2006 Democratic Party Resolutions

1. This year I will actually be a Democratic Party that represents the demos. In crusty times, the Greek word demos didn't mean "the people" it meant the many poor.

From this one resolution, it follows that a Democratic Party will be a party that:

1. Calls for and creates conditions for full employment (in America, not China or India). If the private sector can't create the jobs, the public sector will.

2. Calls for and creates a system of universal health care for every American. Why don't we recognized that the rich will always take care of themselves, or they will buy someone else to take care of them. The government "of the people, by the people and for the people" needs to insure that all the rest of us can help take care of one another.

3. Calls for and creates a sustainable social security system. The rich will always take care of themselves or buy someone else to take care of them. Social Secutiry is for the rest of us. That said however, Social Security taxes should be colected on all income from the first to the last penny. Those who benefit the most from the American Way should pay the most to support it.

4. Calls for and creates a well-regulated infrastructure in order to maintain a diverse political and social community; namely, utilities of phone and electricity, and transportation. In other words, it's time to recover from making the market a fetish, and worshipping it as the cure all for everything. The market only performs a limited task for a limited purpose.

5. Calls for and restores the legitimacy of our government as one that operates under the Constitution not in spite of it. The Democratic Party is the party of limited government intrusion into the private lives of Americans.

6. Call for and creates a strong military; this means a military with well trained and supplied troops, not a well-greased and corrupt "military industrial complex" warned against by outgoing President and Supreme Allied Commander during WWII Dwight Eisenhower.

It's time for the Democratic Party to remember that is was and should become once again the Party of the New Deal. If the Robber Barons want to scream socialism, let them and gently remind them that if this was real socialism, the "demos' would take all their stuff. This isn't socialism, it's the only way for capitalism to survive. The Democratic Party is the party of small business, of working people, of the middle class; it's time for the party to remember that Wall Street is not Main Street, that money is not speech, and that politicians who lie down with the moneyed interest are whores. Whores may be good for some things, but do we really want the diseases they bring along with their supposed good times.