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, Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren told the crowd at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night.
Warren is challenging Republican U.S. Senator Scott Brown in November's election. She is unopposed on the Democratic ballot in Thursday's primary election.
"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 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.
Sean Ward
9:10 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
I run a small business and I try to hire as many people as I can afford. When things got tough in late 2008 I first depleted all my own cash reserves to try to hold on to try to keep their jobs. When that ran out I reached out to our government and found that there was nothing they were really willing to do to protect these middle class jobs. When tax time rolled around that April they still had their hand out in a big way. The decent revenues for the first 8 months of 2008 were all they cared about. The fact that we had lost almost everything the first few months of 2009 was irrelevant to them.
Democrats don't actually want to help the middle class. They really just want our money for their own programs and agendas. If I had been given tax breaks in 2008 and the years since I would have used them to keep real middle class people employed. Instead the money disappears into the giant bottomless pit of government. Don't be fooled by Warren's platform. She still is only interested in taking money from the middle class to give to the poor so they can use it to pay the rich.