Liberal Accomplishments

National Parks
Women's Suffrage 1920
Social Security 1935
Fluoridation of drinking water (a communist plot) 1940s)
Integration of public schools 1954
Interstate Highways
Clean Air Act 1955
Clean Water Act 1972
Civil Rights Act 1964
Equal Housing Act (Fair Housing) 1968
Social Security Medicare 1965
40 hour work week
Sick leave
Overtime
Minimum Wage
Roe vs Wade 1973

A Poem For Our Times, Hungry Child

Hungry child,

I didn't make this world for you.

You didn't buy any stock in my railroad.

You didn't invest in my corporation.

Where are your shares in standard oil?

I made the world for the rich

And the will-be-rich

And the have-always-been-rich.

Not for you,

Hungry child.*

-- Langston Hughes, “God to Hungry Child”

 A Poem For Our Times, or, in other words, Shame on Us.

Anti-Capitalist, or Anti-Corrupt Practices

Critics of the Occupy Wall Street movement often charge that the movement is anti-capitalist. I think this charge is unfounded.

OWS started because of the frustration so many have at today's economic conditions, and the certain knowledge that our politicians serve special interests not the voters who put them into office.

I see the OWS movement as an attempt to REFORM capitalism and to REFORM congress, not to overthrow either institution.

It is very important our leaders understand this difference and respond appropriately. In 15717 an insignificant German monk objected to the corruption and error of his church. His name was Martin Luther, and he sparked a movement known today as the Reformation, and the movement ultimately caused the Roman Catholic church to lose its secular power and greatly reduced its influence on Christendom.

Rep. Charles Rangel Makes Some Sense

I am no fan of his, but his post at Huffington said a lot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-charles-rangel/education-rangel_b_1029455.html