A few things Democrats didn’t clap for
Did you watch the President give his last State of the Union speech? I did. I thought he was relaxed and presented well. I have the most fun watching to see if one side or the other claps or doesn’t clap when presented the opportunity.
Here are a few things the Democrat side didn’t clap for…
- Making tax relief permanent and not increasing taxes.
- Limiting the number of earmarks in bills.
- Trusting patients and doctors together to make medical decisions, not the government.
- Children grades 4 & 8 achieving the highest math scores in U.S. history.
- African American and Hispanic kids achieving all time high test scores.
- Allowing poor children the opportunity to go to private schools through government grants.
- Free trade agreements with Columbia, Peru and South Korea which would help create new jobs in the US and improve our economy.
- The idea that democracy leads to a better life.
- Helping displaced workers learn new skills to find new jobs.
- The expansion of medical research without the need to destroy human life.
- Empowering judges to uphold the constitution.
- Not delaying decisions by providing up or down votes for judicial nominees.
- Working to defeat al-Qaeda.
- Not allowing ground gained in the war on terror to be lost.
- The Iraqi people taking control of their own future.
- Maintaining the security of our country through intelligence gathering techniques.
Interesting list huh?
Posted by: Vonski | 01-28-2008 | 10:01 PM
Posted in: Politics
Perhaps it’s my middle of the road personality, but I have yet to see an example of free-trade that’s created more jobs in the U.S. Usually what I’ve seen happen is an acceleration of job outsourcing to those same ‘free trade” companies since they tend to have, overall, lower wage rates and items coming back in are no longer subject to tariff. e.g. manufacturing jobs+NAFTA+Mexico.
Not that I’m an expert- I;m not- just personal observations.
You might be right, Raf. The other side of the coin is they’d be new markets to offer our goods to and someone has to be here on our end to export. Some jobs there at least, I guess *shrug*
Not trying to be cynical, but what makes you think that goods from the USA cannot already be sold in those countries?
And if you were buying stock in a company, would you rather buy stock in a company whose cheif good/service is exporting, or a company whose cheif good/service is manufacturing?