“Six in ‘06”

[proud2BlibKansan]

A Punchy New Slogan: “Six in ‘06”
Submitted by Jean Carnahan on Sat, 06/10/2006 - 6:07am. Guest Editorials

A Punchy New Slogan: "Six in '06"
by Jean Carnahan

I was surprised, pleased, encouraged—all of the aforementioned—to read that Democrats will be coming up with a Contract-for-America-style agenda very soon. ABC correspondent Jake Tapper attributes the intel to Teddy Davis of their political unit.

The new proposal entitled “Six in ‘06” is supposedly a pithy six-point program around which Democrats could rally—and perhaps even commit to memory—though, for the moment, there appears to be only five points, the sixth still being in limbo.

So here’s the Democratic version of Newt’s Manual for Reclaiming the Congress:

1. A minimum wage increase;
2. Repeal of portion of the Medicare prescription drug law that prevents Medicare from negotiating for lower drug prices;
3. Implement all of the 9/11 Commission’s homeland security recommendations.
4. Reinstate pay-as-you-go-budget rules;
5. Make college more affordable, and
6. (The sixth plank, yet to be determined)

more . . .
http://www.firedupmissouri.com/node/4382

[Dawgs]

1. Uh, how about an energy policy to rally around?

:shrug:

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Read the link

She covers that.

[spanone]

2. K & R

[Mnemosyne]

3. #6. E-machine fraud. #7 Iraq.

These both need addressed by the Dems, too important to ignore!

If no fair elections democracy is gone for good anyway.

[stevedeshazer]

5. If they ignore the war and immigration, we lose. Period.

The Republicans will pound the shit out of us with war and terror, metaphorically and literally.

All five enumerated points involve domestic politics, when the entire world is crying out for America to fix their disastrous foreign policy.

I don't like the looks of this; it won't fly. :(

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Read the link

This is just a start.

[stevedeshazer]

7. I did

:shrug:

[WhiteTara]

8. building the future with green energy

not nuclear, not fossil fuels, and for heavens sake, when are we going to realize that corn ethenol takes more energy than it produces and maybe reinstate the hemp fields so that we could use hemp oil, which was going to be the fuel before the gushers of Texas produces dirty gasoline.

Sounds good and positive, all the above. Leaves out Iraq and impeachment, which are givens.

[JackRiddler]

9. The American Homeland Is the Planet

Besides that the 9/11 Commission practiced the big lie and the cover-up on what actually happened on 9/11, the 9/11 Commission Report "recommendations" (a group of policies set in advance of the report's writing) call for a single national ID (or rationalization of state IDs, biometrics and a single data base, which amounts to the same thing) and otherwise justify the entire War on Terror, police-state, PATRIOT Act, HomeSec, drone-plane assassination, global-total-surveillance nightmare in place since 9/11. The best, most revealing line in the whole book (except perhaps for the famous bit about how it DOESN'T MATTER WHO PAID FOR 9/11) is surely this: "In this sense, THE AMERICAN HOMELAND IS THE PLANET."

But okay, never mind: usually when people claim to be for the 9/11 Commission Report recommendations it's a nearly sure bet that they have not read any part of the report, let alone the final two chapters.

As for the rest of it, this is what "Democrats" support? What a crock of mediocre, zero-impact ideas. In light of the actual historical moment, I wonder if it even qualifies as moving the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Come back when you're for
1) a living wage for all,
2) single-payer health care on the European model,
3) guarantees for constitutional rights and liberties, an end to Guantanomo
4) the issuance of dollars rather than bonds to cover the federal deficit
5) zero-interest student loans
6) AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE ILLEGAL INVASION OF IRAQ.

Oh, are these too radical to be "electable"? Hardly, you will find majorities in support of 1, 2, 4 (once they understand it) and probably 3 and 6, too. People will finally see a difference between the parties, and a reason to vote for the Democrats. But these are off the acceptable scale for the corporate sponsors of the party that pretends to be "Democratic."

[question everything]

10. I think that the "donut hole" in Medicare needs to be eliminated

Am not on Medicare, yet, but I don't understand the rationale behind having people in a certain income having to pay for prescription. No, not the high earner, but at the middle.

And before the afford ability of college I would put something about health care. Also demand that all employers offer 401K and match 50% of contribution.

It was not until a recent program on PBS, I think, that the history of the 401K was explained.

And something about existing pensions for people over 50. Yes, we all need to save, but if people go through life with a promise of a pension, perhaps give up some salary increase in return, they should not be yanked under them when they are too old to catch up and when the executives doing the yanking to "save the company" themselves are well provided.


K&R