America Doesn't Just Have One Deficit, And Bernie Sanders Wants To Address Seven Of Them (Demo)

Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to talk about the deficits. Yes, plural. The ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee says the next budget should address a series of deficits in investment in the American economy. Income inequality, lack of jobs and especially good jobs, poor infrastructure, bad trade deals, retirement insecurity, and a failure to invest in education—these are deficits that affect the entire American economy, dragging it down and slowing growth. That’s what Sanders wants to address:

At a time when this country has an obscene level of income and wealth inequality, we need a budget that ends the outrageous loopholes that exist and asks the wealthiest people and largest corporations to start paying their fair share of taxes.At a time when real unemployment remains much too high, we need a budget that creates millions of decent paying jobs.

At a time when our infrastructure is collapsing, we need a budget that rebuilds our crumbling roads, bridges, dams, levees, water systems, waste water plants, airports, and rail systems.

At a time when real median family income has declined by nearly $5,000 since 1999, and millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages, we need a budget that substantially increases wages for low and middle-income workers.

At a time when the United States is engaged in an extremely competitive global economy, we need the best educated workforce in the world and a budget that makes certain that every American can get a higher education without incurring debt.

At a time when we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world and when millions of seniors and disabled people are struggling to put food on the table, we need to strengthen Social Security and the safety net – not cut programs for the most vulnerable people in our country.

At a time when our trade deficit is much too high, we need a budget that demands that corporate America creates jobs in this country, and not in China and other low-wage countries.

Republicans, of course, are on board with none of this. Investing in the United States is not really their thing.

Senator Bernie Sanders, to his credit, daily posts memes about the deteriorating state of the economy, including numerous problem-defining articles such as this one in the Daily Koz. Yet, you virtually NEVER see Senator Sanders, a so-called progressive,  offering up any REAL solutions that would reverse income and wealth ownership inequality and put us on the path to inclusive prosperity, inclusive opportunity, and inclusive economic justice. It is always just the same old problem-defining writings and wealth redistributive proposals, which include greater tax extraction on those who already are in the wealthy ownership class; taxpayer-funded job creation, as in infrastructure rebuilding and expansion, but with no stipulation that the taxpayer-funded government contracts are ONLY awarded to employee-owned corporations; substantial minimum wage increases to “pacify” the vast majority of low-income wage slaves and which result in inflation;  expand the government safety net; etc. Such proposals make the citizenry more economically dependent rather than economically independent. Unbelievably, Senator Sanders and his staff supporters NEVER turn their brains on to realize that their own problem-defining writings suggest the inherently obvious solutions––that the reason the rich are rich and income and wealth inequality persists  is because the rich OWN wealth-creating, income-producing capital assets and the American majority do not to any significant degree, and because the system is rigged to empower the 1 percent to continually acquire more and more capital ownership, while the vast majority of Americans struggle daily, weekly, and monthly to earn wages to pay for basic necessities of living as individuals and as providers of families.

Senator Sanders should KNOW the solutions that will REALLY reform the system and abate further concentration of capital ownership, but when he does speak of solutions, he ONLY resorts to wealth redistributive policies and government expansion, which are the essence of socialism. Such proposals undermine our nation’s founding principles based on individual strength through private property capital ownership whereby citizens become empowered as owners to meet their own consumption needs and government becomes more dependent on economically independent citizens.

While I believe that Senator Sanders is one of our best hopes for progressive change, and while I criticize him for his shortcomings as the leader we need to reform the system, he needs to be bolder and advocate for broadened individual capital asset ownership, purposely and continuously as we together grow our nation’s economy, without taking anything from those who already own.

I have made it a practice to continuously comment on the postings and writings of Senator Sanders, always pointing to the obvious––if you want to solve income and wealth inequality then the system needs to be reformed to empower EVERY child, woman, and man to acquire wealth-creating, income-producing capital assets simultaneously with the growth of the economy, thereby creating new capital owners and “customers with money” to drive the growth of our future economy that can support general affluence for EVERY citizen.  It is the exponential disassociation of production and consumption that is the problem in the United States economy, and the reason that ordinary citizens must gain access to productive capital ownership to improve their economic well-being.

The HOW to achieve this objective is to support and implement the following:

Support the Agenda of The Just Third Way Movement at http://foreconomicjustice.org/?p=5797, http://www.cesj.org/resources/articles-index/the-just-third-way-basic-principles-of-economic-and-social-justice-by-norman-g-kurland/, http://www.cesj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jtw-graphicoverview-2013.pdf and http://www.cesj.org/resources/articles-index/the-just-third-way-a-new-vision-for-providing-hope-justice-and-economic-empowerment/.

Support Monetary Justice at http://capitalhomestead.org/page/monetary-justice

Support the Capital Homestead Act at http://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/capital-homestead-act-a-plan-for-getting-ownership-income-and-power-to-every-citizen/ and http://www.cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/capital-homestead-act-summary/. See http://cesj.org/learn/capital-homesteading/ and http://cesj.org/…/uploads/Free/capitalhomesteading-s.pdf.

Support the Unite America Party Platform, published by The Huffington Post at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-reber/platform-of-the-unite-ame_b_5474077.html as well as Nation Of Change at http://www.nationofchange.org/platform-unite-america-party-1402409962 and OpEd News at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Platform-of-the-Unite-Amer-by-Gary-Reber-Party-Leadership_Party-Platforms-DNC_Party-Platforms-GOP-RNC_Party-Politics-Democratic-140630-60.html.