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Be On The Winning Team

The people like to be winners, but don’t like being on a losing team. It’s this way in sports and also politics. At this time it is the Democrats against the cult of Trump and the whipped GOP. The Democrats are winning at this point in President Biden’s administration, but the Democrats must pass Biden’s spending plan. The $4 trillion spending package has two parts: $2.3 trillion for jobs infrastructure and $1.8 trillion for an American Family Plan, which would subsidize child and elder care. This is a big winner for the Democratic Team, and offered in other developed countries. Biden is listening to Senator Bernie Sanders and seems to have learned the lessons from the Democratic defeats due to people grown tired of being taken for granted by their corporate-run Democratic party that had lost its way with Bill Clinton at the helm. Now, the GOP, after four years of doing nothing for the American people, want a $568 billion plan, which will do nothing, but make the Democrats look like a losing team, which no one wants to belong to. We like winners. The Democratic Team wants voter rights law passed and stronger union protection bills passed, which, again, is a win for the people and the Democrats. Latest polling shows 70 percent of the people support the $4 trillion spending plan, so, naturally, the GOP is against this plan, which proves the GOP doesn’t care what is best for the people. Which team do you want to be on? All unions should also be supporting this bill that is pro-union jobs, and if you are a union member you already like being on a winning team. Trump’s cult are losers and are not your friends. Pick the winning side—the Democrats.

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