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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Edwards on Domestic Issues

If you believe this country needs fundamental change don’t settle for compromise or empty rhetoric. Tell your representatives in Washington that increasing access to healthcare isn’t sufficient. We must demand the same health care that is afforded members of Congress.

John Edwards said it best: “The people who are powerful in Washington - big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies are not going to negotiate. They are not going to give away their power. The only way that they’re going to give away their power is if we take it away from them.”

Those interests are not going to fund the campaigns of honest politicians. They are going to do everything they can to stop politicians, who are ready to make fundamental changes. The country needs leadership that will end the war in Iraq. A leaders ready to take on the insurance companies and HMOs to fight for universal health care. A president eager to take on the oil industry and change our energy policies to end global warming. A person that is committed to taking on the powerful who care about nothing but profits and greed at the expense of working people, the middle class and the poor.

John Edwards says that we a need truly universal health care for every man, woman and child. As president he would move America towards energy independence, by helping our auto industry to build the most innovative, fuel-efficient vehicles on the planet with union workers.

Edwards would reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by the year 2050, by investing in wind, solar, cellulose-based biofuels. He would support the development of carbon capture technology.

Edwards considers New Orleans a national embarrassment and says that we have a responsibility to do something about it, because it says something about the character of our country, how we treat millions of own people. 

He would have personally been there with the people who were struggling and suffering in New Orleans as soon as possible. He would have designated a high-level person in the White House whose job it was to report to him every single day what was accomplished in New Orleans yesterday.

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