Hillary's Formula For 2006

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Anybody should be able to do better than the tax cut and spend conservatives in the midterm elections, why only Democrats?

Saving The American Dream Bold Ideas for America's Future
EDITOR'S NOTE by Peter Ross Range
SAVING THE AMERICAN DREAM by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Tom Carper, and Gov. Tom Vilsack For the first time ever, we've had four straight years of rising productivity and falling incomes. Americans are earning less, while the costs of a middle-class life have soared: In the past five years, college costs are up 50 percent, health care 73 percent, and gasoline more than 100 percent. ...... Every American should have the opportunity and responsibility to go to college and earn a degree, and to get the lifelong training they need........ Every worker should have the opportunity and responsibility to save for a secure retirement. ....... Every business should have the opportunity to grow and prosper in the strongest private economy on Earth, and the responsibility to equip workers with the same tools of success as management....... Every individual should have the opportunity and responsibility to start building wealth from day one, and the security and community that come from owning a home. ...... Every family should have the opportunity to afford health insurance for their children, and the responsibility to obtain it. ...... Of all the aspirations that make up the American Dream, perhaps the most important is the opportunity to go to college. ...... make it possible for any student willing to work part-time or perform community service to go to college for four years tuition-free. ..... The pillars of the American Dream -- a college degree, a home, a secure retirement, and the chance to get ahead in a growing economy -- are central to our basic values....... The U.S., which used to rank 1st in the world in the percentage of young people with a post-secondary degree, has fallen to 7th. ...... Earlier this year, the president signed a budget reconciliation bill that slashed financial assistance by $12.7 billion, the largest cut in college aid in history. We need a bold new plan -- fully paid for by cutting wasteful corporate subsidies to make college affordable again ...... in July 1862, Abraham Lincoln and the national government gave states land grants to build the finest public college system on earth........ About 70 percent of Americans own their home. About 85 percent have health care. An estimated 42 percent own retirement accounts. But only about 30 percent have achieved the dream that can do the most to make other dreams possible and put other worries to rest -- a college degree...... Over the past three decades, virtually all economic and income gains have gone to college graduates. ...... The income gap between college graduates and high school graduates has more than doubled since 1980. College graduates now earn nearly twice as much as high school graduates -- an extra $20,000 per year....... For today's 22-year-old, a college degree means a million-dollar bonus over the course of a career........ About 9 million students attend 4-year colleges full-time, roughly two-thirds of them at public institutions. Each year, approximately 1.4 million of those students graduate -- 900,000 from public institutions, 500,000 from private ones. About 500,000 students a year drop out of 4-year colleges....
WINNING THE FUTURE by Thomas Z. Freedman, Nick Gossen, and Ed Gerrish
DEMOCRATIZING CAPITALISM by Austan Goolsbee
PROVEN FORMULA by Al From and Bruce Reed

Plus Points

1. This is as close to the "Contract" as anything any Democrat has proposed.
2. There are many specifics. That is good.
3. The emphasis on education is great.
   

Minus Points

1. The document is blank on foreign policy. That is a huge drag. The idea should be to compare the Long War to the Cold War and suggest spreading democracy the progressive way all across the Arab world is the way to win. And that military action should be limited, focused and smarter when absolutely necessary.
   
2. There is not enough attack on the Republicans. The tax cut and spend and bankrupt the country neocons.
   
3. The DLC no longer represents the "center" that elected Bill Clinton in 1992. It has stayed where it was, the ground below has shifted. The DLC has not been able to engulf the strong progressive trend that has been brewing within the party, namely the netroots and the grassroots. The DLC will have to reinvent itself if it hopes to play a major role.
4. There is no talk of the possibilities of reducing education costs by use of information technology.
   

This is a good plan, but it is incomplete.

In The News

Hillary Clinton assails Bush People's Daily Online, China ..... skyrocketing gas, college and health care costs...... "It's the American dream, stupid" ...... the "American Dream Initiative," a package of proposals aimed at strengthening the middle class and helping the poor work their way out of poverty. The group considers the 20-page document an agenda Democrats can unite behind as they seek to win control of the House and Senate this fall and the White House in 2008..... The document focuses on domestic issues Clinton Releases Proposals to Help the Middle Class New York Times, United States divisions in the Democratic Party on full display nationwide ..... a broad policy platform geared toward helping middle-class voters and the working poor through a series of tax credits and other modest government programs...... Mrs. Clinton’s 20-page plan was the culmination of a yearlong project she led at the Democratic Leadership Council ...... Mrs. Clinton has gone much further than Mr. Lieberman in criticizing the management of the war in Iraq ....... a $3,000 college tax credit; “baby bonds” that would deliver a $500 savings bond to every child at birth and age 10; an expansion of the home mortgage tax deduction to low-income people who do not itemize their tax returns; and “American dream accounts” requiring companies with five or more employees to provide traditional retirement benefits or the option for workers to save through 401(k) accounts.
Hillary Clinton: 'It's the American dream, stupid' CNN
Hillary Clinton Outlines Agenda Hartford Courant
Hillary Clinton accuses Bush of driving USA to bankruptcy Dominican Today
Hillary Clinton: She's Ready For Her Close-Up Now Post Chronicle
Sen. Hillary Clinton Robbed The Conservative Voice, NC
If Hillary Clinton Wins the Oval Office in ‘08 National Ledger, AZ
Hillary Clinton And Bill Duplicity Continues Into The 21st Century Post Chronicle
Hillary Clinton And The Middle Class National Journal, DC
On Values, DLCers Have The Tactics, But Not The Strategy National Journal
The Democrats (Re)Discover Class National Journal
Hillary Clinton Campaign Army Swells To 50 Staffers, 20 ... All Headline News
Hillary Understands The Importance Of Image The Moderate Voice
Hillary's $6,000 Beauty Sessions NewsMax.com
Help Me Straighten This Out Wizbang
Why is Clinton campaigning for Lieberman? AlterNet, CA
Who Cares What Mrs. Clinton Says? RushLimbaugh.com (subscription)
Poll: Giuliani would win matchup against Hillary Clinton Kansas City Star, MO
Note to Media: Preregistration Required for Hillary Clinton and ... International News Service, Australia

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