[lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 32, Issue 8

Mark Rickling mrickling at gmail.com
Wed Aug 2 07:34:54 PDT 2006


On 8/2/06, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote:


> My biggest
> complaint about seiu in general and the local in particular is that we don't
> have as good of a plan for articulating and achieving the transformative
> vision as we do for winning the bread and butter. The gap between "a couple
> bucks an hour and healthcare" and workers' revolution is large, and
> seemingly larger now than ever before. In short, I assert our
> accomplishments on the short-term stuff, but the lack of a strategy past the
> medium-term.

I'd happily settle for a coherent medium-term plan to reform the healthcare industry, one that employs the term "single-payer" or "Medicare for all."



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