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June 15, 2006

Are You Sitting Down?

The Dems ACTUALLY released what they are going to run on and stand for in this election. It's quite hilarious:

Democrats in Congress offer a New Direction, putting the common good of all Americans first for a change, and will:

MAKE HEALTH CARE MORE AFFORDABLE
Fix the prescription drug program by putting people ahead of drug companies and HMOs, eliminating wasteful subsidies, negotiating lower drug prices and ensuring the program works for all seniors; invest in stem cell and other medical research.

READ: Fix the prescription drug program by doubling its cost, halving it's efficiency by removing market incentives and invest in EMBRYONIC stem cell research that destroys life and cured NOTHING; and put doctors out of business while our trial lawyers sue them for every penny.

LOWER GAS PRICES AND ACHIEVE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Crack down on price gouging; eliminate billions in subsidies for oil and gas companies and use the savings to provide consumer relief and develop American alternatives, including biofuels; promote energy efficient technology.

READ: Bash gas companies who have been shown not to be gouging; eliminate incentives for domestic production of energy through endless regulations and taxation; cause a gas shortage by capping fuel costs and have press conferences and photo shoots with Hollywood celebrities who drive Priuses.

HELP WORKING FAMILIES
Raise the minimum wage; repeal tax giveaways that encourage companies to move jobs overseas.

READ: create unemployment and put small businesses out of business by raising the minimum wage; repeal tax giveaways to the middle class by trashing Bush's tax cuts for the "rich" (people making more than 40k a year).

CUT COLLEGE COSTS
Make college tuition deductible from taxes; expand Pell grants and cut student loan costs.

READ: Make college tuition deductible from the now higher taxes you pay; hand out free money, ipods and condoms to college freshmen.

ENSURE DIGNIFIED RETIREMENT
Prevent the privatization of Social Security; expand savings incentives; ensure pension fairness.

READ: Bankrupt our economy to buy votes now; confiscate earnings to pay for people's poor decisions; reduce savings and planning incentives by taxing the hell out of estates and investments in the market; ensure pension fairness by allowing our union thugs, er, constituents to negotiate fantastical pensions and then have the American taxpayer foot the bill when the pensions go belly-up.

REQUIRE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
Restore the budget discipline of the 1990s that helped eliminate deficits and spur record economic growth.

READ: Restore budget discipline by running away in Iraq; raising taxes; cutting military funding in half; raising taxes; enciting class warfare; raising taxes; creating another economic bubble like the dotcoms; raising taxes; sitting by and allowing scandals like Enron, Worldcom and Tyco to build; raising taxes; mentioning Herbert Hoover as much as possible and, oh and raising taxes.

THE WRONG DIRECTION
The Bush Administration and the Republican Majority in Congress have taken the country in the wrong direction for Americans and their families by:

I have to quite my lunch break, please feel free to add to the successes of this administration and congress over the last five years.

Posted by Aaron at June 15, 2006 01:11 PM

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I still wish I understood why people think raising the minimum wage would do any good.

Posted by: DoubleU at June 15, 2006 07:21 PM

seeing as how only 2% of wage earners (legal wage earners) earn mininmum wage...

Posted by: aaron at June 16, 2006 05:00 AM

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