Dear Mr. President,
Wall St., media, Republicans and some Democrats have succumbed to lavishly-funded efforts by the likes of Wall St. billionaire Peter Peterson to refocus political dialogue away from jobs onto deficits. The false deficit narrative has become excuse to cut and ultimately privatize Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in order to pay for continued increased tax breaks for the wealthy and the decades-long transfer of wealth upward. To that end, Peterson has helped finance "Fix the Debt", with the backing of more than 80 CEOs, to promote ever larger tax breaks for the wealthy on the backs of the working and unemployed.
- Reversal of Medicare Part D prohibition of negotiated bulk-rate drugs, as some House Democrats have urged for several years, can save over15 billion annually.
- Enactment of Medicare-for-All, universal health care that provides substantial deficit reduction - approximately 400 hundred billion in annual savings demonstrated by numerous studies.
- Ending hundreds of billions of dollars of annual taxpayer subsidies to health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
The "Grand Bargain" promoted by Wall St. is in reality the "Great Betrayal" of the people who elected you. You, not Republicans, won a mandate to stand for people. The electorate wants you to use the bully pulpit to forcefully make the case for the 99%. There should be no further compromising away the working class to benefit the bottom line of the Wall St./corporate 1%.
Respectfully,
Your majority constituency