Arianna Huffington: A New Contract for A Better America

[Sandpiper]

For government to do its part in turning this moral vision into reality, the Democratic nominee must flesh it out with a comprehensive agenda that resets the country's priorities. Here's my suggestion: Let's take a page from the GOP playbook of 1994 and offer up not a "Contract with America" but a "New Contract for a Better America." Here's a draft:

1) Achieve Energy Independence

2) Prescribe a Cure for the Health Care Epidemic

3) Treat Lost Jobs as a Social Calamity, not a Lagging Economic Indicator

4) Truly Leave No Child Behind

5) Break Down Barriers and Create New Opportunities in Education

6) Call a Truce in the Drug War

7) Secure the Homeland First

8) Be a Leader, Not a Bully

9) Restore Integrity to the Political Process

10) Put People Above Corporate Profits

Details at: http://ariannaonline.com/books/fools/contract.php

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Where do I sign?

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Too bad she didn't stick it out in the CA recall. She'd be

a great governor.

[dumpster_baby]

3. Feh! More nebulous Limousine Liberal politcally correct DLC noise

Here is the contract according to dumpster_baby:


1. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

2. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (250K/yr, millionaires, billionaires, etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

3.Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

3. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

4. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

5. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

6. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

7. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

8. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

9. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

10. Return to a progressive tax system where the rich (millionaires etc) are taxed 50-70% or more with no loopholes.

Everything else will fall in place once you have the money. ALso, taxing the rich will give the Dems an actual substantive platform to run on.

[KG]

4. sounds like a good start!