Reply #15: Let me fill those holes for you: [View All]

[LWolf]

1. I couldn't find a quote about "mounting" deficits; do you have a link? I know DK believes in investing tax dollars in public projects, infrastructure, and investment as a policy that benefits the nation as a whole in the future.

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If government is determined or obliged by law to maintain a balanced budget, a capital budget rule which discounted investment spending (in calculating what would in effect be an operating deficit) would imply that the correct level of net Federal borrowing was whatever investment had been planned. To the contrary, I would urge this Commission to forego such antiquated, pre-Keynesian economic notions. The Commission should emphasize the Federal government's obligation to run a fiscal policy which promotes full employment. The level of capital spending should have no automatic consequences for allowable deficits. We should stipulate that net investment levels would ideally approximate the level of borrowing, but not constrain it.

http://clinton4.nara.gov/pcscb/wt_kucinich.html

This is definitely a departure from Dean's position, but it is certainly nothing like the Bush take on economy: spend more on global empire building while cutting taxes for the rich and gutting social services at home.

2. Why wouldn't it be? 9-11 didn't occur because we weren't spending enough trillions on the military. And, with all the $$$ we've spent, more than the rest of the world, and certainly more than the attackers, it didn't prevent it.

3. It's not his supporters; it's what he says:

support Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose, and will select Supreme Court justices who affirm this Constitutional right.

I’ve had a journey on this issue that a year ago, before I became a candidate for President, caused me to break from a voting record that had not been pro-choice. After hearing from many women in my own life, and from women and men in my community and across the country, I began a more intensive dialogue on the issue. A lot of women opened their hearts to me. That dialogue led me to wholeheartedly support a woman’s right to choose.

I have come to believe that it’s not simply about the right to choose, but about a woman’s role in society as being free and having agency and having the ability to make her own decisions. That a woman can’t be free unless she has this right.

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is one of the most serious decisions a woman might make. It is deeply personal. In our society, all women and all men have a right to make difficult moral decisions and make personal choices. But women will not be equal to men if this constitutionally protected right is denied.

And because I know that the right to choose is under attack -- as President, I will only support someone for the Supreme Court if he or she agrees to uphold Roe v. Wade.

(April, 2003)