John Kerry Addresses American Competitiveness

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John Kerry Addresses American Competitiveness
September 26th, 2005

BOSTON — In remarks today to business leaders at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, Senator John Kerry addressed America’s ability to compete in the global economy. In his remarks, Senator Kerry emphasized that the current approach is only making the U.S. more beholden to countries like China and Saudi Arabia without giving American businesses any advantage in the global race to success. Kerry laid out a national strategy that offers Americans building blocks — skills in science and math, affordable college education and a national research and development strategy — while removing road blocks to competitiveness like soaring energy and high health care costs.

Senator Kerry’s remarks as prepared for delivery follow:

In the last weeks America has experienced the consequences of the failure to heed warning signs of impending or potential disaster. The nation has been painfully reminded of the price we pay - all of us - in lives and in dollars - for waiting too long to address critical challenges that are right before our eyes if we bother to look.

Sometimes these warning signs are so big and bright and alarming that they just can’t be ignored. I’ll never forget as a teenager standing in a field in October of 1957 watching the first man made spacecraft streak across the night sky. The conquest, of course, was Soviet - and while not everyone got to see that unmanned craft pass overhead at 18,000 miles per hour that night - before long every American knew the name Sputnik. We knew we weren’t competing hard enough. We knew we had been caught unprepared. And we knew that failure to maintain our supremacy in science and technology was not simply a blow to our pride and prosperity; it was a blow to our strength and security as a nation in a dangerous world.

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[ginnyinWI]

1. kick

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[The Backlash Cometh]

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3. John Kerry

“And above all, don’t forget the prime directive, the philosopher’s stone, the alpha and omega, the answer to every question: never stop cutting taxes on the wealthiest individuals and the most powerful corporations, come hell or high water, in war as in peace, and in debt as well as in surplus.”

[kerrygoddess]

4. Kerry will give another speech tomorrow

John Kerry Addresses Racial, Economic Disparities in Health Care
September 26th, 2005

Last Monday in his speech at Brown University, John Kerry said, “Over the next weeks I will address some of these choices in detail - choices about national security, the war in Iraq, making our nation more competitive and committing to energy independence.”

Clearly, John Kerry is on a roll… he started with the speech at Brown U, and then he delivered a speech the following day at the ANWR Rally. On Friday he delivered three keynote addresses at the Congressional Black Congress. Today, he delivered a powerful speech on American Competitiveness to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, tomorrow Kerry will be speaking at the National Press Club on a “New initiative will focus on improving health care disparities in America.”

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=689

[kerrygoddess]

5. Kerry planning Iraq Speech

Kerry is working on another speech “laying out a timetable for Iraqis to regain control of their country.”

The speech was the second in a series of administration critiques and Democratic proposals being outlined by Kerry. Last week he focused more extensively on Hurricane Katrina. He said Monday he is preparing another speech laying out a timetable for Iraqis to regain control of their country.

In response to questions from an audience of about 500, Kerry said the nation can only afford to pay for the Iraqi war as well as the cleanup of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita if it forgoes tax cuts the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans are slated to receive next year and also considers a windfall tax on recent oil profits.

http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=692

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6. Kick!

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