KERRY vs. CPUSA

Fiedor Report On the News #311 ^ | 8-7-04 | Doug Fiedor

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Last week I mentioned that Kerry's platform is almost indistinguishable from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) platform. Many folks (especially yellow-dog Democrats) wrote wanting more Information about that accusation.

Therefore, this week we list the ten points stipulated by CPUSA(1) and match them up with text taken directly from the Kerry-Edwards (K-E) agenda.(2) Slight editing was used in the K-E sections, but only enough to make the text a little more readable.

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CPUSA: Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs rebuilding schools, bridges, roads and hospitals.

K-E: . . . Create good-paying jobs here, not ship them overseas; support our unions; establish a National Education Trust Fund to ensure that schools always get the funding they need; offer a fully refundable College Opportunity Tax credit on up to $4,000 of tuition for every year of college.

 

CPUSA: Bush is privatizing Medicare, Social Security and public education with phony reforms instead of enacting health care for all, protecting retirement funds and full funding for public education through college.

K-E: . . . use targeted tax cuts to extend affordable, high-quality coverage to 95 percent of Americans, including every child; make affordable health care a right -- not a privilege -- for every American.

 

CPUSA: Bush is bankrupting the Federal Government with giant tax cuts for the very rich and super-funds to the military instead of securing the budget for human needs by taxing the rich and spending on human needs.

K-E: . . . cut the deficit in half during first four years in office; end corporate welfare as we know it; roll back the Bush tax cuts.

 

CPUSA: Bush is rolling back civil rights gains instead of enforcing and expanding affirmative action to end racism in all areas of life.

K-E: . . . extremist judges are turning back the clock on our 40-year march toward equality; will strongly enforce our nation's civil rights laws, support affirmative action to reduce discrimination and expand opportunity, and only appoint judges with a record of enforcing the nation's civil rights and anti-discrimination laws.

 

CPUSA: Bush is curtailing women's rights and choice by undermining Roe v. Wade instead of upholding the right to choice and ending the gender wage gap.

K-E: . . . help Balance Work And Family; close The Pay Gap; Protect Women's Health And Right To Choose; only nominate individuals to the federal bench whose records demonstrate a respect for the full range of constitutional rights, including the right to privacy and the right to choose.

 

CPUSA: Bush is abusing immigrant workers in low-wage jobs instead of providing a clear path to citizenship and equal rights.

K-E: . . . offer a reform bill in his first 100 days that allows immigrants to earn legalization and encourages family reunification.

 

CPUSA: Bush is exploiting and ruining the environment by protecting corporate polluters instead of conserving our natural resources for the public good.

K-E: The League of Conservation Voters called Kerry an "environmental champion." K-E will: improve the environment in backyards and communities across America; revitalize contaminated industrial sites, get toxics [sic.] out of communities; guarantee our children access to clean, safe parks and baseball fields; take on traffic congestion and sprawl; reverse the Bush-Cheney rollbacks to our Clean Air Act; plug loopholes in the law; take aggressive action to stop acid rain; use innovative, job-creating programs to reduce mercury emissions and other emissions that contribute to global warming.

 

CPUSA: Bush's war in Iraq is a disaster for our security and economy. He is pushing for more preemptive wars and for first strike nuclear military policy instead of negotiations and cooperation utilizing the UN.

K-E: Today, our leadership has walked away from more than a century of American leadership in the world to embrace a new -- and dangerously ineffective -- American disregard for the world. They bully instead of persuade. They act alone when they could assemble a team. They confuse leadership with going it alone.

 

CPUSA: Bush is denying civil liberties and free speech in the name of fighting terrorism instead of repealing the USA Patriot Act and helping cities, towns and states fund firefighters and police.

K-E: Our first defenders will respond to any attack with courage and heroism-but they also need the equipment and manpower to do the job; believe in an America that is safe and free, and [promise to] protect personal liberties as well as personal security.

 

CPUSA: Bush discriminates against Gays and Lesbians with a Constitutional Amendment instead of expanding civil rights and liberties for all.

K-E: . . . strongly enforce our nation's civil rights laws; support affirmative action to reduce discrimination and expand opportunity; strongly enforce equal justice for all victims of hate violence; back the Fairness Act to reverse damage done to civil rights laws by right-wing judges.

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1. http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/585/1/27/

2. http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/

 

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Ten CPUSA points matched to Kerry.

CPUSA: Bush discriminates against Gays and Lesbians with a Constitutional Amendment instead of expanding civil rights and liberties for all.

K-E: Strongly enforce our nation's civil rights laws, reduce discrimination and hate violence, and reverse damage done to civil rights laws by right-wing judges.

