Politics, Motherhood, and Politics

  My name is Jamie Wood, the interim Political Education Committee chair for our new group, Working Families Joliet. And I live on the far west side of Joliet, actually Kendall County Joliet. But for me, ALL of Joliet is my city, my home for 20 years. I am here with my colleagues from Working Families Joliet because I want change from Joliet to Washington D.C. And the way that is going to happen is if I remind you all of one basic right, NO, one basic obligation, and that is to Vote! Voting is the chance we have to change our democracy into something that works for all of us. Yes, I know many of you vote, at least in the U.S. Presidential Elections.  Many of you think that is enough, and that is the only time it matters.  But voting is important in ALL elections.  We must vote in Midterm elections, State Elections, Local elections, like city council, mayoral, school boards, county boards...dog catcher.  Every election counts, every vote counts. Alas, there are t...

  Forget Medicare for all, or any type of national healthcare system, after decades of trying to destroy these “socialist” systems, it seems those on the right and those who do not believe in a nation helping each other, might destroy those programs which we already have in our country. We have to keep fighting for the social programs that you would think would be untouchable, Social Security being one of them. Last week, the Trump Administration announced that it will do a “Payroll” tax holiday, which means that this is a bold step in defunding Social Security. “Employees now pay 6.2% of their income in payroll taxes — the money is withheld from their paycheck and used to fund Social Security. Employers also pay 6.2% of worker salaries.”- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-payroll-tax-deferral-executive-order-how-much-will-workers-get/    Not only that, you all will have to pay it back during tax season, along with the COVID stimulus package passed earlier this year....