haw river
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Fri Jan-23-09 12:36 PM
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LIBERALS PROOF THEY BUILT A GREAT NATION |
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SUBMIT IT TO MANY FORUMS AND PAPERS ETC
82 GREAT THINGS BY DEMOCRATS
ALL AMERICAN PARTY
Can anyone name ten for Republicans
Credit for this most of this information goes to my friend, a great mind, and his terrific site (Rev.Ray Dubuque—www. Liberals like Christ.org)
Republicans fought most of these plus WWII Draft
1. social security act
2. medicare
3. gi bill of rights
4.national industrial recovery act
5.national housing act
6.federal communications act
7.national labor relations act-wagner act of 1935
8.fair labor standards act (min wage & max hours laws)
9.public works adm-works progress adm
10.civilian conservation act
11.Tennessee valley (power) authority
12.rural electrification act
13.full employment act
14.permanent school lunch program
15. Truman ended segregation in armed forces
16.veterans emergency housing act
17.public health service act
18.marshall plan
19.peace corps
20.aid to dependent children program
21.small business investment act
22.establishment of arms control and disarmament agency
23.consumer drug protection laws
24.equal pay act
25.manpower development and retraining act
26.clean air act
27.mental health and mental retardation act
28.college and vocational education act
29.civil rights act
30.voting rights act
31.mass transportation act
32.omnibus poverty act (office of economic opportunity, vista, job corps and public assistance programs)
33.war on poverty
34.head start (for pre-school children)
35.land conservation fund
36.permanent food stamp program
37.appalachia regional development act
38.elementary and secondary education act
39.higher education act
40.older Americans act (medicare and medicaid)
41.law enforcement assistance act
42.immigration reform act
43.freedom of information act
44.clean water restoration act
45.coal mine health and safety act
46.child protection
47.federal ethics code
48.civil service reform
49.creation of superfund (cleanup of toxic waste)
50.secretary of health joseph califano(fight tobacco health threat)
51.votings rights act extension
52.highway and mass transit funding bill
53.civil rights restoration act
54.head start expansion
55.Americans with disabilities act
56.major tax increase on the wealthy to fight deficits created by Reagan
57.family medical leave act
58.attempted to extend/or improve health insurance coverage for millions of Americans
59.restoration of democracy to haiti
60.restoration of peace to bosnia
61.promotion of peace in south Africa
62.promotion of peace in northern Ireland
63.promotion of peace in Israel and Palestine
64.increases in minimum wage
65.promotion of spending on inner-city schools
66.opposition to abolition of safety net for the poor
67.protection of social security and medicare
68.promotion of justice for victims of racism
69.protection of children from cancer inducing tobacco industry
70.constantly frustrated efforts to enact thorough campaign finance
71.appointment of many minorities and women to cabinet positions
72.resolution of long-standing black farmers discrimination issues
73.leadership role in nato’s campaign to stop ethnic cleansing in kosovo.
74.major efforts to challenge the dangerous proliferation of assault weapons in America
75.ameri-corps
76. pay their way party—
1960 to 1980—National Income grew 418%--Debt grew 210%
1980 to 1992 National Income grew 102%--Debt grew 300%.
Democrats pay their way-Republicans party of spend and borrow-our kids pay Tomorrow
77. party for strong defense—carter increased defense spending by 50%--
Nixon-Ford cut Army troops by 41% and Reagan-Bush cut by 11%
78. Party of Integrity---Reagan had more(137) charged with crimes than cumulative total for all presidents of 20th century.
79. vacation with pay
80.trade union schools—forerunner to community colleges
81.worker retirement pensions
82.veterans administration
83.earned income tax credit—senator russell long bill
Great Gop achievements— Eisenhower initiated Interstate Highway Reagan signed Martin Luther King holiday Nixon signed affirmative action law Nixon initiated EPA Nixon initiated OSHA
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BrklynLiberal
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Fri Jan-23-09 12:38 PM
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1. www. Liberals like Christ.org is a fantastic site. |
bunnies
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Fri Jan-23-09 12:40 PM
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2. liberals like christ?! |
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mmmkay. OR you could keep your religion out of my politics. Thanks.
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LaydeeBug
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Fri Jan-23-09 12:46 PM
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3. Will you please change "proof" to "prove" in your title? thanks eom. |
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Fri Jan-23-09 01:14 PM
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4. Or put a colon after Liberals |
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That would fix it, also. :hi:
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Lance31
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Sat Jan-31-09 06:44 AM
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7. I like proof, 10%proof |
benEzra
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Fri Jan-23-09 04:47 PM
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5. Gingrich and others manipulated gullible Dems into #74... |
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and rode the entirely predictable backlash into the Speaker's chair. There is a lesson in that.
FWIW, less than 3% of U.S. murders involve any type of rifle, and military automatic weapons are already as tightly controlled by Federal law as howitzers and tanks.
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AtheistCrusader
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Thu Jan-29-09 10:41 AM
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6. This is no good without sources. |
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And I see a couple errors from here. Many of these are true, but a couple surprising ones are not. Such as: "29.civil rights act". Both parties were in favor of it, but surprisingly Republican support was stronger. The party lines are different today. At the time, Democrats held most of the former slaveholding states, by a wide margin. The original House version:<9>
Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%) Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%) The Senate version:<9>
Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%) Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%) The Senate version, voted on by the House:<9>
Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%) Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)
Not long after this act, some of them switched parties, and those states are core Republican (red) states today.
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haw river
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Tue Feb-03-09 01:17 PM
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A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT GOT CIVIL RIGHT PASSED
D E M O C R A T I C
CLEAR ENOUGH AMIGO?
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Sat Mar-07-09 11:39 AM
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I am happy to find this great list right away when I was thinking about this very subject! TYVM.....Republicans never cease to wave the flag of freedom reminding us of the ways that Ronald Reagan (and by extension Republicans historically)expanded freedom. I'm troubled by this argument that conservatism and libertarianism are the pathway to freedom. Perhaps they are the pathway for a very few but at what cost to others? For every stock swindler, factory czar and agricultural lord there are thousands of immigrants, the poor, minorities, women and children who are victimized to support these economic freedoms. It's as if conservatives and pure market defenders believe that the wealth and power of the power elite were obtained out of thin air.....without regard to control and manipulation of the factors of production. What the above writer provided and what I would like to read more about is......how the so-called "big government" advocates have (rather than RESTRICTING freedom) contributed to freedom and enfranchisement. I'm sure many scholars have written on this topic.........any reading suggestions for me?
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Liberalsiano
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Sat Mar-14-09 10:03 PM
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Partisan stupidity is partisan stupidity.
Democrats belonged to the party of slavery, racism and oppression for over a century... and have been the party of war more often than Republicans. (And no, not just "good" wars like WW2)
At the turn of the century Republicans were the trust-busting progressives... As pointed out earlier more Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of '64. Of those Republicans who did not support the bill (Goldwater being a great example), their opposition was out of a principled stance on property rights and "legislating morality" and not out of racism. The dixiecrat Democrats opposition was purely out of racism.
It's fine to be a liberal (Replace fine with "Great" :P), fine to be a Democrat... but don't devolve into partisan hackery. Both parties today are pretty incompetent, with the GOP being a good deal more so. Obama is pretty solid, the rest of the Dem leadership is abysmal. The blue dogs need to go IMO...
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