USA Today has a preview of the Democratic Agenda going into the 2006 midterm elections, and some highlights about specific plans the Democratic Party has when it takes control of the House and possibly the Senate this fall. Among them:
- Enacting recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and boosting national security funding
- Grant authority to the secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower prescription-drug prices with pharmaceutical companies for those in Medicare’s drug program
- Increase the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15
- Eliminating about $18 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for oil companies
- Cutting student-loan interest rates by half
Protecting American Security, lowering health care costs, providing a living wage, eliminating tax breaks for big oil, and lowering the cost of higher education all sound pretty good to me… It’s the exact opposite of what’s been happening in this country for the past five years as real wages have fallen, national security funding has been wasted, big tax breaks have gone to the oil companies and richest 1%, and higher education and health care costs have skyrocketed.
Another hole shot in the Republican talking points about ‘Democrats not having any direction’.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
awesome…now, we just need someone…anyone in the MSM to cover this. The Dems need to shout this from the rooftops…to get on every talk show, hostile or not, and say, “we have a plan.”
How about the democrats showing some real leadership and actually cut our defense spending. The US spends about as much on defense as the rest of the world combined. That is just crazy. The money can be much better spent on other things.