Established in 1991, the Caucus members promote a strong, socialist / progressive agenda, what they call
"The progressive promise -
fairness for all."
THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS
All members are members of the Democratic Party or caucus with the Democratic Party. There are currently 81 total declared Progressives including 77 voting Representatives, two non-voting Delegates,
and one Senator.
The goal of socialism is to abolish private ownership of the means of production. The immediate task is to limit the capitalist class - so why is this tolerated in a
Captalist country?
Arizona
Ed Pastor (AZ-4, Phoenix)
Raúl Grijalva (AZ-7, Tucson) - Co-Chair
California
Lynn Woolsey
(CA-6, Santa Rosa)
George Miller
(CA-7, Richmond)
Barbara Lee (CA-9, Oakland)
Pete Stark (CA-13, Fremont)
Janice Hahn
(CA-36, San Pedro)
Michael Honda
(CA-15, San Jose)
Sam Farr (CA-17, Monterey)
Henry Waxman
(CA-30, Los Angeles)
Xavier Becerra
(CA-31, Los Angeles)
Judy Chu (CA-32, El Monte)
Karen Bass
(CA-33, Baldwin Hills)
Lucille Roybal-Allard
(CA-34, Los Angeles)
Maxine Waters
(CA-35, Inglewood)
Laura Richardson
(CA-37, Long Beach)
Linda Sánchez
(CA-39, Lakewood)
Bob Filner (CA-51, San Diego)
Colorado
Jared Polis (CO-02, Boulder)
Connecticut
Rosa DeLauro
(CT-3, New Haven)
Florida
Corrine Brown
(FL-3, Jacksonville)
Frederica Wilson
(FL-17, Miami)
Alcee Hastings
(FL-23, Fort Lauderdale)
Georgia
Hank Johnson
(GA-4, Lithonia)
John Lewis (GA-5, Atlanta)
Hawaii
Mazie Hirono (HI-2, Honolulu)
Illinois
Bobby Rush (IL-1, Chicago)
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2, Chicago Heights)
Luis Gutierrez (IL-4, Chicago)
Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago)
Indiana
André Carson
(IN-7, Indianapolis)
Iowa
Dave Loebsack
(IA-2, Cedar Rapids)
Maine
Chellie Pingree
(ME-1, North Haven)
Maryland
Donna Edwards
(MD-4, Fort Washington)
Elijah Cummings
(MD-7, Baltimore)
Massachusetts
John Olver (MA-1, Amherst)
Jim McGovern (MA-3, Worcester)
Barney Frank (MA-4, Newton)
John Tierney (MA-6, Salem)
Ed Markey (MA-7, Malden)
Mike Capuano (MA-8, Boston)
Michigan
John Conyers (MI-14, Detroit)
Minnesota
Keith Ellison
(MN-5, Minneapolis) - Co-Chair
Mississippi
Bennie Thompson
(MS-2, Bolton)
Missouri
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
(MO-1, St. Louis)
Emanuel Cleaver
(MO-5, Kansas City) - Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus
New Jersey
Frank Pallone
(NJ-06, Long Branch)
Donald Payne
(NJ-10, Newark)
New Mexico
Ben R. Luján
(NM-3, Santa Fe)
New York
Jerry Nadler
(NY-8, Manhattan)
Yvette Clarke
(NY-11, Brooklyn)
Nydia Velázquez
(NY-12, Brooklyn)
Carolyn Maloney
(NY-14, Manhattan)
Charles Rangel
(NY-15, Harlem)
José Serrano (NY-16, Bronx)
Maurice Hinchey
(NY-22, Saugerties)
Louise Slaughter
(NY-28, Rochester)
North Carolina
Mel Watt (NC-12, Charlotte)
Ohio
Marcy Kaptur (OH-9, Toledo)
Dennis Kucinich
(OH-10, Cleveland)
Marcia Fudge
(OH-11, Warrensville Heights)
Oregon
Earl Blumenauer
(OR-3, Portland)
Peter DeFazio
(OR-4, Eugene)
Pennsylvania
Bob Brady
(PA-1, Philadelphia)
Chaka Fattah
(PA-2, Philadelphia)
Rhode Island
David Cicilline
(RI-1, Providence)
Tennessee
Steve Cohen (TN-9, Memphis)
Texas
Sheila Jackson Lee
(TX-18, Houston)
Eddie Bernice Johnson
(TX-30, Dallas)
Vermont
Peter Welch (VT-At Large)
Virginia
Jim Moran (VA-8, Alexandria)
Washington
Jim McDermott (WA-7, Seattle)
Wisconsin
Tammy Baldwin
(WI-2, Madison)
Gwen Moore
(WI-4, Milwaukee)
Non-voting
Donna M. Christensen
(Virgin Islands)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)
Senate members
Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
THIS WAS READ BY THE SPEAKER
OF THE HOUSE
ON THE
FLOOR OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES -
JANUARY 10, 1963
45
COMMUNIST GOALS
If only they had listened . . .
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TEN PLANKS
OF THE
COMMUNIST
MANIFESTO
1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (1868), and various zoning, school & property taxes. Also the Bureau of Land Management.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Misapplication of the 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, 1913, The Social Security Act of 1936.; Joint House Resolution 192 of 1933; and various State "income" taxes. We call it "paying your fair share".
