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Edited on Sun Aug-20-06 09:00 PM by Ken Burch
This is my proposal for what Democratic progressives should call ourselves. We represent mainstream majority opinion on taxes, foreign policy, health care and social justice.
The New Center calls for the country to be defended against external attacks, but not uncontrolled military adventurism.
The New Center calls for an economy with business playing an important part, but not the only part that matters.
The New Center protects the forgotten middle class with universal health care and a trade policy that doesn't force working people here and working people in other countries to compete in a race to the bottom. An economy that benefits those who create the wealth from below, not those who steal it from above.
The New Center tough on crime and on the causes of crime(and, unlike Tony Blair, we mean it about the causes). If we end poverty and the "war on drugs" we end two-thirds of the crime right there. The rest is in the nation's corporate boardrooms.
The New Center calls for a clean environment and for a real effort to create green jobs. We will make sure no one has to choose between eating or breathing.
These are broad strokes, but I think this could work. Whaddya think, campers?
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