all down, according to Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night. 

"Each generation built something solid so that the next generation could build something better," she said. "But not for many years. Talk to the construction worker from Malden who went nine months without a job... Talk to the student in Worcester who worked hard to finish his degree and now he's drowning in debt...The system is rigged against them."

Warren, who took the stage just prior to former president Bill Clinton, said Mitt Romney's plan to lower the richest American's taxes would send the economy spiraling backwards. She called several times for Americans to band together to work for the next generation's benefit. 

Did you watch Warren's speech? Do you think she did enough to address the concerns Americans have about jobs and the economy today? Do you believe the playing field in America is rigged? Share your thoughts in the comments. 

Related Topics: DNC, Elizabeth Warren, Mitt Romney, and election 2012

slimjim66

7:25 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

Protesting peacefully in America , is now a crime in the United States . The Obama Adm. agrees with this Idea , that to Militarize our Police and Quash Protestors is the , 1st stage to a continued and accelerated , destruction of the Middle Class in The United States .

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slimjim66

7:40 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

Many in the Political field and many American Citizens are beginning to understand what Mrs. Warren is talking about , Its function and Name were built to destroy The United States , American citizens call it The Federal Reserve , makes money from thin air . lends the money out with INTEREST . NEW ZEALAND is now Debt free for incarcerating the real terrorist , The bankers , and Goldman sucks Employees of this Ponzi Scheme rigged against the Middle Class ..

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Leon

9:05 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

It is astonishing that a Harvard professor could be so breathtakingly naive....and wrong. The profound challenges facing the US middle class are largely because of globalization. Other countries are now able to compete with the US for the work of many of our people who do not have the skills and training needed. We are competing with harder working, better educated people who are happy to work for a lot less. Ms. Warren would have us believe the problem is corporate greed. The fact is that the US has the second highest level of corporate taxation in the world (Japan is #1and you can see how that is working for them.). US corporations are the ones who create the jobs the middle class. It is not wise to make this harder to do this. Also, please think about our education system. The Teacher's Union (a top contributors to the Democratic Party) has forced shorter school days, higher costs and often no way to deal with incompetent teachers, on our middle class families, while insisting that after working nine months per year, from 8 to 3PM, they must be able to retire with full benefits at age 55. If she really wants the US middle class to thrive, rather than tearing down the job creators, she should take on the Teacher's Union and the rootcauses of why our kids rank 17 th in the world in math, despite the fact that we spend more than any other country on education. Please ask Ms. Warren how willing she is to deal with the real problems.

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slimjim66

9:40 am on Saturday, September 8, 2012

Leon sounds Anti American , Comparing over paid C.E.O s to underpaid teachers . stay focused Leon , Wall street and Mitt Romney are in the business of Exporting American created jobs ,and Hiding Taxes overseas . Republicans and FOCUS ...

Leon

5:42 pm on Saturday, September 8, 2012

If your thinking is driven by how we would all like the world to be, Slim's perspective may make sense. Unfortunately, the realities are different. We need hold our passions in check for a few minutes to try to understand these issues. Then, we can deal with them. It is not un American to realize that much of the problem of the American middle class is that foreign workers can now compete with us when in the past they could not. That is the driver, not "corporate greed". The US is one of the only countries that tax companies on foreign earnings. For that reason the economic reality causes US companies keep billions overseas and use them to create foreign jobs when most of them would prefer to bring the $ back and invest here. We might not like that, but it is the reality. Also because the foreign tax rates are lower, investment returns are often better outside the US. This un intended consequence is one of the reasons for weak US job creation. Liz Warren wants to make this dumb policy even worse by further increasing taxes on corporations. This level of thinking is killing US middle class jobs. It is really frustrating and dumb. I wish people would stop and think and not lurch to the most convenient scapegoat.

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slimjim66

9:17 am on Sunday, September 9, 2012

Leon , quit trying so hard to sound like Paul Ryan on giving up on the American People , Taxes , job creation , cheap labor, better then Quality , Americans get it , Leon, Big Corporation , Americans Bow Down . The Reality is that Protestors , the 99% See the big Picture. GREED and Destruction of the POOR , New Zealand is free of this Dysfunctional Corruption called greed , New Zealand VOTED OUT CORRUPTION , American people with a pen can VOTE . Leon Corporations are not people as the 1% Anti Americans would like Americans to believe , VOTE and SHOCK the Corrupt system with change . 99% Americans trying to control the 1% ,

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slimjim66

9:31 am on Sunday, September 9, 2012

Elizabeth Warren is Correct , the system is rigged , against The United States of America it is called a Federal Reserve . Step 1 Money from thin air , Dollar equals Note , with interest from the banks that actually own this corrupt reserve . the system is rigged to cause this fallen economy . Corruption said enough times in 2012 sounds like . So !

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