Your congressman is scheduled to be in Cleveland in mid-March for an Americans for Democratic Action swankenda. I've been invited,but, I can't get real excited about Congressman Nadler for obvious reasons. Not that I've got anything against fat people. Some of my best friends are fat persons! And I don't like to make fun of fat people because maybe they have some kind of glandular problem. Besides I might get fat someday too. Currently I'm around 200 lbs. which is ok, I guess for 6'1".
Which AFL-CIO is congressman Nadler talking about. The AFL-CIO around and under LBO world headquarters? The New York state AFL-CIO? The one in Washington?
I'd be more than willing to send Congressman Nadler your analysis of Social Security!
Btw, if your talking to Jerry, I'm all for Sherrod being our next US Senator from Ohio. And we do have a number of excellent potential candidates who could take his place in Congress if he moves up.
Your email pal,
Tom L.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> All you rationalists who believe fantasy has no place in politics:
>
> "'The AFL-CIO has had polling done, and they've convinced the unions and
> convinced me that the rightwing propaganda has been so successful, if you
> say there's no [forthcoming Social Security] crisis, people won't listen to
> you,' says Representative Jerry Nadler, a progressive Democrat from New
> York [from the neighborhood housing LBO world HQ, in fact], who supports
> the president's Social Security plan.
> Does that mean the Democrats are backing a plan to fix a problem that
> doesn't exist?
> 'That's exactly right,' Nadler says. 'The problem is illusory, but you
> have to act as if it's real.'"
> - Ruth Conniff, "Will Democrats Abandon Social Security," The Progressive,
> March 1999
>
> The March Progressive also contains a painfully dumb article on
> "postmodernism" by Barbara Ehrenreich.
>
> Doug