US Senate - millionaires club and unemployment benefits.

The US senate is made up of millionaires. It is also an undemocratic body. One comes with the other. It is undemocratic because the smallest of states with a couple of million population have the same number of senators, two, as the largest of states such as California with up to 40 million members. The idea is to make sure that the urban masses in the great cities, the urban working class are not able to use their voting strength to the extent they should. It takes more urban workers and black workers and latino workers votes to elect a Senator than it does white rural votes.

This undemocratic millionaires club showed its true colors this week when it voted to cut unemployment benefits from 1.3 million Americans. The Senate millionaires have told them they must live on nothing. They do not tell the big corporations who get billions in corporate welfare that they will get nothing from now on, they themselves do not cut their own income and stop filling their pockets with corporate bribes. No its the 1.3 million unemployed who have to starve.

As if the undemocratic nature of the senate described above were not enough the Senators of both parties have come to an agreement that to force a vote and end debate in this body 60 of the 100 Senators have to vote to do so. Not a simple majority which would be democratic but 60 out of the 100 votes. This is not a law, the senators just made it up between them. They use it as an excuse to their voters for not carrying out policies in their interests. What a racket. And they expect young people and poor people to respect their system. We have said many times on this blog that capitalism does not work. It is also the case that it is undemocratic.

Working class people need our own mass working peoples party. we also need to see that when US capitalism was fighting for power it did not respect any electoral or parliamentary procedures. It fought British rule with arms in hand and it fought the slave owners in the same way. We the US working class will have to use our power in the workplaces, the streets, the communities and build a mass movement which will overwhelm the dirty undemocratic rules and tricks of US capitalism.