[struwwelpeter]

He's got the AARP vote tied up as well.

[smith288]

bump for later

[sergeantdave]

and other emissions that contribute to global warming.

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Kerry the segregationist -

According to a study commissioned by the National Black Chamber of Commerce and other minority organizations, the Kyoto Protocol could make approximately 864,000 blacks and 511,000 Hispanics jobless in the United States while reducing the wages of those minorities still working by about ten percent.

Other studies predict gas prices would rise another 66 cents a gallon, electricity bills would rise almost $2,000 a year and a house would cost 21 percent more to buy.


In Richland County, South Carolina, restrictions fighting “urban sprawl” prevent black farmers, whose families have owned their land since the end of the Civil War, from selling their land. This policy even stops these families from dividing their land among their own children!


Had the entire nation followed Portland, Oregon's environmentalist-endorsed policies of restricting new home construction in the 1990s, there would be a million fewer homeowners today.


Included in that figure are approximately 260,000 black homeowners who might not have been able to buy the homes they live in today. By restricting the quantity of new homes and driving up the prices of existing ones, smart growth essentially becomes a new form of segregation. Yet these neo-segregationist policies remain popular with environmentalists.


A study commissioned by the Natural Resources Council last year found that only six percent of the staff members of 60 green groups surveyed are black (only three percent are Hispanic). In the case of the League of Conservation Voters, the study was “not aware of one minority professional ever working at LCV in its almost 30-year history.”

[Captain Kirk]

Well....I suppose I could find some sort of racist site somewhere that also spouts many views freepers share. Does that make freepers and racists one in the same? Of course, not.

[French-American Republican]

Democrats: Communists with a more verbose platform.

[French-American Republican]

Yeah, but the core ideology of the right is social order and free market economics. While some FReepers may be racists, and some racists may be Bush supporters; racism has nothing to do with the GOP platform.

On the other hand Democrats are just a mild version of communism.

[concerned about politics]

Communists have taken over the Democrat party.
Watergate was all about Democrats getting contributions from Communist Cuba. That's what the break in was. They were looking for documents.
Carter gave Communist N Korea their nuclear technology.
Clinton sold Red China it's long range missile technology.

[concerned about politics]

AND....Kerry sided with the communist in Viet Nam, helping them win the war against the U.S.

[concerned about politics]

AND...MoveOn.Org is an organization consisting of U.S. Communists/Socialist that merged with the old European Communist/Socialist hold overs from the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. They still want to win their wars.
The U.S. left merged to gain power so they could try to save their Gestapo from impeachment, but they lost that war, too.
Now they're angry. They want their Communist revolution, even if they have to steal it through the brown shirt trial lawyers and Nazi sympathizer judges.

[cmotormac44]

not my AARP vote----hell, I just use them for the deals that suit me and throw their other trash away---

[tvn]

Kerry-Edwards propose tax breaks for the middle class and elimination of tax cuts for highest income earners.

This K-E tax the rich proposal can be traced directly to its source- The Communist Manifesto of 1848:

"Article 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."

This is one more reason to support Republican sponsored legislation to repeal the current tax code and replace it with a flat tax, national sales tax or VAT.

[iopscusa]

Well Captain Krunch, find that site and make those comparisons and if you were not quite so snide and such a know it all, someone might take you seriously...jeez what a BA-bad attitude! If you don't like anything or anyone here, move on BA.

[wagglebee]

I'm confused, I thought the 'Rats and the CPUSA were the same thing, oh well.

[Captain Kirk]

Now...that you have that off your chest, perhaps you would like to have a civil discussion.

Do you have any specific objection to anything I said? If so, what it is it?

Cheers,

Captain Krunch

[Doug Fiedor]

LOL . . . you and most of us.

[xorp]

Here are some more:

#1 International plan for Aids
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/258/1/48/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/aids/
http://georgebush.com/Compassion/Read.aspx?ID=2825

#2 Womans rights
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/433/1/3/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/women/
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=3

#3 Go after the Pharmaceutical Companies
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/319/1/3/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/seniors/prescription.html

#4 GLBT rights
http://www.cpusa.org/article/archive/49/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/glbt/
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=19

#5 Gun control
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/101/1/51/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/crime/

#6 Patient Bill of Rights
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/94/1/67/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/healthcare/

#7 No tax relief for rich
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/395/1/3/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/economy/
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=7

#8 Affirmative Action
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview/512/1/39/
http://www.johnkerry.com/issues/civilrights/
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php?cid=34

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I see Communists, they're everywhere, they walk around just like everybody else, they don't even know that they're Communists.