I'm not going to tell everyone to stop fighting.

[ColbertWatcher]

The reason why the GOP can't compete with us is not because we are weakened by disagreements, but because we're diverse enough to be strengthened them.

We learn by our discussions.

That being said, may I take this moment to suggest something that we can do even as we disagree?

The Poverty Photo Project needs volunteers to document the damage caused by the GOP.

My latest update (May 15th) dropped like a rock. It didn't help that most of the names up for voting were already belonged to someone else's webpages.

Oh well, live and learn, right?

Anyway, please take pictures of the damage the GOP has caused your community with their Nordquist/Libertarian economic policies.

Don't upload them just yet, we'll figure out a name very soon.

[Muttocracy]

1. I just got my digital camera working again

And I'm keeping my eyes open!

Some things I have in mind might have been in bad shape pre-Bush, though.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. And the GOP has done nothing to fix them?

That would still make a good picture.

[Muttocracy]

4. well, that's true. NYgovmt has much blame to go round. In any case, it is the visual state of things

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Yup.

People tend to ignore what's been in front of their faces, especially if it's been there for a while.

It's time we remind them that it doesn't have to be that way.

[ZombieHorde]

3. K&R&nt

[NYC_SKP]

6. Chosing a title from the choices is hard, but I went with "Beyond Recession"

I like this suggested theme, though: "contrasting poverty with the obscene wealth".

I hope the Photo Project provides a chronological context.

This was long in the making, it goes well beyond the Bush years...

:toast:

[ColbertWatcher]

7. True, but the GOP offers no solutions.

They are anti-stimulus, but pro-bailout.

Anti-union, anti-worker, but pro-tax shelter and pro-shareholder/pro-investor class.

Worst of all, as a party, they're anti-single-payer. Although, if we do nothing to support it, we'll be remembered as anti-single-payer as well.

[NYC_SKP]

8. I'm convinced that victory lies in making this a class war (w/o violence)

And we really need a better congress, better democrats in congress or at least we need to pressure those we have.

Single-payer, pro-worker, all the things we want can be had if get it out there broadly enough, if we educate the voters.

How many, seriously, would not support raising the SS cap if they understood how few would be paying more?

How many would balk at major reform if they understood how dramatically the gap between rich and poor has grown?

We have the numbers, we are the majority (unless you happen to make a ton of money, and even then you may be an enlightened type).

[MADem]

9. Isn't a bailout simply a "targeted stimulus?" nt

[ColbertWatcher]

10. Sure, but I meant the way the GOP did it made it was less a stimulus and more of ...

... another subsidy in a long history of subsidies.

[MADem]

12. Well, I was being snarky, seeing as the GOP say they don't LIKE stimulus efforts...NT

[omega minimo]

11. .

:rofl:

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Thanks for the kick! n/t

[Wednesdays]

14. K&R

:kick: