Have you visited this site?

[babylonsister]

http://www.nationaldemocraticmessage.net/

They just called me and told me about the Dem's New Direction For America.

I like it, and hope everyone in the country gets that call!

Democrats in Congress offer a New Direction, putting the common good of all Americans first for a change, and will:

LOWER GAS PRICES AND ACHIEVE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Crack down on price gouging; eliminate billions in subsidies for oil and gas companies and use the savings to provide consumer relief and develop American alternatives, including biofuels; promote energy efficient technology.

HELP WORKING FAMILIES
Raise the minimum wage; repeal tax giveaways that encourage companies to move jobs overseas.

CUT COLLEGE COSTS
Make college tuition deductible from taxes; expand Pell grants and cut student loan costs.

ENSURE DIGNIFIED RETIREMENT
Prevent the privatization of Social Security; expand savings incentives; ensure pension fairness.

REQUIRE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
Restore the budget discipline of the 1990s that helped eliminate deficits and spur record economic growth.

Versus:

THE WRONG DIRECTION
The Bush Administration and the Republican Majority in Congress have taken the country in the wrong direction for Americans and their families.

RISING HEALTH CARE COSTS
Under this Administration, the cost of family health insurance has risen more than 70%, or an average of $4,500 per family, and 6 million more Americans are uninsured. Meanwhile, the Majority has enacted a confusing and costly prescription drug benefit that prohibits Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices, has cut funding for medical research, and has prohibited federal funding of a real stem cell research program.

RISING ENERGY PRICES
Gas prices have nearly doubled and exceed $3.00 per gallon in many places, and dependence on foreign oil increased to 60%. Meanwhile, the Republican Majority has blocked efforts to ban price gouging, rewarded oil and gas companies with billions in new subsidies at a time of record profits, and opposed investments in alternative fuels and energy efficient technology.

RISING ECONOMIC INSECURITY
Real family income has fallen every year of the Bush Administration, while CEO compensation has soared. Meanwhile, the Majority has blocked any increase in the minimum wage for 7.5 million workers, while providing billions in corporate tax subsidies that encourage sending jobs overseas.

RISING DEFICITS AND DEBT
The Majority has turned a projected $5.6 trillion budget surplus into a $3.2 trillion budget deficit and put us on course to double our national debt to nearly $12 trillion by 2011.

RISING COLLEGE COSTS
Tuition has increased by $2,000 (57%) at public universities and by $5,000 (32%) at private universities since the 2000-2001 school year. Meanwhile, the Majority has cut $12 billion from college student aid, increasing the costs of loans; has frozen Pell Grants for higher education; and has failed to extend the college tuition tax deduction.

RISING RETIREMENT INSECURITY
The Majority has fought to privatize Social Security, which would have cut benefits for the middle class and added trillions to our debt, and failed to protect workers’ pensions while CEOs receive hundred-million dollar retirement packages.

[Straight Shooter]

1. Stay the course, or a New Direction? Hmmm ... what to do, what to do.

I vote for a New Direction. :)

[DesertRat]

2. I like it! K & R

[nickshepDEM]

3. College tuition hikes are a key to middle class suburban voters...

Martin O'Malley, the democratic nominee for governor in MD, is making this an integral part of his campaign, and its working.

College tuition these days is completely outrageous. Its to the point where most kids are forced to stay home because they cant afford the room and board and out of state tuition prices. Some families cant afford to send there kids at all... either that or take out $30,000 or so in loans (and rates just went up on these babies).

I also truely believe that there is a conspiracy between the states, colleges and universities, and the publishing companies. Every semester a new version of a textbook comes out, which makes the previous edition (only 6 months old) obsolete and that forces students and parents to purchase new books at outrageous prices.

My books this semester totaled over 750 dollars.

[hootinholler]

4. WHEN will they say they will prosecute these assholes?

You know, those felonious PNAC neocon chickenshit posterior sphincters!

-Hoot