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And she means what she says, writes Margery Eagan in the Boston Herald. \u00a0In barely a year in the Senate, she\u2019s turned into a Robin Hood for the \u201chammered\u201d middle class, her endlessly repeated line. But are you in the middle class? Then you know: You are hammered. Can\u2019t afford to retire. Can\u2019t afford the mortgage, taxes, car repairs, college. If you\u2019ve just finished college you can\u2019t afford to move from mom\u2019s basement. Why? The four-figure college loan payments you owe each month.<\/p>\n
This is not how it\u2019s supposed to be if you work hard and play by the rules in America. But this is how it is.<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s talking about this mess nonstop?<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Warren.<\/p>\n
The rich keep getting richer, she says, while the poor get poorer and the middle class, let me repeat, gets \u201chammered.\u201d The banks that were too big to fail in 2008 are even bigger now. Soon we\u2019ll get taxed to bail them out, again.<\/p>\n
Rant about EBT cards all you want. If every one disappeared tomorrow, you\u2019d still be hammered. The real money\u2019s in big corporations and on Wall Street. And they own most of our pols. \u201cMeet the Woman who Stood Up to Wall Street.\u201d So reads a huge headline in a fawning article about Warren in young ladies\u2019 favorite sex-tip magazine, \u201cCosmopolitan.\u201d That\u2019s the magazine that featured a near-nude young Scott Brown, the penny stock investor \u2014 whoops! \u2014 whom Warren vanquished. Now \u201cCosmo\u201d features a fetching young Warren in thigh-hugging jeans and details her rise from divorced mother to the country\u2019s most powerful financial reformer.<\/p>\n
Has she reformed anything yet? No.<\/p>\n
Is she making progress? Yes \u2014 from trashing federal regulators for refusing to regulate banks to crusading for a higher minimum wage. Just yesterday, President Obama praised her for introducing a bill that would let college graduates refinance loans at lower rates. Because it\u2019d be paid for by ending a tax break for millionaires, it will likely fail in a Republican House that takes care of millionaires instead of the \u201chammered.\u201d<\/p>\n
But since it\u2019s finally dawning on the \u201chammered\u201d millions that the system is indeed rigged, Warren, eventually, could prevail. Says Marty Walsh adviser Michael Goldman, \u201cFor politicians, the hardest thing to get is the perception that you actually, deep down, believe in what you\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Apparently more and more of us not only believe Warren believes what she says. We also believe she\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
Warren works step by step on individual issues. \u00a0She is graceful, calm and forceful. Watch her take down the big boys with a cool insistence. \u00a0Is she ready for the big time? \u00a0Maybe yes, maybe no. \u00a0Interestingly, Mrs. Clinton is bringing what she knows about global politics to the front of her speeches. \u00a0Is this what Americans are thinking about?<\/p>\n
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