Kerry's plan helps Americans

Don't let Republicans fool you...

Published on September 15, 2004 By Calor In Democrat

If and when Kerry wins the election, the world will not come to an end as some right-wingers seem to think.

Kerry's positions are fairly straight forward unless you're a Republican where it all gets fuzzy. I think that's a result of putting ones hands over ones ears and yelling "I can't hear you!"

Kerry on Iraq: Work harder to internationalize the situation and with a better team is likely to get more international support. Then begin a phased pull-out of American forces over the course of the next few years. Democracy in Iraq is a laudable goal but it isn't a requirement for success.

Kerry on taxes: Will cut taxes on all businesses by 5% and repeal the Bush tax cuts only on those who make $200,000 or more. By doing this we will decrease the skyrocketing national debt.

Kerry on Health care: Will work to decrease health costs by pressuring insurance providers to lower their premiums. At the same time, will allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from anywhere (such as Canada). Will raise the bar on who can qualify for medicare help.

Kerry on the War on Terror: Will fight a more pragmatic war by protecting us at home and not send us off on needless adventures. Will focus on eliminating terrorists instead of launching into more "preemptive" follies like Iraq was.

These aren't spookey. These aren't wobbly. These are issues that most Americans agree with.

Comments (Page 1)

Molly0597

on Sep 15, 2004

Exactly. Thank you. and for anyone who doesn't know this already, or still claims that Kerry makes 'empty promises', he and Edwards published a 200-some page book with a detailed plan of what Kerry will accomplish if elected.

CrispE

on Sep 15, 2004

Calor:

You mean Health Secretary Crawford's statement that Al Qaeda would use reimported drugs from Canada to terrorize Americans isn't true? I mean, whom can I trust??

J/K!

drmiler

on Sep 15, 2004

quote]Kerry's plan helps Americans

By: Calor
Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 on Sanity from the Left
Message Board: Democrat
If and when Kerry wins the election, the world will not come to an end as some right-wingers seem to think.
Kerry's positions are fairly straight forward unless you're a Republican where it all gets fuzzy. I think that's a result of putting ones hands over ones ears and yelling "I can't hear you!"
Kerry on Iraq: Work harder to internationalize the situation and with a better team is likely to get more international support. Then begin a phased pull-out of American forces over the course of the next few years. Democracy in Iraq is a laudable goal but it isn't a requirement for success.
Kerry on taxes: Will cut taxes on all businesses by 5% and repeal the Bush tax cuts only on those who make $200,000 or more. By doing this we will decrease the skyrocketing national debt.
Kerry on Health care: Will work to decrease health costs by pressuring insurance providers to lower their premiums. At the same time, will allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from anywhere (such as Canada). Will raise the bar on who can qualify for medicare help.
Kerry on the War on Terror: Will fight a more pragmatic war by protecting us at home and not send us off on needless adventures. Will focus on eliminating terrorists instead of launching into more "preemptive" follies like Iraq was.
These aren't spookey. These aren't wobbly. These are issues that most Americans agree with.

That is a BIG "if"!!![

Anthony R

on Sep 15, 2004

I hate to break this to you but I think hes a gonner

Castle

on Sep 15, 2004

I hate to break this to you but I think hes a gonner

Yeah........I would agree. The funny part about it is (or sad part depending on your politics) Kerry blew himself out of the water. I wonder if he can sqeeze another purple heart out of this? Sorry, I couldn't resist

In all seriousness, All his hard left buddies are only helping him commit political suicide and "memo-gate" is just one more nail in the coffin (if not the last).

Sorry Calor. In this election, The democrats - try as they may - aren't going to fool me.

messybuu

on Sep 15, 2004

Why is it that Kerry is only going to repeal the tax cut for those making over 200,000 dollars? Wouldn't it help decrease the debt if he repealed it for everybody? Since the non-wealthy didn't benefit as much from the tax cut, they wouldn't be as harmed by the repeal of it.

mindlar

on Sep 15, 2004

Where exactly is Kerry going to get support from for Iraq that isn't already helping? France, Russia, and Germany won't be signing up any time soon regardless of who wins the election.

I'm not going to comment on the taxes. I believe that repealing the tax cuts for the "wealthy" is a mistake, but that is largely because I don't think it will help with the debt as much as give Kerry a reason to push through more spending.

How will pressuring insurance providers to lower premiums keep the insurance providers in business without causing more doctors to leave the field because they can no longer afford to make a living? It appears to be similar the arguments for raising the minimum wage will have no effect on the availability of jobs that pay minimum wage. (I've seen the effect at the local McDonalds from the raising of the minimum wage over the last 10 years, there used to be about 10 people working behind the counters, now just 4-5 at the same time of day)

Reimporting drugs I can agree with, though probably for different reasons. Reimporting drugs will give the drug companies leverage to raise prices in other countries so that US consumers are not the only ones paying for the R&D costs of new drugs. Either that, or the drug companies will stop developing new drugs because they cannot recoup their costs for R&D in which case this will be an unmitigated disaster for those of us that are still living in 10-20 years.