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
We call it Federal & State estate Tax (1916); or reformed Probate Laws, and limited inheritance via arbitrary inheritance tax statutes.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
We call in government seizures, tax liens, Public "law" 99-570 (1986); Executive order 11490, sections 1205, 2002 which gives private land to the Department of Urban Development; the imprisonment of "terrorists" and those who speak out or write against the "government" (1997 Crime/Terrorist Bill); or the IRS confiscation of property without due process.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We call it the Federal Reserve which is a credit/debt system nationally organized by the Federal Reserve act of 1913. All local banks are members of the Fed system, and are regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.
We call it the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated through the ICC act of 1887, the Commissions Act of 1934, The Interstate Commerce Commission established in 1938, The Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, and Executive orders 11490, 10999, as well as State mandated driver's licenses and Department of Transportation regulations.
7. Extention of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
We call it corporate capacity, The Desert Entry Act and The Department of Agriculture. As well as the Department of Commerce and Labor, Department of Interior, the Evironmental Protection Agency, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, and the IRS control of business through corporate regulations.
8. Equal liablity of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We call it the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. The National debt and inflation caused by the communal bank has caused the need for a two "income" family. Woman in the workplace since the 1920's, the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted Socialist Unions, affirmative action, the Fedral Public Works Program and of course Executive order 11000.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
We call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.
People are being taxed to support what we call 'public' schools, which train the young to work for the communal debt system. We also call it the Department of Education, the NEA and Outcome-Based "Education" .
'Abolish Capitalism'
A delightful defense of Capitalism from
Milton Friedman
and repudiation of the do-gooders -
One Nation Rally - Collectivism on Parade
Henry Oliner
Galt is the mysterious hero lurking in the background in Ayn Rand's infamous novel, Atlas Shrugged. He is the industrialist who went into hiding and led a strike of producers fed up with the physical and moral encroachment from a government of moral supremacists who rationalized theft with childish notions of fairness but no conception of the actual production of wealth. That synopsis should also explain why Atlas Shrugged, first published in 1957, is having a very strong resurgence in popularity.
I meet with two different groups of independent business owners focused in the southeast and their perception of current business conditions is almost unanimous. They are angry. They face conflicting and unclear regulations, and a near certainty of increasing taxes . They are impatient. Many are not profitable and are unable and unwilling to tolerate customers who cannot pay, employees who do not think, banks without judgment, and a government that despises their efforts to create wealth and jobs.
Unlike John Galt, they have not abandoned their factories and homes and headed to Colorado, but they have reduced expenses, laid off workers, and rejected growth because of the added risk. They have conserved cash because banks are not willing to lend and government is too willing to take.
Elected official have won their positions from the popular vote, but they have neglected the other votes.
We vote with our wallets. We do not want to buy what they want to sell. We will not invest if taxes on investment returns are too high. We will not start and expand businesses if you tax and regulate them into money losers.
We vote with our feet. We leave high tax states and moves to low tax states. Company close plants in unreceptive countries and move to receptive countries. We exit highly regulated industries and move capital into businesses with more certainty and flexibility.
But we also vote with our hearts. With government pay double that of the private sector, with a torrent of legislation killing small businesses, with crony capitalism replacing main street capitalism, and with an endless and clear stream of propaganda from the bully pulpit, the message is clear- the private sector is for suckers. Starting businesses, creating new products, jobs, and funding schools, hospitals and the arts are all good things and our government is making it increasingly harder to accomplish. This is why corporations are sitting on top of trillions of dollars in cash. Because of the insanity currently posing as legislation and policy, their hearts are not in it.
They have ‘gone Galt'. They have dropped out of the producer ranks, not totally like Ayn Rand's hero, but in parts. They work less, retire early, and conserve resources because they do not trust their government.
I found John Galt in the mirror and I found John Galts sharing their fears and frustrations around the tables at meeting rooms and restaurants. They are dropping out in whatever little ways they can.
I'll bet you found him too.
Henry Oliner
www.rebelyid.com
You will find the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto interesting.
They are in the right column of this page >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
In the early '60's during the days of the "former" Soviet Union, Russian Premier Nikita Kruschev pounded his shoe on the podium of the United Nations and shouted to the West, "We will bury you!" Fearing an invasion from the Reds, America proceeded to build the most awesome military machine in history. Unfortunately, we forgot to guard our political homefront from being taken over by socialist - communist - liberal activists who would gain office and destroy American law by process of gradually installing the Communist agenda within our legal system and seperate branches of government. The Communist program from the start has been one which sees their revolution of 1917 succesful only upon total domination of the world.
Americans, being the most naive people among the nations, now believe that Communism is dead because the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain have been removed. The ironic truth is that Communism has just switched names to become more "politically correct". Today it is called international democracy. The reason that the Berlin Wall came crashing down is not because Communism is dead but because they have achieved the planned agenda to communize the West, including America. Washington D.C. has indeed become part of the New World Order of atheist governments. With the last vestiges of Christian law having been removed from "American government" over the last twenty years, there is no longer a threat of resistance against world Communism. In reality, "American government" became part of the Iron Curtain, thus there was no more need for the likes of a Berlin Wall.
Once again, in their foolishness, the American public has believed the lies of their "leaders" who applaud "the fall of Communism", while they have sold out the country to anti-Christian, anti-American statutes and regulations on the federal, state, and local levels. Posted below is a comparison of the original ten planks of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart of each of the planks, The American people have truly been "buried in Communism" by their own politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties. One other thing to remember, Karl Marx was stating in the Communist Manifesto that these planks will test whether a country has become commmunist or not. If they are all in effect and in force the country IS communist. Communism, but by any other name...??