Reply #11: No, here are my edits [View All]

[sweetheart]

We believe that the promise of America is equal opportunity for all and special privilege for none. We believe that economic growth generated in the private sector is a prerequisite for opportunity and that the public sector has a place as well, and that government's role is to defend the borders and prevent undue strife and competition.

We believe that government programs should be grounded in the values most Americans share: work, family, personal responsibility, individual liberty, faith, tolerance, and inclusion.

We believe in community; that we can achieve our individual destinies. We believe in an ethic of mutual responsibility in which government has an obligation to create opportunity for citizens, but citizens have an obligation to give something back to the commonwealth.

We believe America has a responsibility to lead the world toward greater political and economic freedom by example only.

We believe that as advocates of activist government, we need to reinvent government so that it is both more responsive and more accountable to those it serves.

I said "NO" because i will not be party to an imperialist neoliberal
growth adgenda that overlooks individualism for some amorphous
statist adgenda.

This is why i removed references to neoliberal "growth", "We believe
America has a responsibility to lead the world toward greater
political and economic freedom." (veiled imperialism) which is why
i said by example only.
I took this out: "and to the taxpayers who pay for it" as no
special treatment. A democracy gives on special favours to larger
taxpayers.... all are equal... and the phrase is redundant.
The private sector has serious failings, and one need only look at
the gross failings in american healthcare to realize this. I object
to saying that it is the only solution... nope. The public
sector does indeed have a place.


I would add, in order to say "yes" this phrase.

As a measure of the success of civil society, we should benchmark
against these rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html