UPDATED: Who said it?
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We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs—expansion of social security—broadened coverage in unemployment insurance —improved housing—and better health protection for all our people.
In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human.
Government must have a heart as well as a head.
Answer to come -- NO GOOGLING!!! It will shock and amaze you.
UPDATE: The first poster with his DDE gets partial credit -- it's from the platform at the 1956 RNC that nominated Dwight David Eisenhower (and Richard Nixon!). More info here and here. Those longing for bipartisanship in America should know that it once existed, as a fairly liberal consensus on domestic policy.
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Those dirty red commie Republicans.
Was it the American Socialist Party Platform? The Green party? It had to be one of those pinkos.— Hamlet
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I should point out that was written in 1996 re: being close to full employment. And that is why the Obama administration is targeting tax cuts towards job growth, specifically.— Talking point sleuth- Here you go, jmc: --snip-- No doubt a determined econometrician can "prove" that the Kennedy-Johnson tax cut was a great success. He will have to be pretty determined. But even so, that would not make the Kennedy-Johnson tax cut a model for us. We start with much lower tax rates. We are much closer to full employment than we were, or thought we were, when Kennedy proposed the cut. We have a bigger deficit, relative to actual or potential national income. And, most important, we face frighteningly large deficits in the next generation, whereas Kennedy and Johnson thought they faced frighteningly large surpluses. --snip--— Talking point sleuth
- You really don't get it, do you jmc. You seriously think that tax cuts during times of a huge deficit are the same as tax cuts when there is a minimal deficit. You seriously equate calls for tax cuts when the top marginal tax rate was 91% - which resulted in a relatively tiny deficit - with tax cuts now, when we have a huge deficit?— Talking point sleuth
- "Let's give Tax cuts to the poor- because they pay so much in taxes."..........Classic Liberal Logic.— Manny Trillo
- LOL! jmc, are you equating tax cuts now, or tax cuts under Bush, with the tax cuts Kennedy proposed (they were passed after his death)? --snip--- When Kennedy came into office in 1961, the top marginal rate of individual income tax was 91... The top corporate rate was 52% with much [lower] depreciation allowances.... the federal deficit was about 0.6% of gross national product...The administration believed that there was a long-term problem of fiscal drag. It thought that in the long run the potential growth of total output was 4% a year, without counting on increased growth from tax reduction or other structural reforms. But this potential growth rate would not be achieved with existing tax and expenditure policies, because they would yield excessive surpluses, which would depress demand. So the long-run growth problem was to get rid of these troublesome budget surpluses.....Cutting taxes was not Kennedy's first choice for getting rid of those troublesome surpluses. He had plans for many expenditure increases - for defense, education, urban renewal, regional economic development, worker training and medical care for the aged. Congress did not approve any of that, except for an increase in defense spending after the Soviets put up the Berlin Wall...The Kennedy administration would have liked to "get the economy moving again" by easing monetary policy. But the administration did not control monetary policy, which in any case was inhibited by the balance-of-payments deficit combined with the commitment to support the dollar exchange rate.....By current measurements, the expansion began in February 1961 and continued until December 1969. That is, it began well before the tax cut and was prolonged at the end for expenditures for the Vietnam War.... --snip-- It is amazing how little analysis you put behind your points, jmc.— Talking point sleuth
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Here's another good one from JFK: "Our tax system still siphons out of the private economy too large a share of personal and business purchasing power and reduces the incentive for risk, investment and effort – thereby aborting our recoveries and stifling our national growth rate." Music to my ears.— jmc- Comment removed.
- "It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now ... Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus." John F. Kennedy 1962. Apparently it's not only the GOP that did an about face.— jmc
- Sorry Will, I cheated, and yes I am amazed. Just goes to show how low the wingnut party has sunk.— AHiredGun
- --snip--- Global Warming is a Hoax--snip-- so is Climate Change--snip- we are gullible liberals-- snip Al Gore plays a scientist on TV--snip- LOL-BOYZ-ARTS— Manny Trillo
- I think that was RG, wasn't it?— Talking point sleuth
- It's no surprise that BOTH parties would like to take us straight to a one world government, sacrificing American sovereignty for the New World Order. Both Democrats and Republicans are branches of the Bilderbergers.— Mark Glaeser
- Phil Jones-?............."The learned professor- Phil Jones- told his interviewer that for the past 15 years there has been no "statistically significant" warming. He conceded that he has lost track of many of the relevant papers — that his office was overwhelmed by the clutter of paper. Some of the crucial data to back up scare stories might be lying under other stuff, but he's not sure. An environmental analyst for the BBC said the professor told him that his "strengths" include "integrity" and "doggedness" but not record-keeping and "office tidying." He's just not dogged about keeping things straight............ This was good enough in the early years of the scam, but not any longer. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama at Huntsville and once a ranking member of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says the temperature records have been compromised and cannot be relied on. The findings of weather stations that collected temperature data were distorted by location. Several were located near air-conditioning units and on waste-treatment plants; one was next to a waste incinerator. Still another was built at Rome's international airport and catches the hot exhaust of taxiing jetliners."— Manny Trillo
- The party of real Americans will pick up at least 8 Senate seats and 35 House seats, nuff said. Thank you President M.T. Suit!— WriteWinger
- DDE— will_wonders_never_cease
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