This is an excerpt from the Dems platform in 1960 on Immigration. Many flip flops and much the same.
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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.
The revision of immigration and nationality laws we seek will implement our belief that enlightened immigration, naturalization and refugee policies and humane administration of them are important aspects of our foreign policy.
These laws will bring greater skills to our land, reunite families, permit the United States to meet its fair share of world programs of rescue and rehabilitation, and take advantage of immigration as an important factor in the growth of the American economy.
In this World Refugee Year it is our hope to achieve admission of our fair share of refugees. We will institute policies to alleviate suffering among the homeless wherever we are able to extend our aid.
We must remove the distinctions between native-born and naturalized citizens to assure full protection of our laws to all. There is no place in the United States for “second-class citizenship.”
The protections provided by due process, right of appeal, and statutes of limitation, can be extended to non-citizens without hampering the security of our nation.
Housing
5. “The right of every family to a decent home.” Today our rate of home building is less than that of ten years ago. A healthy, expanding economy will enable us to build two million homes a year, in wholesome neighborhoods, for people of all incomes.
Health
6. “The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.”
Public Assistance
Persons in need who are inadequately protected by social insurance are cared for by the states and local communities under public assistance programs.
The Federal Government, which now now shares the cost of aid to some of these, should share in all, and benefits should be made available without regard to residence.
Energy
The Republican Administration would turn the clock back to the days before the New Deal, in an effort to divert the benefits of the great natural energy resources from all the people to a favored few. It has followed for many years a “no new starts” policy.It has stalled atomic energy development; it has sought to cripple rural electrification.It has closed the pilot plant on getting oil from shale.It has harassed and hampered the TVA.We reject this philosophy and these policies. The people are entitled to use profitably what they already own.The Democratic Administration instead will foster the development of efficient regional giant power systems from all sources, including water, tidal, and nuclear power, to supply low-cost electricity to all retail electric systems, public, private, and cooperative.The Democratic Administration will continue to develop “yardsticks” for measuring the rates of private utility systems. This means meeting the needs of rural electric cooperatives for low-interest loans for distribution, transmission and generation facilities; Federal transmission facilities, where appropriate, to provide efficient low-cost power supply; and strict enforcement of the public-preference clause in power marketing.The Democratic Administration will support continued study and research on energy fuel resources, including new sources in wind and sun. It will push forward with the Passamaquoddy tidal power project with its great promise of cheaper power and expanded prosperity for the people of New England.We support the establishment of a national fuels policy.The $15 billion national investment in atomic energy should be protected as a part of the public domain.
Charles Krauthammer, Conservative Democrat, Democratic, Dick Morris, Politics, United States, Washington Post
The last refuge of a liberal – Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
In Communist Platform, Democratic Platform, Federal Government, Legislation, Political Commentary, Politics, White House on August 27, 2010 at 10:18 amImage by Matt Ortega via Flickr
Good article by Charles Krauthammer on Liberal‘s desperation in this election cycle in the Washington Post.
Why is it that they have to resort to race and demonizing their opposition instead of debating the issues on their values? Could it be that they haven’t any logical responses to the questions raised about their socialistic agenda? When far left liberals took over the Democratic Party they lost many “Reagan Democrats”, the sane, middle of the road Americans that had built their party. There is no longer a place for Conservative Democrats in the party and that is why they are losing ground with the electorate, rapidly. Dick Morris finally admitted that the party left him so he had no choice but to switch Morris isn’t the traitor to the party they betrayed him.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/26/AR2010082605233.html
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