Krugman is getting close to the edge

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105. I disagree.

"the average voter rejects the center-left view of our economic situation"

When polled independently ON THE ISSUES, The vast majority of American voters (Democrats & Republicans) AGREE with the Left's Economic view.

Here is what the MAJORITY of Americans (Democrats AND Republicans) want from OUR government!

In recent polls 2005!!! by the Pew Research Group, the Opinion Research Corporation, the Wall Street Journal, and CBS News, the American majority has made clear how it feels. Look at how the majority feels about some of the issues that you'd think would be gospel to a real Democratic Party:

1. 65 percent (of ALL Americans, Democrats AND Republicans) say the government should guarantee health insurance for everyone -- even if it means raising taxes.

2. 86 percent favor raising the minimum wage (including 79 percent of selfdescribed "social conservatives&quot .

3. 60 percent favor repealing either all of Bush's tax cuts or at least those cuts that went to the rich.

4. 66 percent would reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.

5. 77 percent believe the country should do "whatever it takes" to protect the environment.

6. 87 percent think big oil corporations are gouging consumers, and 80 percent (including 76 percent of Republicans) would support a windfall profits tax on the oil giants if the revenues went for more research on alternative fuels.

7. 69 percent agree that corporate offshoring of jobs is bad for the U.S. economy (78 percent of "disaffected" voters think this), and only 22% believe offshoring is good because "it keeps costs down."

http://alternet.org/story/29788/

8. Over 63% oppose the War on the Iraqi People.

9. 92% of ALL Americans support TRANSPARENT, VERIFIABLE elections!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x446445

The American People AGREE,
So where is the disconnect?

1) The disconnect happens in the Corporate Owned Media (both Left & Right) who force the national dialog into the very narrow gap on Economic Policy between the two Dominant Parties. NOBODY who calls for a return to the Tried & True successful Economic Policies of the 60s that built the biggest, wealthiest, and most Upwardly Mobile Middle/Working Class the WORLD has ever seen is allowed ANY oxygen or exposure. These people are simply NOT allowed on TV by either the Right or the (supposedly) Left outlets.

2) The Democratic Party's Inability (or unwillingness) to barnstorm America and actually SELL these Economic Policies in easy to understand English, a la Huey Long.

The Marketing Program for Health Care Reform was designed to fail.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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