My comment on John Kerry's book on A Call To Service was delayed until President Bush spoke at the Republican Party convention on 9/03/04. At the convention, President Bush presented over 15 vote-getting initiatives that would be offered in his second term. Based on Bush's speech and Kerry's book, these two men are as different as night and day. But this difference can be seen in Kerry's well written book, which shows the basic difference between the Republican Party and Democratic Party.
This basic difference has its origin in the two principles that Abe Lincoln used to declare the Civil War. One principle is "freedom" and the other is "union." Lincoln gave freedom to all Americans with the Emancipation Proclamation. And, Lincoln held the union together as the USA, just as the Constitution mandated government to "to form a more perfect Union." Kerry's book shows that Republicans are working only for freedom but that Democrats are working for both freedom and union.
Thus, it is clear that the purpose of governmental spending (or taxing) by a Democratic administration is to expand freedom and perfect the USA. Examples of the perfection of the union are FDR's New Deal, Truman's Marshall Plan, LBJ's Great Society, JFK's high technology space program/Cold War, and Clinton's Third Way globalization. And, it is also clear that the purpose of governmental spending (or taxing) by a Republican administration is to expand freedom and support a trickle-down economy. But, such an economy does not work. ( See report by Kennickell, Arthur B. and R. Louise Woodburn (April 1992) "Estimation of Household net Worth Using Model-Based and design-Based Weights: Evidence from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances;" and Kennickell, Arthur B., Douglas A. McManus, and R. Louise Woodburn (March 1996) "Weighting Design for the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances;" Washington, D.C.: Federal Reserve System.) This report shows that tax-cuts for the rich fail and merely increases government debt.
The Democrats will get my vote in November. But, also because freedom and union were both created by God.
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