The current fight over the next stimulus bill will have far reaching ramifications. McConnell and his Republican mates would like to limit it to small business aid. Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Democrats, on the other hand, are resisting this narrow casting of the bill. They argue that it should include aid to working people as well as to cities and states that are on the front line of the pandemic and the economic crisis. We should support their efforts. We have tools to communicate to our legislators, friends, and media outlets.
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Sam Webb
I'm a long-time socialist and activist, but new to the blogging world. I hope to bring a different perspective on politics, sports, culture, and Marxism. Besides blogging, I also leave plenty of time for swimming, hiking, ESPN, music, reading, drinking good beer, and, not least, my family and friends. I wish I could play basketball, but my knees ruled out that possibility long ago.
While I currently reside in New York, my politically formative years were spent in Portland, Me. and Detroit during the 1970s and 1980s. I graduated from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (where I played basketball) and received a MA in economics from the University of Connecticut.
I was the national chairperson of the Communist Party, USA from 2000 until 2014 when I stepped down at the convention. In 2016 I resigned from the Communist Party two years later. We were no longer on the same page.
