This means good worthwhile jobs for good pay, available to all Americans with the ability to do them. There is much work to be done in America, mostly in conversion to a Green economy, as well as wholesale rebuilding of our infrastructure.
Include education and more comprehensive social and medical services, especially to an aging population. This creates wealth and good jobs at the same time. And, because it is future-oriented and will not provide a profit in the short term, most of it must be sponsored or subsidized by the federal government. We can bring back manufacturing jobs to America, even if it means that people may have to pay more for consumer goods. Democrats fully support Unions and the work they do to bring fairness, safety and security to working Americans, and we will try to remove the roadblocks and corporate intimidation that has eroded membership for decades. Democrats will never engage in “Union-Busting” as an ideology. As we look at the prospect of wage cuts across the economy, we must remember the situation of the Great Depression, when such action only made the economic conditions worse.