Some of What Democrats Should Be Prepared To Do!

Democrats, we can not claim to represent working folks of the USA when the federal minimum wage, of $7.25 per hour, approaches 20 years in place. A living wage in the USA is at least $25 per hour.

Medicare For All/Single Payer would catch the USA up to what all the other OECD  (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental organisation with 38 members) countries already have: they get better results, for nearly everybody, for far less cost.

Similarly, the definition of what had been pensions changed from ‘defined benefits’ to ‘defined contribution’ programs like the 401k. We need to bring back defined benefit pensions for all working people.

The Social Security trust fund is facing bankruptcy, because the tax that pays for it only applies to around the first $160,000 of an employee’s annual income, even as folks who’ve made over $400,000 per year, who have not saved sufficiently well enough for retirement, have a need for their Social Security benefits.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. 

If the Democrats regain control of government, from local to national, there’s a need to be ready to resume boosting the  US economy.

Solar panels on flat roofs, south facing roofs, wind turbines and agrivoltaics attached to batteries and microgrids;

Condensation of atmospheric humidity to water, collected for distribution via pipelines, and/or deposited directly into crushed stone filled trenches, that direct water towards aquifers, reducing water evaporating right back into humidity;

Solar powered desalinization facilities, mounted on barges that can go as far inland as saltwater flows. Collect, distribute and/or deposit water into the aforementioned trenches.

There are multiple precautions that should be considered, because if climate change causes sea levels to rise 20 feet (especially if this happens in this century) multiple millions of Americans, and around a billion people worldwide, will be flooded out of their homes, workplaces and neighborhoods. 

There is not sufficient room for said displaced folks to just move to higher ground.

We must be ready to build, install and operate these facilities in these United States of America if we retake control of our government. This must happen even as we begin the re-installation of democracy in the USA.

First and foremost: register and VOTE!