Reply #7: Why do you think Dean would change things? [View All]

[Nicholas_J]

He has not record of doing so in the past, As Governor he always was very cautious, never took a fighting stance on anything except balancin the budget by cutting social programs, spent four years evading taking any stance on the court cases that resulted in the Vermont Supreme Court finally dictating that Vermont marriage laws were unconsitutional. Has stated that if you expect changes in the medical insurance industry, he is not your guy. Has a record of promising to do things, and then totally forgetting to do so once he is elected, and this has been stated by Vermont newspaper editors, as well as Vermonmt Sierra Club activists. He talks a good fight but while he was governor, the rich got richer, the poor got poorer, he fought all attempts at setting up progressive taxation, in fact taxes started becoming regressive in Vermont under his economic ideas, when they had become more progressive before he was in office. Many people left the Vermont Democratic Party while Dean was leader of the states party, and this is states as having been caused by Deans conservatism. The very essence of conservatism is resistance to change. Dean is by self admission, conservative.