Last night I heard John Edwards promise that they had a plan to solve all of our worldly problems. He's going to reform health care and bring down the costs, although his kind of lawyering is what caused high malpractice premiums and high costs to begin with.
Edwards promised that he and Kerry would create more jobs, stop tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, raise the minimum wage, expand access to health care, lower health insurance premiums and reorient the tax code to help working Americans. "We're going to reward work, not just wealth," he said.
Private companies create jobs and the reason they are going overseas is because they're tired of government regulations and strangulations. Clinton promised in 1992 that he was going to give the people a middle class tax cut. He had 8 years to do so and 6 years with a Congress that was all for the idea. Even when the budget deficit became a surplus, Clinton couldn't bring himself to lower taxes. On the other hand, John Edwars has proved by his actions that rich people can and will get out of the taxes regardless of tax rates. We're better off with lower marginal rates for everyone than the fiction that we're soaking the rich.
I found his proposal to raise minimum wage interesting when he complains that a family cannot sustain itself on minimum wage. Even if we doubled minimum wage, Democrats could make the same points about people barely sustaining themselves, so why even bother to raise it? The better question that Democrats never ask is, "Why are people choosing to start families when they do not have the skills in order to provide for them?" Many of my friends that make a decent living are childless or started having kids later once they began earning enough money to pay for them. Should people who are sacrificing in their own lives feel sorry for people who won't?
The biggest laugh of the night came when John Edwards says we should ask the people who served with John Kerry whether or not they trust him. Of course, he has a small core of people he parades around verifying his heroism. What's not given attention is the much bigger group that doesn't like him. Now his fellow commanders have come out against his campaign.
Republicans "are doing all they can to take this campaign for the highest office in the land down the lowest possible road," he said. "This is where you come in. Between now and November, you -- the American people -- you can reject the tired, old, hateful, negative politics of the past. And instead you can embrace the politics of hope, the politics of what's possible, because this is America, where everything is possible."Democrats have had a field day bashing Bush for months and now they tell us they want to unite America. Let's get something cleared up right now. America is going to remain divided regardless of who wins the election. The two Americas will continue because no election is going to change how people think.
Some people think that we have to go to war to fight terrorism and the other side cannot abide by the casualties that result from it. It doesn’t' matter that we've uncovered Sarin Gas or Mustard Gas, half the country clings to the idea that there were no WMD. It's been said enough times now that no amount of actual evidence will change anyone's mind -- not even the media's. The Left needed a way to oppose Bush and when the evidence of WMD didn't immediately turn up it became their reason to stamp the war as illegitimate. When they couldn't find a letter from Saddam Hussein wishing Osama Bin Laden Godspeed in his plans to hit the World Trade Center the Left's conclusion was that there were no links between the two powers despite a preponderance of evidence to the contrary. This also became a black mark on Bush although he was less worried about direct connections and more focused on the fact that both powers were supporting terrorists. Discoveries of suicide bomber vests in Baghdad after the fall never got the kind of attention from the media that it deserved.
Neither of these politicians can unite these two sides. If Bush wins, half the country will be convinced he’s leading us to peril. If Kerry wins, half the country will be convinced that he isn’t serious about fighting the war. The Two Americas will continue.
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