LIBERALS PROOF THEY BUILT A GREAT NATION

[haw river]

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82 GREAT THINGS BY DEMOCRATS

ALL AMERICAN PARTY

Can anyone name ten for Republicans

Credit for this most of this information goes to my friend, a great mind, and his terrific site
(Rev.Ray Dubuque—www. Liberals like Christ.org)

Republicans fought most of these plus WWII Draft

1. social security act

2. medicare

3. gi bill of rights

4.national industrial recovery act

5.national housing act

6.federal communications act

7.national labor relations act-wagner act of 1935

8.fair labor standards act (min wage & max hours laws)

9.public works adm-works progress adm

10.civilian conservation act

11.Tennessee valley (power) authority

12.rural electrification act

13.full employment act

14.permanent school lunch program

15. Truman ended segregation in armed forces

16.veterans emergency housing act

17.public health service act

18.marshall plan

19.peace corps

20.aid to dependent children program

21.small business investment act

22.establishment of arms control and disarmament agency

23.consumer drug protection laws

24.equal pay act

25.manpower development and retraining act

26.clean air act

27.mental health and mental retardation act

28.college and vocational education act

29.civil rights act

30.voting rights act

31.mass transportation act

32.omnibus poverty act (office of economic opportunity, vista, job corps and public assistance programs)

33.war on poverty

34.head start (for pre-school children)

35.land conservation fund

36.permanent food stamp program

37.appalachia regional development act

38.elementary and secondary education act

39.higher education act

40.older Americans act (medicare and medicaid)

41.law enforcement assistance act

42.immigration reform act

43.freedom of information act

44.clean water restoration act

45.coal mine health and safety act

46.child protection

47.federal ethics code

48.civil service reform

49.creation of superfund (cleanup of toxic waste)

50.secretary of health joseph califano(fight tobacco health threat)

51.votings rights act extension

52.highway and mass transit funding bill

53.civil rights restoration act

54.head start expansion

55.Americans with disabilities act

56.major tax increase on the wealthy to fight
deficits created by Reagan

57.family medical leave act

58.attempted to extend/or improve health insurance coverage for millions of Americans

59.restoration of democracy to haiti

60.restoration of peace to bosnia

61.promotion of peace in south Africa

62.promotion of peace in northern Ireland

63.promotion of peace in Israel and Palestine

64.increases in minimum wage

65.promotion of spending on inner-city schools

66.opposition to abolition of safety net for the poor

67.protection of social security and medicare

68.promotion of justice for victims of racism

69.protection of children from cancer inducing tobacco industry

70.constantly frustrated efforts to enact thorough campaign finance

71.appointment of many minorities and women to cabinet positions

72.resolution of long-standing black farmers discrimination issues

73.leadership role in nato’s campaign to stop ethnic cleansing in kosovo.

74.major efforts to challenge the dangerous proliferation of assault weapons in America

75.ameri-corps

76. pay their way party—

1960 to 1980—National Income grew 418%--Debt grew 210%

1980 to 1992 National Income grew 102%--Debt grew 300%.

Democrats pay their way-Republicans party of spend and borrow-our kids pay Tomorrow

77. party for strong defense—carter increased defense spending by 50%--

Nixon-Ford cut Army troops by 41% and Reagan-Bush cut by 11%

78. Party of Integrity---Reagan had more(137) charged with crimes than cumulative total for all presidents of 20th century.

79. vacation with pay

80.trade union schools—forerunner to community colleges

81.worker retirement pensions

82.veterans administration

83.earned income tax credit—senator russell long bill

Great Gop achievements—
Eisenhower initiated Interstate Highway
Reagan signed Martin Luther King holiday
Nixon signed affirmative action law
Nixon initiated EPA
Nixon initiated OSHA

[BrklynLiberal]

1. www. Liberals like Christ.org is a fantastic site.

[bunnies]

2. liberals like christ?!

mmmkay. OR you could keep your religion out of my politics. Thanks.

[LaydeeBug]

3. Will you please change "proof" to "prove" in your title? thanks eom.

[Glorfindel]

4. Or put a colon after Liberals

That would fix it, also. :hi:

[Lance31]

7. I like proof, 10%proof

[benEzra]

5. Gingrich and others manipulated gullible Dems into #74...

and rode the entirely predictable backlash into the Speaker's chair. There is a lesson in that.

FWIW, less than 3% of U.S. murders involve any type of rifle, and military automatic weapons are already as tightly controlled by Federal law as howitzers and tanks.

[AtheistCrusader]

6. This is no good without sources.

And I see a couple errors from here. Many of these are true, but a couple surprising ones are not. Such as: "29.civil rights act". Both parties were in favor of it, but surprisingly Republican support was stronger. The party lines are different today. At the time, Democrats held most of the former slaveholding states, by a wide margin.
The original House version:<9>

Democratic Party: 152-96 (61%-39%)
Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)
The Senate version:<9>

Democratic Party: 46-21 (69%-31%)
Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:<9>

Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

Not long after this act, some of them switched parties, and those states are core Republican (red) states today.

[haw river]

8. CONGRESS NO

A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT GOT CIVIL RIGHT PASSED

D E M O C R A T I C

CLEAR ENOUGH AMIGO?

[skysoxwiz]

9. Defense of Liberalism

I am happy to find this great list right away when I was thinking about this very subject! TYVM.....Republicans never cease to wave the flag of freedom reminding us of the ways that Ronald Reagan (and by extension Republicans historically)expanded freedom. I'm troubled by this argument that conservatism and libertarianism are the pathway to freedom. Perhaps they are the pathway for a very few but at what cost to others?
For every stock swindler, factory czar and agricultural lord there are thousands of immigrants, the poor, minorities, women and children who are victimized to support these economic freedoms. It's as if conservatives and pure market defenders believe that the wealth and power of the power elite were obtained out of thin air.....without regard to control and manipulation of the factors of production.
What the above writer provided and what I would like to read more about is......how the so-called "big government" advocates have (rather than RESTRICTING freedom) contributed to freedom and enfranchisement. I'm sure many scholars have written on this topic.........any reading suggestions for me?

[Liberalsiano]

10. Partisan hackery ftl

Partisan stupidity is partisan stupidity.


Democrats belonged to the party of slavery, racism and oppression for over a century... and have been the party of war more often than Republicans. (And no, not just "good" wars like WW2)


At the turn of the century Republicans were the trust-busting progressives... As pointed out earlier more Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of '64. Of those Republicans who did not support the bill (Goldwater being a great example), their opposition was out of a principled stance on property rights and "legislating morality" and not out of racism. The dixiecrat Democrats opposition was purely out of racism.




It's fine to be a liberal (Replace fine with "Great" :P), fine to be a Democrat... but don't devolve into partisan hackery. Both parties today are pretty incompetent, with the GOP being a good deal more so. Obama is pretty solid, the rest of the Dem leadership is abysmal. The blue dogs need to go IMO...