When I heard John Kerry speak yesterday, he praised Obama's health care plan for not being a big government project. I winced when he said it. Kerry is using and falling for a right wing talking point. We need to put a lot of nails in that idea's coffin. Government that protects the weakest members of society, that enables every citizen to have a shot at jobs and opportunity, that protects our shared commons and resources, our economy and safety-- that's good government and we have to pay for it. That's investment in America and opposing taxes that invest in America's safety and future-- that right wing idea is not exactly patriotic, wise or courageous. It's cheap, parasitic and a sellout to big, transnational corporations and the military industrial complex. We on the left have known it. Now, many who supported the right wing politicians have felt it. It's time to challenge them to look their embrace of less govt and taxes in the eye and see that it's a bad idea.
Good, responsible government is GOOD for America, good for our privacy, good for our privacy, good for our prosperity. We need to pay taxes to make it happen. When we do, we pay less in other ways. We earn more in other ways. The less taxes, less government mantra offers a devils bargain.
It's time for leading democrats to find the guts to embrace the democratic, progressive principles that support healthy government and fair taxes that hit the wealthy harder. I don't want to see leaders like Kerry bashing government projects, like universal single payer health care. I'd like to see candidates take on the right wing less tax and less government mantra head on, and that means embracing and being proud of the functions of government. It's time.Next Page 1 | 2
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
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first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)
