Can the Democrats promise jobs if they are put back into the majority?

[kentuck]

and keep the White House?

Would they promise to put people back to work? Should they pass a progressive WPA-type program to fix our roads and bridges and whatever else needs to be fixed. Give everybody a job. Every American that wants to work should have a job to go to. Work is honorable. It adds meaning to a lot of people's lives. It is better to be productive than not.

Or would they say that the Republicans are filibustering them? Would we have to go thru that ordeal again? Or could the Senate change the rules on filibustering immediately if the House goes Democratic and the President wins re-election? Would that be a possibility?

Since these are American jobs, and since the Fed already has printed about $16 trillion dollars for foreign banks, the least they could do is print enough money to put our people back to work. Also, since they sent millions of jobs overseas with their short-sighted legislation, the least they could would be to put our people back to work, don't you think?

[RC]

1. Not with the current administration.

For that to happen int he next election cycle, Obama needs to be Primaried.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. They can promise anything. The question is, will they try to fulfill their promises? nt

[Lasher]

3. Who would believe them, with Obama pimping more free trade agreements right now?

Well I guess there are those who believe free trade agreements and most-favored-nation status for China have been good for US jobs but I'm not one of them.

[elocs]

4. What do promises mean?

:shrug:

[Romulox]

5. Yes. In Korea. nt

[Bluebear]

6. Yes, but with this administration the jobs will be in South Korea

[Claudia Jones]

7. it is too late

It is too late, kentuck. The high water mark was '06-'08. The public had (finally!) rejected Reaganomics and the Religious Right, and there was a tidal wave in the Democrats favor. Hundreds of rural counties throughout the Midwest were in play for the first time in decades, and Democrats were winning everywhere. Party leadership, especially in the WH, set about reviving the Republicans and bringing them back from the grave. Did you notice how so many Democrats (not the everyday people who voted Democratic, but all of the politicians, staffers, media liberals, progressive talk show hosts, etc.) seemed relieved after the '10 mid-term elections? The threat of the Republican menace must be kept alive in order to silence the left (we all need to pull together now to fight Palin!!!) and keep the everyday people down and confused and in order to have an excuse for not helping the working class people (we would do something, but the Republicans won't let us!!!).

The people who now control the Democratic party side with management, not Labor, in all things and in all ways. They fear management more than they fear us, and management pays them, and pays them handsomely.

[blindpig]

8. You bank on politician's promises?

After the election of 2008?

I got dis bridge.....

[Bandit]

9. They seem to have no problem making promises

Ending Gitmo....ending the "war".....ending Bush* tax cuts.....bring down health care costs.....well good intentions and all that....:shrug:

[Selatius]

10. Absolutely not. If we simply elect right wing Democrats, no reform is possible.

To win conservative working class districts, we may have to run socially conservative Democrats but who are very pro-working class in these areas. I'm talking about running old school populists.

[Fumesucker]

11. I don't know if you fell off the turnip truck or not..

But I do know it wasn't yesterday..

Of course the Democrats can promise jobs.

And that is connected to them actually delivering jobs how?