Democrats Vow to Cut Deficit by 50% in Four Years

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BELOIT, Wis., Aug. 3 -- Seeking to exploit a budget deficit that has ballooned under President Bush, John F. Kerry pledged Tuesday to restore fiscal discipline in Washington as he barnstormed through small towns in southern Wisconsin.

"We have to get back to being fiscally responsible," the Massachusetts senator told an enthusiastic audience in an old hockey arena. "Here's the pledge that John Edwards and I have made: We've laid out a plan that will help us reduce the deficit in half over the first four years of our administration."

On the fifth day of his trip across the country, Kerry offered his most detailed look at how he hopes to reduce the deficit while at the same time enacting a major expansion in health care coverage, assuring middle-class Americans a continuation of the tax cuts they have received under Bush, boosting spending on education and the environment, and giving state and local governments direct assistance.

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Just before Edwards arrived at the old state capitol, the Bush campaign sent an e-mail to reporters alerting them that "more than 1,000 Bush supporters" would be on hand; 48 made it, and they shouted as Edwards spoke. "Don't worry," he quipped. "They'll stop in a minute."

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. And Bush will spend the time between now and January 20 . . .

. . . making that goal even more difficult to achieve.

[noahmijo]

2. This will NOT happen unless we take back Congress

A repuke controlled congress will strike down any measure to repeal the tax cuts for the wealthiest.

Much of the investments Kerry wants to take on depends on these cuts and other closing of corporate loopholes.

If the repukes get their way, next thing you know Kerry will be labled as a "promise breaker" in either he will fail to cut the deficit in half, or he will cut the deficit in half by not adequtely funding the measures of his campaign (NCLB, Healthcare, ect)

TAKING BACK THE CONGRESS IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS ELECTING KERRY THIS YEAR