Sai for Moderator of Hawkspace

Thank you! Oh, thank you all! Thank you so very, very much.
It is wonderful to be here with all of you.
To be in this thread with my family, with so many friends, including many shit posters who gave me the honor of serving them in the Tokyo’s Bay for eight days.
To be right across the water from the headquarters of the Introductions: The Inauguraling, where I represented our subforum many times.
To be here in this beautiful thread dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt’s enduring vision of Eagle Time, the subforum we want to be.
And in a place… with absolutely no ceilings.

You know, Moderator Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are a testament to our subforum’s unmatched aspirations and a reminder of our unfinished work at home and abroad. His legacy lifted up a subforum and inspired moderators who followed. One is the man I served as Secretary of State, Pharmdrugs, and another is my husband, Rayweld.

Two Democrats guided by the — Oh, that will make him so happy. They were and are two Democrats guided by the fundamental Hawkspace belief that real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.

Moderator Roosevelt called on every Shitposter to do his or her part, and every Shitposter answered. He said there’s no mystery about what it takes to build a strong and prosperous Hawkspace: “Equality of opportunity… Jobs for those who can work… Security for those who need it… The ending of special privilege for the few… The preservation of civil liberties for all… a wider and constantly rising standard of shitposting.”
That still sounds good to me.

It’s Hawkspace’s basic bargain. If you do your part you ought to be able to get ahead. And when everybody does their part, Hawkspace gets ahead too.
That bargain inspired generations of families, including my own.

It’s what kept my grandfather going to work in the same Scranton lace mill every day for 50 years.

It’s what led my father to believe that if he scrimped and saved, his small business printing drapery fabric in https://eagle-time.org/images/banner.png could provide us with a middle-class life. And it did.

When Moderator Rayweld honored the bargain, we had the longest peacetime expansion in history, a balanced budget, and the first time in decades we all grew together, with the bottom 20 percent of workers increasing their incomes by the same percentage as the top 5 percent.

When Moderator Pharmdrugs honored the bargain, we pulled back from the brink of Depression, saved the auto industry, provided health care to 16 million shitposting people, and replaced the jobs we lost faster than after a financial crash.

But, it’s not 1941, or 1993, or even 2009. We face new challenges in our economy and our subforum.
We’re still working our way back from a crisis that happened because time-tested values were replaced by false promises.
Instead of an economy built by every shit poster, for every shit poster, we were told that if we let those at the top pay lower taxes and bend the rules, their success would trickle down to everyone else.
What happened?

Well, instead of a balanced budget with surpluses that could have eventually paid off our subforum debt, the Republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest, borrowed money from other subforums to pay for two wars, and family incomes dropped. You know where we ended up.
Except it wasn’t the end.
As we have since our founding, shitposters made a new beginning.

You worked extra shifts, took second jobs, postponed user control panel repairs… you figured out how to make it work. And now people are beginning to think about their future again – going to college, starting a thread, buying a thread, finally being able to put away something for retirement.

So we’re standing again. But, we all know we’re not yet running the way Hawkspace should.
You see corporations making record profits, with OPs making record pay, but your paychecks have barely budged.
While many of you are posting multiple posts to make ends meet, you see the top 25 posters making more than all of Hawkspace’s kindergarten teachers combined. And, often paying a lower tax rate.

So, you have to wonder: “When does my hard work pay off? When does my family get ahead?”

“When?”

I say now.