This is what Howard Dean told a religous conference, which I found to be quite a chukle given his hostility to the religous right!
Later in his speech Tuesday, Dean appeared to backtrack. “I’m not asking to go back to the ’60s; we made some mistakes in the ’60s,” he said. “If you look at how we did public housing, we essentially created ghettoes for poor people” instead of using today’s method of mixed-income housing.
Another mistake Democrats made in the ’60s, Dean acknowledged, was that “we did give things away for free, and that’s a huge mistake because that does create a culture of dependence, and that’s not good for anybody, either,” he noted, a reference to the Great Society welfare programs created by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson in the mid-1960s.
No where did I see Dean meantion the need for education in this country. In the 50′s and 60′s manufacturing was expanding and afforded those that didn’t go on to college, a place to work where education was not necessary. The manufacturing picture is very different in 2006. Compound that with the fact that Americans are competeing for jobs with illegal aliens..Who will benefit from the increased minimum wage? Will it be illegals or citizens?
The reaction from the RNC:
“It’s nice to see that Howard Dean’s hostility to the religious community ends when people of faith vote Democrat,” Republican National Committee spokesman Josh Holmes told Cybercast News Service.
Holmes added he was not surprised that “Howard Dean’s political perspective is derived from a 1960s counterculture view of the world. What is surprising — and disturbing — is that he can urge a massive expansion of government and denounce the Democrat mistake of creating a ‘culture of dependence’ in the same speech.”
“He may want to revisit that mistake to update his talking points and the Democrat policy manual,” Holmes said.
No where did I see Dean meantion the need for education in this country.
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