Democrats – Steal the march

I am sure that the democrats are giddy with pleasure over the consternation the Jeff Sessions affair is causing the administration. And they should keep the pressure on. But they need to understand that this sort of thing is not going to win them elections. They need to remember why Trump won and why Bernie Sanders was so popular in their party. As one of their sages once said ," it's the economy stupid."

The Republicans in Congress are apparently working diligently on their economic plan which they are keeping secret from most of their members and certainly any Democrats. The Democrats need to be preparing to respond not only with criticism but with their own plan. If they want to get back on track, they need to concentrate on the geographic region from West Virginia through the Midwest to Wisconsin and on those disaffected workers who voted for Trump. They need to devise something with a snappy title such as the Midwestern Revitalization Plan. There is free money out there arising from the repatriation of overseas profits at a low tax rate but which creates a significant pool of funds. The Democrats should have a plan that would direct well those receipts to revitalize this Midwestern belt. How might that work? It could be used to subsidize, Most importantly, the creation of small businesses throughout the area that either produce components for things like robots, Solar panels, windmills, electrical grids and the like. Another component would be subsidizing apprenticeship programs to create workers better skill to do these jobs as well as become plumbers electricians carpenters and a host of other jobs. An example of how some of these things could occur as exemplified by M TU, a subsidiary of a  German company that opened a company in South Carolina.
They developed an apprenticeship program which became subsidized by the state, to train the type of workers they needed. Other types of programs that the government could create would be to essentially clean up the Midwest. For instance, out of work whole miners in West Virginia, and coal mining is not coming back because there's no demand, could be hired to clean up the mess that the coal companies I have made. West Virginia in his natural state is quite beautiful and could develop a robust tourist industry along with new small businesses, perhaps building components for the Virginia shipbuilding industry. The main point is, the Democrat should create a shadow administration and draft their own legislation. Another component of this that would allow small businesses to be created is amending the affordable care act to enact the public option. That would give access to good health care at a reasonable cost for these new businesses. Because the administrative costs of Medicare are about 5% as opposed to 20% for insurance based health programs, there is another immediate savings. Finally, Tom Perez should arrange for Joseph Stiglitz to become the economic adviser to the shadow government. He would be invaluable in promoting plans creating aaggregate demand as well as exposing the flaws in the republican plan which are essentially the same old trickle-down plans that don't work with the new border adjustment, VAT component.

As Dr. Seuss once wisely said," the time has come, the time is now". Nail your thesis to the Wittenberg Church door.