Beyond Bush: How to Win Back America

[OneBlueSky]

http://www.utne.com/pub/2003_117/promo/10454-1.html

this has probably been posted before, but I think it's a good time to re-read it . . . it's an article by Jay Wallsjasper of the Utne Reader that concludes with four objectives that could become a simple and effective Democratic platform:

Energy Independence
A big push for conservation and renewable power sources that would diminish our dependence on Mideast oil.

Health Care for Everyone
The issue that won it for Clinton in 1992 but he then botched with a timid and overly bureaucratic managed-care proposal.

Fair Tax Policy
Stop tax cuts for the wealthy and reduce the bite of payroll taxes (social security and such) on most people’s take-home pay by eliminating loopholes that exempt well-to-do folks from paying payroll taxes on any income over $85,000.

Restore Privacy Protections
Keep both government and corporate big brothers out of our lives.

clear, concise, to the point, and easily rememberable . . . do we need anything more? . . . I don't think so . . .

http://www.utne.com/pub/2003_117/promo/10454-1.html

[BurtWorm]

1. Rational Foreign Policy

Dems always seem to forget that one. But oen of the main reasons Bush has to be out by 2005 is because he's fucked up US foreign policy. We need an administration that believes in international law, multilateralism, and democratic reform of the international finance and monetary structures.