I know, I know.
I just told the Kerryiacs how they can woo us.
But I also promised that we'd be transmitters for Kerry to our family and friends.
Remember when we were P2P transmitters for Dean?
Well, that's my suggestion.
Let's focus on our new projects, but let's be transmitters for Kerry; "walking encyclopedias" of his positions is what I called it last night at Meetup.
To get you to read, I'll tell you a Dean story each time. Today is Kerry on Jobs and Economy and Dr. Dean at the Hospital.
Dr Dean at the Hospital:
My wife is a MD/PhD at Mt Sinai. She likes me to accompany her to lab sometimes when there are few other people around. One day, she commented that Dr. Dean would be speaking on Health Care at Sinai in a sorta surprise appearance. So I went up to her lab and did some reading.
We went to go get new ID holders, thinking we would be stopped from meeting him close up. We didn't get new ID holders (security was out of them).
There were some SEIU 1199 members milling around the Madison Ave entrance. Suddenly, as were walking over, a black minivan pulls up with some police cars behind it, and a guy jumps out.
I knew it was Dean.
Grey hair.
Stocky.
Running ahead of everyone else from his car.
My wife said, "No, the security guys would be protecting him."
Nope.
He runs up to the 1199 guys, and then we see his smiling face. Shaking everyone's hand, just running right into the crowd.
Not so many people showed up.
I was so close, but I didn't know what to say, so I just hung back from the front.
He took a tour of the hospital, and then gave his health care plan. The press was pretty bored.
Then, one of them asked if Bush had taken Medicare off the table with his grand plan.
Dean could see that the press was bored, whereas the doctors were awake. So he decided to wake up the entire crowd.
"I don't think this President gives a DAMN about Seniors."
Then he took apart the Medicare plan piece by piece.
Kerry on Jobs and Economy:
Will repeal the Bush tax cuts for those earning 200K or more. Put them back at Clinton rates.
Will put that money into the federal mandates for education and healthcare. No, Medicare doesn't just help old people. It also funds your local hospital for the most part. Schmuckles the Chimp and his evil minions have "Monkeyed" around with the medicare reiumbursement to hospitals. Among other things, this makes it harder for hospitals to pay their fellows (beyond resident but before attending). Less fellows means less specialists means harder for you to get specialty care in 20 years. We need more GPs, but this isn't the way to do it.
Kerry has adopted Dean and Gephardt's proposals for the Apollo Energy project. Jobs will be created by investing in new technologies.
Kerry will also give manufacturing firms in the USA a tax credit IF they invest profits back into increasing the payroll. Stay here, hire here, and benefit.
Meanwhile, if you move jobs or profits offshore, you lose your tax credits. All the Benedict Arnold CEOs in the world can give money to Kerry, but if he doesn't do as they want, it's money wasted. And they waste a lot of money at corrupt corporations ... Dennis Kozlowski and the Peeing David Ice Sculpture, anyone? Of course, if their donations confuse and demoralize you, then it's money well spent. Waste their money. Look at the man's plan. Bush has the reverse tax plan.
And he'll put teeth back into the SEC and the labor rights enforcement agencies. That's something a President can easily do.
And he wants to investigate market timing and fees at mutual funds. Boring? Yes. Important? Yes. It's for the investor class, but it is important corporate oversight and basic fairness. And it's a lot more likely that you will have 100 shares of JP Morgan Chase someday than ever benefit from Bush's tax cuts net-net.
So, thus endeth this installment.
I would be interested if Roy Moore or Ralph Nader supporters would post the platforms of their guys on these issues, so long as they have this level of specifics.
Next time, Dr. Dean in the park and more from Kerry on education.