[Dialogue] {Spam?} Another sign of hope

[KroegerD at aol.com]

This from John Edwards:
 
Dear Richard,

Yesterday, I delivered a speech in  New Hampshire where I laid out a 
transformational change agenda to guarantee  universal health care, stop global 
warming, close the education gap, end poverty  at home, and make America more secure 
through an historic effort to reduce  poverty across the globe.

Today, I'm turning to you to help make that  happen.

If you support this call for transformational change, I need your  help to 
spread the word. I'm asking you to contribute whatever you can to help  our 
campaign bring this message to voters in every corner of this nation and  build a 
movement strong enough to get the job done:

_http://johnedwards.com/r/7788/403650/_ 
(http://johnedwards.com/r/7787/403650/) 

Everything we do at home ripples around the world. And everything  we do 
around the world affects us here at home. There is no such thing as just  foreign 
policy anymore. In this new world the old incremental approach just  doesn't 
cut it—we need to bold, daring, boundary-pushing change.

We  need transformational change because there are still two Americas —one 
for  the powerful and one for everybody else. Millions of middle class families 
are  struggling and 37 million Americans are left in poverty. Yesterday, my 
call for  change began with my plan to end poverty in America and secure the 
middle class  by creating what I call the Working Society.

In the Working Society, we  will reward work with a higher minimum wage, 
stronger labor laws, and tax  credits for working families. We will offer 
affordable housing near good jobs  and good schools, and create a million 
stepping-stone jobs for people who cannot  find work on their own. We will help workers 
save for the future with new work  bonds and affordable savings accounts. And we 
will end the scourge of poverty in  America within 30 years.

We need transformational change to address  the health care crisis that 
leaves 47 million Americans without any health  insurance, and millions more with 
spiraling costs and dwindling coverage. So my  plan guarantees truly universal 
health insurance to every American, while making  it cheaper and easier for 
businesses to cover their employees and establishing  the basic responsibility 
of every individual to get the coverage they  need.

We need transformational change to address the education  crisis that half a 
century after Brown v. Board of Education still yields an  intolerable gap 
between the races and the rich and the poor. So I proposed a  real investment to 
recruit, train, and support our national teacher corps. And I  outlined a plan 
I call "College for Everyone" that will pay for the first year  of college 
for any student in America who needs it and is willing to work  part-time.

We need transformational change to stop global warming  and create a new 
energy economy that helps fuel the growth of a secure middle  class in the 21st 
century. By changing our energy infrastructure and investing  in research, 
development and deployment of alternative energy technologies, we  can create more 
than a million new jobs in America. We must set an example for  the world by 
implementing a cap on carbon emissions and through dramatically  increasing our 
national and individual energy efficiency.

This week, I  announced our campaign will take the first step toward reducing 
our impact on  global warming by going carbon neutral.

There's one other subject I  talked about yesterday that is very important to 
me personally—and to the  security of America. And that's global poverty.

Tackling global  poverty is the right and moral thing to do. And it's also 
the smart thing to do  for our security.

A great portion of a generation is being educated in  madrassas run by 
militant extremists rather than in public schools. And as a  result, thousands and 
thousands of young people who might once have aspired to  be educated in 
America are being taught to hate America.

When you  understand that, it suddenly becomes clear: Global poverty is not 
only a moral  issue for the United States—it is a national security issue for 
the United  States. If we solve it, we begin to create a world in which the 
ideologies of  radical terrorism are overwhelmed by the values of education, 
democracy, and  opportunity. Now that's transformational.

So yesterday I outlined my  plan to tackle global poverty head on. We will 
launch a worldwide effort to  bring primary education to every corner of the 
globe. We will invest in  preventive health care through clean water and 
sanitation systems to give poor  families a chance at healthy lives. We will provide 
the tools of local  entrepreneurship and active citizenry that are the 
cornerstones of stable  prosperity. And we will create a cabinet level position in the 
White House to  elevate all our national efforts at eradicating poverty 
worldwide.

These  plans may sound very big—and that's because they are. But we are a 
country built  on our commitment to the biggest of ideas. We have never turned 
our back on  progress, no matter how daunting. And we're not about to  start.

Transformational change of this magnitude can happen, but it  cannot come 
from one candidate or one president adopting a big vision. It only  happens when 
an entire generation decides they are ready to fully realize their  potential 
for greatness. It happened at our nation's founding. It happened when  our 
parents and grandparents overcame the Great Depression and defeated the  
fascist-totalitarian juggernaut. And if you are willing to step forward, it can  
happen today.

Thank you,

John Edwards
Friday, March 16th,  2006



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