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Edited on Wed May-14-08 11:48 PM by catnhatnh
and our plan for PNAC (Plan for the NEXT American Century)???Because their's has failed so clearly and openly.Yet where is the Democratic voice that as clearly advocates where and what a real balanced plan for a single and viable America might be.
Obviously, our plan will of need be more complex than destabilizing another government and attempting to take their oil.Our plan if we are to reflect the last 230 years of our experiment must reward enterprise and risk taking.But it cannot reflect our earlier tendencies toward empire.Instead our higher aspirations should move us toward a society where those who contribute the most to the economy are in fact the most rewarded by the system, but those who contribute little are not punished. These things I hold to be self evident-that like the Declaration of Independence we should guarantee life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
What do these things guarantee at the least? Life I guess assumes housing, clothing, food, and heating enough not to die...though clothing could be optional-but I'd bet naked people will require more heating. Universal healthcare cannot guarantee you will live as long as a Rockefeller but might preclude you from dying from type two diabetes at 35. An elitist republican clown or libertarian will posit a bit on how this refers to executions-ignore them-dead by starvation or exposure or disease is dead also.
Liberty is a bit of a mixed blessing.It leaves Grover Norquist as a "respected think tank analyst" while I am regarded merely as a left wing moonbat poster to a "Democratic fringe website"...The major difference being that each day more people realize that I am the sane one.Real liberty means that tomorrow, even G.W. Bushes opinion is as valid as mine and should be as freely spoken right up until the day he stands before the Hague with his cohorts.
The "pursuit of happiness" is the Democratic mother of all bombs...for all the years since Reagan it has meant deregulation and that greed "is good" as econopaths sought "happiness" by raping the commons and indulging in excess.But what in the past 100 years has truly guaranteed to the largest number of Americans the pursuit of happiness if not the New Deal of FDR???The sorrow of course is that FDR never even went far enough...we have never achieved freedom from want and until want is gone the pursuit of happiness will never be reached.
Any day a Dupont (old wealth) or a Hilton (relatively new wealth) births a child, they will receive possibilities beyond the ken of the majority of Americans...they receive better housing, better food, better healthcare, better education, and better "justice" than you or I. But until the least of us get enough of each to reach our "guarantees" then our republic is a lie.
And what we need now is our own Grover, and a plan to get there...
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