2016 Postmortem

We need a simple tirade that attracts the core of the average voters:

1. Affordable education
2. Social safety net
3. Labor Unions

The future for working people is to be employed in productive jobs. The 'smoke stack' industries did not go overseas; they went to automation. The next generation of good jobs is in inventing the machines that make products. Educated people invent new things.

The greatest asset is the collected brainpower of the population. Simply discarding the workers because there is a temporary rift in employment is resulting is the lost of what is going to pull us through this downturn. The Social Safety Net is more than holding tank for the down-and-out; it keeps people's head in the game until they get opportunity to play again.

Organized labor that protects the work force as a whole also protects industry. Corporations have crushed the unions and then whittled away the jobs because individual workers do not have the horsepower to oppose it. Healthy, functional labor unions working together to produce high quality goods are far more valuable to manufacturers that the disinterested foreign workforces working at below sustenance wages.