John Kerry speaks out on Meet The Press!
Today on Meet The Press, John Kerry spoke up and out about George Bush, Howard Dean, Iraq and the Economy...
On Bush:
“I disagree with the president’s approach to almost everything he’s doing — almost everything. ... On the budget, he’s favoring the wealthy in America at the expense of the middle class. He has ignored the plight of job loss in America. He has gone backwards on the environment, backwards on cities ... look, we’ve given a tax cut to people while states are being forced to raise taxes and cut services. He’s gone backwards in the international community.”
“I don’t believe he’s offering the kind of leadership our country needs,” said the senator, who said he knew Bush when they were both students at Yale University.
“I am appalled by the lack of his agenda, by the lack of direction, by the lack of leadership, by the lack of willingness to show a vision that takes America to a better place, by his willingness to divide America, to use the politics of wedge, of driving between people, like the Michigan case, or calling things quotas that aren’t quotas, or beginning to — or appointing judges who are ideological, who want to take away the right of privacy, take away the right to choose, someone who wants to pack the court system of America, someone who doesn’t do the hard work of bringing Congress to the table, and helping to lead us to find the common ground.”
On Dean:
“For governors, Howard Dean has zero experience in international affairs. This is a moment to make America safer, stronger and more secure. And I have years of experience in helping to do that. ... This is a time for tested leadership for America, and I believe that my foreign policy leadership through the years is what the country needs.”
On Foreign Assistance in Iraq:
Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, said that, while he believed that no more American troops should be committed to the war in Iraq, the United States should commit to add to the cost of fighting the war, currently estimated at about $4 billion a month.
“I think we should increase it,” Kerry said responding to a question from Russert. “By whatever number of billions of dollars it takes to win. It is critical that the United States of America be successful in Iraq ... And it is essential that we also recognize what’s happening to the military of the United States of America. Our reserves are overextended. Families are being hurt badly in the United States. People are going from one deployment to another. We can’t have a military that is stretched as thin as the one we have today,” he said.
"I do not want more American troops in Iraq. I want foreign troops, and I think this administration has made an extraordinary, disastrous decision not to bring the United Nations in in a significant way. I have said repeatedly that we must go to the United Nations, we must internationalize this effort. We have to reduce the sense of American occupation, we have to take the target off of American troops, we have to maximize the capacity for success, and we should go to the United Nations and do that, and tomorrow morning is not too early."
On the Economy:
Kerry expressed concerns about the prospects for the national economy in the wake of last week’s estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of a projected deficit of $480 billion in 2004, $341 billion in 2005, and the likelihood of a deficit of almost $1.4 trillion during the next decade.
“I want to roll back this bum-rushed, fast tax cut that Bush is trying to rush in so that he can argue that we’re raising taxes,” Kerry said. “I think we ought to have health care for every American, and I have a plan to do it, to be precise. ... We ought to fully fund special-needs education. We ought to fund Title I.”
When challenged by moderator Tim Russert on the incompatibility of funding new programs in the face of a still-spiraling deficit, Kerry was upbeat.
“I’m going to cut the deficit in half in the first four years,” he said. “I’m going to do exactly what Bill Clinton did. And if you liked the economy under Bill Clinton, America, you’re going to love it under John Kerry.”
In my honorable opinion America will love a lot under John Kerry!
Today on Meet The Press, John Kerry spoke up and out about George Bush, Howard Dean, Iraq and the Economy...
On Bush:
“I disagree with the president’s approach to almost everything he’s doing — almost everything. ... On the budget, he’s favoring the wealthy in America at the expense of the middle class. He has ignored the plight of job loss in America. He has gone backwards on the environment, backwards on cities ... look, we’ve given a tax cut to people while states are being forced to raise taxes and cut services. He’s gone backwards in the international community.”
“I don’t believe he’s offering the kind of leadership our country needs,” said the senator, who said he knew Bush when they were both students at Yale University.
“I am appalled by the lack of his agenda, by the lack of direction, by the lack of leadership, by the lack of willingness to show a vision that takes America to a better place, by his willingness to divide America, to use the politics of wedge, of driving between people, like the Michigan case, or calling things quotas that aren’t quotas, or beginning to — or appointing judges who are ideological, who want to take away the right of privacy, take away the right to choose, someone who wants to pack the court system of America, someone who doesn’t do the hard work of bringing Congress to the table, and helping to lead us to find the common ground.”
On Dean:
“For governors, Howard Dean has zero experience in international affairs. This is a moment to make America safer, stronger and more secure. And I have years of experience in helping to do that. ... This is a time for tested leadership for America, and I believe that my foreign policy leadership through the years is what the country needs.”
On Foreign Assistance in Iraq:
Kerry, a Vietnam veteran, said that, while he believed that no more American troops should be committed to the war in Iraq, the United States should commit to add to the cost of fighting the war, currently estimated at about $4 billion a month.
“I think we should increase it,” Kerry said responding to a question from Russert. “By whatever number of billions of dollars it takes to win. It is critical that the United States of America be successful in Iraq ... And it is essential that we also recognize what’s happening to the military of the United States of America. Our reserves are overextended. Families are being hurt badly in the United States. People are going from one deployment to another. We can’t have a military that is stretched as thin as the one we have today,” he said.
"I do not want more American troops in Iraq. I want foreign troops, and I think this administration has made an extraordinary, disastrous decision not to bring the United Nations in in a significant way. I have said repeatedly that we must go to the United Nations, we must internationalize this effort. We have to reduce the sense of American occupation, we have to take the target off of American troops, we have to maximize the capacity for success, and we should go to the United Nations and do that, and tomorrow morning is not too early."
On the Economy:
Kerry expressed concerns about the prospects for the national economy in the wake of last week’s estimate by the Congressional Budget Office of a projected deficit of $480 billion in 2004, $341 billion in 2005, and the likelihood of a deficit of almost $1.4 trillion during the next decade.
“I want to roll back this bum-rushed, fast tax cut that Bush is trying to rush in so that he can argue that we’re raising taxes,” Kerry said. “I think we ought to have health care for every American, and I have a plan to do it, to be precise. ... We ought to fully fund special-needs education. We ought to fund Title I.”
When challenged by moderator Tim Russert on the incompatibility of funding new programs in the face of a still-spiraling deficit, Kerry was upbeat.
“I’m going to cut the deficit in half in the first four years,” he said. “I’m going to do exactly what Bill Clinton did. And if you liked the economy under Bill Clinton, America, you’re going to love it under John Kerry.”
In my honorable opinion America will love a lot under John Kerry!
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