AnimusRex
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Far be it from me to argue with babelishere, but I will give it a shot:
Here are some excerpts from the 1960 Democratic Party Platform, upon which Kennedy was elected:
On Immigration:
"We shall adjust our immigration, nationality and refugee policies to eliminate discrimination and to enable members of scattered families abroad to be united with relatives already in our midst.
The national-origins quota system of limiting immigration contradicts the rounding principles of this nation. It is inconsistent with our belief in the rights of man. This system was instituted after World War I as a policy of deliberate discrimination by a Republican Administration and Congress."
Wow...allowing unlimited immigration of...gasp...Mexicans? Oh, teh Soshulizm!
On the United Nations:
"Through the machinery of the United Nations, we shall work for disarmament, the establishment of an international police force, the strengthening of the World Court, and the establishment of world law.
Great Democratic Presidents have taken the lead in the effort to unite the nations of the world in an international organization to assure world peace with justice under law."
GOOD GOD!!! ONE LAW with an INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE!!!! That damned fascistic commie bastard!!!
On the economy:
"The Democratic Party reaffirms its support of full employment as a paramount objective of national policy.
For nearly 30 months the rate of unemployment has been between 5 and 7.5% of the labor force. A pool of three to four million citizens, able and willing to work but unable to find jobs, has been written off by the Republican Administration as a "normal" readjustment of the economic system.
The policies of a Democratic Administration to restore economic growth will reduce current unemployment to a minimum.
Thereafter, if recessionary trends appear, we will act promptly with counter-measures, such as public works or temporary tax cuts. We will not stand idly by and permit recessions to run their course as the Republican Administration has done.
"These communities have undertaken valiant efforts of self-help. But mutual aid, as well as self-help, is part of the American tradition. Stricken communities deserve the help of the whole nation."
PUBLIC WORKS??!!! NOT ALLOWING THE MAGIKAL FREE HAND TO SELF_CORRECT TEH ECONMY???
Jesus God, how could such a Soshulizt ever be allowed to come to power?
On Unionized Labor:
"We will repeal the authorization for "right-to-work" laws, limitations on the rights to strike, to picket peacefully and to tell the public the facts of a labor dispute, and other anti-labor features of the Taft-Hartley Act and the 1959 Act. This unequivocal pledge for the repeal of the anti-labor and restrictive provisions of those laws will encourage collective bargaining and strengthen and support the free and honest labor movement.
We shall strengthen and modernize the Walsh-Healey and Davis-Bacon Acts, which protect the wage standards of workers employed by Government contractors. "
Strengthen labor unions? Isn't this why Obama's nominee to the TSA is being blocked?
On Raising the Minimum Wage:
"At the bottom of the income scale are some eight million families whose earnings are too low to provide even basic necessities of food, shelter, and clothing.
We pledge to raise the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour and to extend coverage to several million workers not now protected.
We pledge further improvements in the wage, hour and coverage standards of the Fair Labor Standards Act so as to extend its benefits to all workers employed in industries engaged in or affecting interstate commerce and to raise its standards to keep up with our general economic progress and needs."
On Food Stamps:
"The Democratic Administration will inaugurate a national food and fiber policy for expanded use of our agricultural abundance. We will no longer view food stockpiles with alarm but will use them as powerful instruments for peace and plenty.
We will increase consumption at home. A vigorous, expanding economy will enable many American families to eat more and better food.
We will use the food stamp programs authorized to feed needy children, the aged and the unemployed. We will expand and improve the school lunch and milk programs."
Apparently President Kennedy failed to understand that Mrs. Bostik would be using this program to make oxtail soup for her family.
On Big Business:
"The last 7 1/2 years of Republican government has been the greatest period of merger and amalgamation in industry and banking in American history. Democratic Congresses have enacted numerous important measures to strengthen our anti-trust laws. Since 1950 the four Democratic Congresses have enacted laws like the Celler-Kefauver Anti-Merger Act, and improved the laws against price discriminations and tie-in sales.
When the Republicans were in control of the 80th and 83rd Congresses they failed to enact a single measure to strengthen or improve the antitrust laws.
The Democratic Party opposes this trend to monopoly.
We pledge vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws.
We favor requiring corporations to file advance notice of mergers with the anti-trust enforcement agencies."
WOT? Attacking corporations, the live-giving mothers milk of jobz? How Soshulizt! How Fascist!
Medical Care:
"The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health."
Illness is expensive. Many Americans have neither incomes nor insurance protection to enable them to pay for modern health care. The problem is particularly acute with our older citizens, among whom serious illness strikes most often.
We shall provide medical care benefits for the aged as part of the time-tested Social Security insurance system. We reject any proposal which would require such citizens to submit to the indignity of a means test—a "pauper's oath."
As stated, we will provide an effective system for paid-up medical insurance upon retirement, financed during working years through the Social Security mechanism and available to all retired persons without a means test. This has first priority."
ZOMG!!! A government run medical care system??? Isn't this what Ronald Reagan called a Socialist takeover of the health care system that would destroy life as we know it? KennedyKare, I think it was called, which is why today we have Death Panels, or something.
And it goes on...welfare, disability insurance, housing assistance, retirement assistance...oh, and this gem-
"Natural resources are the birthright of all the people.
The new Democratic Administration, with the vision that built a TVA and a Grand Coulee, will develop and conserve that heritage for the use of this and future generations. We will reverse Republican policies under which America's resources have been wasted, depleted, underdeveloped, and recklessly given away."
Natural Resources are the birthright of....THE PEOPLE? Isn't that what Mao said???
Jesus God, who was this radical Un-American Soshulist Commu-Nazi??
But hey, I will give you this- he was a defense hawk, AND advocated for nuclear power.
So on balance, I was wrong.
Obama is MORE CONSERVATIVE than JFK.
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