Kerry Vows to Fight for Middle Class

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20041011/ap_on_el_pr/kerry

SANTA FE, N.M. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) promised to work for the middle class and energy independence, as he landed in this closely divided southwestern state to prepare for the last presidential debate.


Setting the stage for his third and final face-to-face meeting with President Bush (news - web sites) on Wednesday, focusing on domestic issues, Kerry told a small crowd in Albuquerque on Sunday that Bush worked for the special interests, not their interests.


"The president makes his choices," Kerry said. "The president's chosen the oil companies and the power companies. He's chosen the drug companies over you.


"When I'm president, I'm fighting for the middle class in America."

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[Kierkegaard]

1. I love how he keeps slipping in 'when I'm president.'

Saweeeeeeeet.

[izzie]

2. He had better as it made this country rich and great.

We used every ones brains not just the 5% ON TOP THAT INTER BREED.

[RainDog]

3. how about a living wage, all you politicians?

it makes me sick that wages in this nation are so low, that the ratio between CEOs and workers is something like 400 to 1, while other democracies can have rich people without the economic rape that goes on in America.

it's disgusting that CEOs get to have family members on boards who then vote for the pay raises (stockholders generally don't have a direct say, they vote via proxy).

if workers were to suggest that their family members should get to decide the salary their company paid them, people would think that's crazy.

but it's okay for a CEO?

even when that CEO is a crook, or a failure, or a waste of the company's resources.

THE basic issue is that wages have not kept pace with inflation, nor have they kept pace with the outrageous compensation CEOs make sure they have.

combined with a ridiculous inheritance lack of tax, this nation, more and more, resembles the sort of hierarchy of pre-revolutionary France, rather than a democracy.

reform happens either through evolution or revolution. when the rich get so greedy, as they are now, they have two choices. if they choose to refuse to acknowledge the systemic abuse, then they shouldn't complain when they reap the consequences.

I certainly wouldn't like to see such a mess in this nation, but that's the historical truth.

[goodhue]

4. kick for the middle class

and the working class!