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By All Means, Give Us the Democrat Changes
From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 12/12/07 | Purple Mountains

Posted on 12/12/2007 8:33:50 AM PST by PurpleMountains

On Tuesday night former Representative Harold Ford, now chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, said that Democrats would win in 2008 “because the country needs a change”. That got me wondering just what changes the Democrats would have in mind for us if they won.

Since the Bush policies led us out of the Clinton recession of 2000 and also the post 9/11 crash, and resulted in seven years of growth, prosperity and record-breaking, continuous low unemployment, would the Democrat changes reverse this record? Or how about the trillion dollar tax increase that the Chairman of the Democrat-controlled Ways and Means Committee is talking about? Does the change Ford means include reversing the Bush tax cuts – including the new lower rates on capital gains and the elimination of taxes on smaller estates?

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: davidbroder; georgebush; haroldford; nancypelosi

1 posted on 12/12/2007 8:33:53 AM PST by PurpleMountains
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To: PurpleMountains

It might be just me, I’m 61 years old and was mainly of the Independent party for most of my voting years. I changed to Republican after the hanging Chad thing. I’ll get to the point I’m replying to, “Because the country needs a change” thing. Again, is it just me or myself or have I heard this every election by all parties.


2 posted on 12/12/2007 10:46:47 AM PST by Revski
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