[PEN-L:9522] RE: Re: Social Security quote?

[sawicky@xxxxxxxxxx (Max Sawicky)]

>>
Nadler - who was rated by Roll Call a few years ago as the second
most left-wing member of Congress, after Maxine Waters, and who's
also probably one of the smarter members of that esteemed body - is
drawing on polls and focus groups done by the AFL-CIO. They found
that people are so convinced of the crisis that you lose all
credibility trying to argue to the contrary.
Doug
>>

The kernal of truth in this is that lobbying Members of
Congress is not very constructive.  Conditions on the
ground -- what the public thinks, and how they are
organized to press their views -- have to change.
Hence the relevance of the Labor Party & New Party.

Paradoxically enough, from what I've seen, the position
of the ADA is to the left of the LP or NP on fiscal
policy, not so much because the latter have the wrong
view, but because they neglect the issue or talk
opportunistically about the SS Trust Fund being
"stolen."

mbs