The ten commandments (or more maybe?) of liberalism.

[Cleita]

Something everyone who calls themselves a Democrat should at least think about.

Thou shall not tamper with Social Security and Medicare except to improve it.
Thou shall extend health care to everyone
Thou shall educate all children through high school. Free university education should be available to the brightest and most qualified,not the richest.
Thou shall make safe and comfortable shelter available to all who need it.
Thou shall provide food for the hungry.
Thou shall provide free transportation to those who need it to commute to work and to shop.
Thou shall provide a job to everyone who wants one even if it is the state that provides it.
Thou shall make minimum wage a living wage, indexed to productivity to set the rate.
Thou shall make women's and men's reproductive health between them and their doctor and no one else.
Thou shall not discriminate against anyone for their ethnicity, gender, sexual identity or religion.

Okay what did I miss?

Oh, how will this be paid for? Taxes of course but taxes that are targeted. For instance, large corporations should be taxed for education because it is them that will benefit from an educated work force. Stores and business districts should pay for public transportation because it brings the workers and customers and clients to them. Anyway, this is a start.

[forestpath]

1. Thou shall not subsidize religious institutions with public money.

[Cleita]

2. Yes, we need to enforce the Constitution about the separation of church and state. n/t

[liberal_at_heart]

3. k&r.

[Cleita]

5. No we don't because they obviously don't need jobs. n/t

[TimberValley]

6. "Free transportation to those who need it?"

I have never heard this particular tenet before.

[liberal_at_heart]

8. How do you think the poor and elderly get around?

[Cleita]

10. They did a version of it in Portland. But the Bureaucrats ended it

because of a dispute with the transportation worker's union.

http://www.katu.com/news/local/80545902.html

http://portlandcitycenter.katu.com/content/no-more-free-bus-service-out-front-door

[Nye Bevan]

7. Thou shalt not say that somebody is "good looking" (nt)

[Rayhooliac]

9. I prefer to be called "drop-dead gorgeous"

It has never happened, but just in the case the opportunity arises....

[meow2u3]

11. Thou shalt not take the food out of the mouths of thy hungry neighbor nt

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

12. You mentioned about targeted taxes in paying for it...

I love the idea in the President's proposal for an increase in the tobacco tax to fund Pre-K!

[Cleita]

13. That won't work. Tobacco has already been taxed to the max and most Americans

have given up the habit. I would rather tax the corporations and Wall Street for that. An educated work force benefits them and Pre-K is part of that.