The Green Party And Ending Poverty In Ohio

[irishbobcat]

The only right Dan believe's in is the right to die......

[Dan Moadus]

Two questions for Dennis:

1. Do you believe our Country should be governed by the U.S. Constitution word for word, as amended? 

2. Without pointing to  the "promote the general welfare" clause, where does the Constitution indicate that every Ohioan has the right to food, housing, medical care, jobs that pay a living wage, education, and support in times of hardship?

[Towntalk]

The Third Depression

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/krugman-the-third-depression/

Worrying about the wrong spending will keep us from doing the right spending

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/06/worrying_about_the_wrong_spend.html

[Towntalk]

I really do get tired of repeating myself iwasthere, but as a lifetime Roosevelt Democrat I have no real argument with it. My comments were directed to Dan, not Dennis.

[iwasthere]

Sounds like the Democratic platform to me.

Also sounds like a National Council of Churches policy statement as well as the Catholic Council of Bishops.

democratic platform or not i say it is a healthy platform for a country to have to feed the needy, downtrodden and such. "by the grace of God go I"

[Towntalk]

Sounds like the Democratic platform to me.

Also sounds like a National Council of Churches policy statement as well as the Catholic Council of Bishops.

[Dan Moadus]

Let's see if I have this right? "From each, according to their abilities; to each according to thier needs." Do I have it right Dennis?

[irishbobcat]

The Green Party And Ending Poverty In Ohio
Every Ohioan has the right to food, housing, medical care, jobs that pay a living wage, education, and support in times of hardship.

Greens believe that support for families, children, the poor and the disabled must not be given grudgingly; it is the right of those presently in need and an investment in our future. We must take an uncompromising position that the care and nurture of children, elders and the disabled are essential to a healthy, peaceful, and sustainable society. We should recognize that the work of their caregivers is of social and economic value, and reward it accordingly. Ensuring that children and their caregivers have access to an adequate, secure standard of living should form the cornerstone of our economic priorities. Only then can we hope to build our future on a foundation of healthy, educated children who are raised in an atmosphere of love and security.

Green Solutions

1. Restore federally-funded entitlement program to support children, families, the unemployed, elderly and disabled, with no time limit on benefits.

2. Establish a graduated supplemental income, or negative income tax, that would maintain all individual adult incomes above the poverty level, regardless of employment or marital status.

3. Provide massive investments in living-wage job development and work training programs. Publicly-funded work training and education programs should have a goal of increasing employment options at finding living-wage jobs.

4. Provide public funding for the development of living-wage jobs in community and environmental service, including environmental clean-up, recycling, sustainable agriculture and food production, sustainable forest management, repair and maintenance of public facilities, neighborhood-based public safety, aides in schools, libraries and childcare centers, and construction and renovation of energy-efficient housing. Oppose enterprise zone give-aways which benefit corporations more than inner-city communities.

5. Enact tax policies to encourage businesses to adopt fair employee wage distribution standards.

6. Stop forcing welfare recipients to accept jobs that pay less than a living wage. Workfare is a form of indentured servitude.

7. Require corporations receiving public subsidies to provide jobs that pay a living wage, observe basic workers' rights, and agree to affirmative action policies.