“Why don’t liberals just get jobs”
This lie has been spread since Reagan’s racist “Welfare queens” comment.
It has about as much truth as Haitians eating pets.
Six months after 1-6, a man told me that it couldn’t have been conservatives rioting. “They all have jobs. It’s the liberals that don’t have jobs.”
But lies aren’t harmless. They cause untold suffering and pain.
It was the lies about immigrants that inflicted brutal, untrained thugs with military weapons on our civilians.
And it was the lies about “welfare queens” and “lazy libs” that is causing our economic collapse.
We fight the lies, then we build a better Minnesota.
I’ve been in human resources and management for most of my life. I have never met these “lazy liberals”. Almost everyone I meet is desperate to work, eager to earn enough to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.
No one ever wants to spend a day in the unemployment office. They aren’t there because they are lazy. They are there because they are desperate.
And it is also true that people get discouraged – they have to work two or three jobs to keep healthcare, or get the medicine they need, or afford gasoline or daycare. And they watch as the companies they slave for get richer and richer.
The solution is NOT to starve people into compliance. The solution is to create healthy environments where humans thrive, have time to take a weekend off, can afford to go out for dinner every once in a while, and keep a roof over their heads without fear.
I propose:
Universal healthcare. If billions aren’t lining the pockets of the insurance companies and health conglomerates, it can go back into labor, saving money for everyone.
Free childcare for working families. The biggest hindrance I see, especially for women, is the cost of childcare. We can fix that and both business and workers can focus on other things knowing that the children are cared for.
Mandatory paid days to care for sick children. You shouldn’t have to lose your job when your child gets sick.
We can create a far better Minnesota for everyone, but it will take courage to go up against the billionaires who won’t give up without a fight.
Sam Powell for Senate 