List of Kerry Convention Speech Promises

[Florida_Geek]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-CVN-Kerry-Promises.html

List of Kerry Convention Speech Promises
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 11:26 p.m. ET

BOSTON (AP) -- A list of promises and pledges in John Kerry's Thursday night speech:

-- Recruit allies to help rebuild Iraq.

-- Add 40,000 active duty troops, including a doubling of special forces to fight terrorism.

-- Immediately implement the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission to improve America's security.

-- Will not privatize Social Security or cut benefits.

-- Create incentives to revitalize manufacturing and invest in job-creating technology and innovation.

-- Eliminate tax incentives that encourage companies to ship jobs overseas and reward companies that keep and create jobs in the United States.

-- Enforce protections for American workers in trade agreements.

-- Cut the deficit in half in four years.

-- Cut middle-class taxes and reduce the tax burden on small businesses.

-- Repeal Bush's tax cuts for people making more than $200,000 a year.

-- Institute an education plan that sets high standards, provides for smaller class sizes and demands accountability from parents, teachers, and schools.

-- Give a tax credit for college tuition.

-- Save families up to $1,000 on health care premiums by cracking down on waste and abuse in the system; ensure patients can chose their own doctors; allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for seniors; and allow Americans to buy less expensive prescription drugs from other countries.

-- Invest in vehicles that run on alternative fuels and other energy-saving technology

...not a lot of words so I was bad and posted all :)

[shockingelk]

1. Did I hear him promise

To be independent from ME oil? That struck me as hugely ambitious if I heard correctly.

They also left out the most bimportant thing: restore trust and credibility to the White House

[mom cat]

2. And we have promices to keep and miles to go before we sleep.

[oscar111]

3. Healthcare weak: Air America needed for better promises

I suppose he will improve promises if he can get better thru the House.

For that , we need AA radio everrywhere . We are a party without a voice.

Healthcare is woefully weak promise. Keeps shifting.
--all
--98%
--"reduce costs by $1000"
--"all can buy into the plan Congress has"

Kucinich has plan for free healthcre, no insurance payments needed, i think.
anyone verify or correct that ? thanks

Still, Kerry centuries ahead of Cromagnon bush. Let's give bush a pension of free-for-life baboon chow.

[AmericanErrorist]

4. You got that right

A Kucinich administration would establish streamlined national health insurance, Enhanced Medicare for All. It would be publicly-financed health care, privately delivered, and would put patients and doctors back in control of the system. Coverage will be more complete than private insurance plans, encourage prevention and include prescription drugs, dental care, mental health care, and alternative and complementary medicine....

Health care is currently dominated by insurance firms and HMOs, institutions that are more bureaucratic and costly than Medicare. Right now, private companies are charging about 18% for administration, while the cost of Medicare administration is only 3%. People are waiting longer for appointments. Fewer people are getting a doctor of their choice. Physicians are being given monetary incentives to deny care. Pre-existing illnesses are being used to deny coverage. It's important to understand that insurance companies make more money by NOT providing health care. A single-payer system can save money by investing in preventive care, as well as by cutting out the insurance companies' profits.

http://www.kucinich.us/issues/universalhealth.php

[oscar111]

5. healthcare details

1.6 Trillion is current cost from all sources.
0.4 is stupid paperwork handling cost.

nationalized health would thus be 1.2 T

cut salaries to toss out greedheads, and cost drops to half or less... from salary now of 150 000 to $50 000. Other nations have done similar.. all other industrialized rich nations.
New cost, 0.6 T.

new tax on upper reaches would easily cover that. Fewer $1 000 omlets at the NYC Parker-Meridian hotel. (somewhere around W. 53rd st.) But could they live without those omlets? Without parties where vodka pours from a male opening in the ice statue of David? { Kozlowski party , $2 million.} Maybe we ought to keep going without doctors.

[oscar111]

6. CocaCola: do the poor have to pay monthly insur under Kuci plan?

some cannot.

[eridani]

7. No, they don't n/t

[Melodybe]

8. Don't worry about the details, we have Dean for healthcare

I love that tonight John Kerry truly showed the best part of all of the Democratic Candidates. I heard Echoes of Dean, Sharpton, Edwards, Clark, Braun, Graham, Gephardt, Kucinch, I intentionally leave Lieberman out, but I have to say the little troll didn't even piss me off tonight. Kerry took it all and rolled it into a ball.

Then he knowed it all out of the park.

Don't worry about healthcare, Democrats don't use fussy math, we will find a way.

[eridani]

9. 95% isn't good enough for me

I grew up poor because my parents were in that 5% of the sickest that get left out. At least Dean has switched to advocating 100%, which is helpful. But it was Kucinich that pushed him on that.

[oscar111]

10. 100 % healthcare: nothing less!

dont let kerry get away with leaving any adult out. Total for kiddies is not enough.

If you say healthcare, always say
"100 %" in the same breath.

Leave NO weasel-out room.

Total and free is the goal.

Less, and repubs will start to expand the exceptions... till we are back here again, the hellish labyrinth.

Total and free makes it hard for them to begin any exceptions. Surround it with exceptions, and repubs will nibble unobserved by the voters.

Total and free doctors.

600 billion is the cost, from higher tax on the upper regions.
Gen. Clark had that idea. Kuci also has a similar idea, tho i think he has insurance premiums for the middle class , not fully free healthcare. Correction on Kuci? Welcome all corrections that are polite.

[eridani]

11. Kucinich plan funded by taxes on payroll

concurrent with the complete elimination of insurance premiums.

http://www.kucinich.us/issues/universalhealth.php

We are already paying for universal health care, we just aren't getting it.

[thecrow]

14. Well he pissed me off!

When Lieberman said the thing about our troops in Iraq "fighting terrorists" what little respect I had for him went out the door.

[JohnKleeb]

16. Yeah I could see echos of all those candiates in him

He thanked them for teaching him too, I thought it was a nice thing to do. I hope so, I think Kerry can have a good health care direction. The outsourcing of Jobs part was totally Gephardt and Kucinich. He combines the good qualities of all with his own to be super candiate heh.

[aneerkoinos]

12. Foreign policy

So, nothing new, the same old bullshit.

"-- Recruit allies to help rebuild Iraq."

Bullshit. Kerry don't say how because he don't know how. He's simply lying, France and Germany won't change their policy just because the helmsman changes while "staying the course".


"-- Add 40,000 active duty troops, including a doubling of special forces to fight terrorism."

Is this 40 000 more targets to Iraq, or just generally 40 000 more troops? Academical... but who's willing to recruite when there's high risk of ending up in Iraqnam?

[Judi Lynn]

13. Thanks a lot, Florida_Geek! This is so helpful!

(Photos taken from:

http://abcnews.go.com/

in "picture" section at top of the page.)

[PATRICK]

15. Bush keeps devastating the possibilities

The promise to be honest about your chances for reform in light of ongoing trashing by the WH and GOP gerrymandering is the toughest one for a candidate of hope.

I think Clinton exceeded campaign expectations for the economy quite a lot, but who can boost promises with a crystal ball? Health care was done in by the GOP, but that counts against a president anyway.