I could easily be wrong about anything I said above. Please feel free to point me to data that proves anything I said wrong.

Champas Socialist

on Sep 16, 2004

Quite frankly, I don't care who you elect. Elect Arnie if you want. Just as long as it ain't Bush. I believe that my own country would not have gone to war in Iraq if it weren't for Bush's idea. And had we not gone to war on Iraq, a recent bomb attack might have been prevented and Al-Qaeda might not have promised to bathe Australia in blood.

No matter how bad Kerry may be, he will have the entire Democrat team behind him. He cannot screw the country up that badly with the Dems behind him.

RATM4EVA

on Sep 16, 2004

I hate to break this to you but I think hes a gonner

That's what Howard Dean thought.

Zod

on Sep 16, 2004

Trying to reduce health costs by pressuring insurance companies to reduce premiums is like trying to reduce your restaurant tab by pressuring your credit card company to bill you less. You want lower restaurant tabs, you need to focus on ways to increase the efficiency and reduce the costs of food and food preparation.

drmiler

on Sep 16, 2004

Reply #8 By: Champas Socialist - 9/16/2004 4:11:14 AM
Quite frankly, I don't care who you elect. Elect Arnie if you want. Just as long as it ain't Bush. I believe that my own country would not have gone to war in Iraq if it weren't for Bush's idea. And had we not gone to war on Iraq, a recent bomb attack might have been prevented and Al-Qaeda might not have promised to bathe Australia in blood.

No matter how bad Kerry may be, he will have the entire Democrat team behind him. He cannot screw the country up that badly with the Dems behind him

You don't know how badly he can screw it up! You obviously don't live here so do NOT tell us who we can or can't put in the oval office!

Cosmic Fox

on Sep 16, 2004

Kerry has a solid plan for resolving things where Bush is following another Agenda.. A Neo-Conservative one which does not put America first. All anyone has to do is NOT believe what you read or see. Investigate and research it for yourself. Do not stop at oh my God Kerry voted no on defense bill? Find out why he did, read the truth on his stance on the Iraq war. There are facts and there is political spin being used to discredit a good man because this is how classic politics work. If your opponent is strong on many issues turn those issues against him. Discredit him with negative ads staying away from the issues. Now Bush is running on the same ridiculous platform as 2000. It is all about perception not reality. If Bush was a good man for the job I would not be bad mouthing him. The facts are he is the worst sitting president this country has ever had.

jesusstayscrunchy

on Sep 16, 2004

Work harder to internationalize the situation and with a better team is likely to get more international support.

I want to see a Kerry plan that keeps the situation just as it is now. I don't want pipe-dreams about "international support." We should assume that there will be no other countries willing to jump on this sinking ship. I'm all for soliciting international help, but I want to hear his plan if that fails.

Despite all that, I'm still going to vote for the guy.

WiseFawn

on Sep 16, 2004

Great article.

The facts are he is the worst sitting president this country has ever had.

Ain't it the truth.

Lee1776

on Sep 16, 2004

Democracy in Iraq is a laudable goal but it isn't a requirement for success.

OK, lets just let them become another dictatorship or Fundamentalist State. Then you can complain later why we didn't stop the countless other people who will die inside of our country and outside due to the fact that we cut and run leaving the country to descend into Civil War.

Work harder to internationalize the situation and with a better team is likely to get more international support

Politicians from both Germany and France have publicly stated that they would NOT send troops no matter who is in office.
Anyway the last time the French sent in troops anywhere was Rwanda, look what happened there.

Will work to decrease health costs by pressuring insurance providers to lower their premiums.

Think one minute, please. How many insurance companies will have to close their door? I'm not defending them by far, I hate them. But if a business must pay an extra $1000.00 on each claim filed, how will they keep the insurance industry afloat? They must make up the money somewhere. We complain about not having enough Doctors and health providers now, then we will have to complain about not being able to find insurance companies that can provide half the coverage that they do now.

To lower premiums will lower coverage. The insurance company that will not close up, will have to keep their bottom line somewhere. They are in business to make money, if they don't they are not in business.

This is also the guy keep saying that the Government should handle health care. I don't see anything in his plan showing that.

allow Americans to buy prescription drugs from anywhere (such as Canada).

For a man who complains about sending jobs to other countries, it seems strange for him to be sending thousands of high paying pharmaceutical jobs elsewhere. Anyway mindlar in the post above is right. The pharmaceutical Companies will just have to raise the cost to subcontractors in other countries very fast. In the end the price will not change much. Only to non-Americans that will love us for that, right?

You complain about people closing their ears about Kerry's plans. We have listened, but what we hear is things that will do more harm then good. Maybe you should open your eyes and see that what he has put forward. It sounds great on a sound byte, but in the real world that most people live in, it will not work.

The only thing Kerry is a bunch of sound bytes that sound great, but aren’t.

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