Democrats believe the purpose of our government, as stated in the preamble of US Constitution, is to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.Democrats also believe that...
Establishing justice means fair and equitable treatment for *ALL* of the people, not just a wealthy and privileged few.
Ensuring domestic tranquility includes a fair and level playing field and protection from abusive and negligent private industry. It does not include no-bid contracts, price gouging or monopolies.
Providing for the common defense means defending from attack, not waging wars of aggression. It includes building essential levees and not bridges to nowhere. And it means taking better care of our troops than the corporate military industrial complex.
Promoting the general welfare includes health care and education for everyone and the elimination of severe poverty.
Securing the blessings of liberty for our posterity includes balancing the budget, eliminating our debt and protecting the environment. Democrats believe that passing on debt to our children and damaging the environment are direct threats to the general welfare and blessings of liberty for our posterity and are therefore unconstitutional.
The reason Democrats accuse Republicans of stealing from children is because they *ARE* stealing from our children. They have racked up the largest debt in human history to buy things for themselves and they have passed the burden on to our children. That is stealing, plain and simple.
US Senator and Republican, George Allen of Virginia, has supported every greedy and reckless policy of the Republican Bush Administration. Allen calls himself a "Common Sense Jeffersonian Conservative" but Jefferson was an idealist who had an agrarian vision of America and called for the abolition of corporations and for a well-regulated economy where the government protects the people from the abuse of capitalists.
Under a separation of state and economics, especially with laissez-faire capitalism [Free Trade], the state no longer has a role to play in protecting the people and assuring their happiness. Laissez-faire means capitalism is outside the regulatory control of the state and that the people are entirely at the mercy of the capitalists.-- Thomas Jefferson
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. -- Thomas Jefferson
Allen distorts Jefferson's view of "limited government," which was based on the idea that Americans should all become gentlemen farmers. Jefferson was very much against and afraid of the industrial, capitalist, corporate, free trade direction Republicans have led us into because of the potential abuse and suppression of Democracy.
George Allen is more like a P.T. Barnum huckster, who once sold a shipment of canned white salmon by advertising that it was "Guaranteed not to turn pink in the can." Allen has never challenged or objected to anything in the Republican-controlled US Senate, where he says he is bored. It is time to relieve his boredom, to send him packing, and to elect Democrat Jim Webb to represent the people of Virginia.
The government should act like sport referees, who make sure that everyone is following the rules, giving a fair chance to everyone to excel in the game according to their abilities.
The bridge to nowhere is an issue of pork barrel spending not the bridge itself. Democrats should be against pork barrel spending, not bridges. Bridges are good. Investing in levees is an issue of insurance spending, not pumping water out of a city. Democrats should be for spending $1 billion in insurance to save from spending $200 billion from disaster.
Thomas Jefferson believed in fiscal responsibility. George Allen supports massive tax cuts for the wealthy combined with a rapid increase in spending, leaving our children with insurmountable debt.
Thomas Jefferson was against what he called the "monied interests" controlling our politics. Goerge Allen takes big donations from corporate PACs and lobbyists.
If George Allen seriously believes he is standing up for "Jeffersonian Principles", he needs to take remedial American History.
his history is the exact opposite of everything you stated, and ever worse, he was extremely effective
yes, he lost, but you guys have to be less Orwellian if you dont like being called out
These changes need to take place from within a party that has lost its way. This ship needs to be righted and it's up to each of us to EMBODY our deeply held beliefs.
We need to lift up and surround our electeds, so that we can attain both Electoral Victory and Legislative Accountability.
We don't deliver victory, we deliver fights.
We are the party. If you disagree, stand up and say so. That's what this is all about. YOU HAVE THE POWER to effect change, but YOU have to work for it.
We are moving this party in the right direction, and Jim Webb's victory is a wake-up call for Virginia Democrats. It's time for powerful, positive, populist, Progressivism to again fuel the democratic process and the Democratic Party.
Username: RonS
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Created: June 16, 2006 at 09:56:39 EST5EDT
was *your* first post a lie?
dont get me wrong, I posted on many blogs calling out harris miller, and i think many people with tech backgrounds helped webb win - we HATE harris miller, with *good reason*
but truth be told, even though webb couldnt possibly be worse than miller, he was evasive on H-1b
and I'm not going to give him a pass if that continues
here's an article I found that sums it up nicely
my apologies if that was the case
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