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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (6753)	6/1/2004 12:14:51 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

1. Taxes & Spending: # Increase federal spending and taxes--if needed to provide services and protection to the Americans. # Regardless of increases or decreases, it is vitally important that federal spending and taxes are balanced. # Full employment for all Americans should be federal policy. Advocates a national program modeled after Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal and its TVA, including a detailed plan to create a "Super-TVA" to upgrade and fix the country's transportation network, with high-speed magnetic rail. Such emergency infrastructure resolution would make millions of jobs, and be the first step toward America becoming a producer society again. His program reportedly influenced Kucinich to announce his running as an "FDR Democrat." "We must shift from the Wal-Mart to reality. Reality means infrastructure building as the leading edge of a revival of durable goods production." ....................................................... 7. EDUCATION "Sweeping changes in public education, at all levels." "[A] "Hill-Burton" approach to higher education -- referring to the 1946 legislation which mandated the provision of quantity and quality of hospital care to every county in the United States." source "The system of public education, the foundation stone of any democratic republic, is almost universally acknowledged to be failing in America. A look at the real problem, whether the proposed solutions are actually good, and the basis for a sound public education." Pray tell, just what is wrong with that interpretation?