Over the last few decades, the financial services industry lobbied for and won the ability to write its own rules and regulations. The result: The virtual free-for-all that brought us the subprime mortgage industry, the collapse of some of the nation’s biggest banks, and an economic meltdown of epic proportions. It’s time to put the police back on the job on Wall Street, to make sure someone in Washington is watching out for our wallets and to return banking to its rightful place, not as an industry unto itself but as support for investment in real industries, the kind that create jobs.

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America’s middle-class took a serious beating in the last decade of conservative rule. We are down, but we are far from out. It’s time to admit once and for all that it didn’t, doesn’t and it never will trickle down. We need to rewrite the economic rules and rebuild our economy from the ground up. The right to join forces with co-workers and bargain for better wages and working conditions is a key component of building and maintaining a strong middle-class. For decades, corporate America has been chipping away at that right. The Employee Free Choice Act is about restoring America’s vanishing middle-class, and ultimately, about restoring the American dream.

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The end of our addiction to foreign oil can also be the beginning of our transformation into the world’s leading source of clean, renewable energy. Investment in new technologies, together with efforts to reduce harmful pollution, will put us on the path to a clean energy future – a path lined with countless new American jobs. That same path will lead us away from a risky foreign policy dictated by our endless need to feed our oil habit and from the global upheaval that will result from climate change. All that’s standing in the way of a clean energy future are the lobbyists for the power of the past.

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