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UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong highlights this Politico article:
The former Pennsylvania senator recalled all the business owners who spoke at the Republican National Convention.
One after another, they talked about the business they had built. But not a singlenot a single factory worker went out there, Santorum told a few hundred conservative activists at an after-hours session of the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington. Not a single janitor, waitress or person who worked in that company! We didnt care about them. You know what? They built that company too! And we should have had them on that stage.
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When all you do is talk to people who are owners, talk to folks who are Type As who want to succeed economically, were talking to a very small group of people. No wonder they dont think we care about them. No wonder they dont think we understand them. Folks, if were going to win, you just need to think about who you talk to in your life .
Republicans must talk to the folks who are worried about the next paycheck. Our leaders dont accurately reflect who we are. They reflect the interest groups around here who are lobbying for an advantage. Everyone who is up here is wanting an edge for their company or their industry. Weve got to get away from that .
I wont go back and revisit why that was the case (that we didn't highlight the ACA) or who the better candidate was to do that, but suffice it to say the opportunity (to criticize the ACA) is going to present itself in the next year. Why are they not sounding the alarm? Why are we not getting ahead of this train?
WTF? This guy NOW wants Romney to care about the working folks? What?
DeLong comments:
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Of course there wouldn't be any factory workers at the RNC - even if there were any factory workers, period.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)The DNC was held in the state with the lowest union membership of all fifty.
So there is that.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Santorum is partially correct in that is part of the GOP's problem. There is, of course, also the matter of their war on women, gays, minorities, etc. However, people are too saavy to buy in to the GOP just paying lip service but not delivering the goods.
Freddie
(9,275 posts)Yes Ricky you are indeed correct--the vast majority of us are worker bees, not "job creators". And it seems like the majority of us worker bees realize that the deck is stacked against us, and that your party's policies will only make things worse. It's because we know business does not always play fair (because they don't have to) that we have labor laws, minimum wage, and a (bare minimum) safety net. The "free market" only works when labor and business have a level playing field.
safeinOhio
(32,744 posts)the party of low taxes and low wages. Everyone knows that.