Tenets of Bradley’s book, New American Story, a liberal breath of fresh air
Former Senator Bill Bradley has also blown a liberal breath of air into the public policy arena in his new book. This blog should flesh out and assess each of these tenets for their merit in terms of supporting their inclusion in the Democratic Party 2008 Presidential platform. For now, here is a list of his main tenets.
-Doctrine of Collective Action: use a systems approach integrating the issues into integrated policy.
-Tell the truth about Health Care (HC), Pensions, Education, and Environment vs. spin
-Stop Red/Blue divisiveness by rescinding gerrymandered Congressional Districts
-Achieve more U.S. voter participation via a weekend election date
-Lose oil dependence via increased auto fuel efficiency standards. 48 MPG ends oil imports; tax break to buy hybrids, surtax to buy guzzlers
-Follow the Edwards HC Plan and fund by a 10% ($50 bil.) cut in Defense budget via tougher accountability standards, i.e. No more F22 with 45% cost overrun and 20 months late.
-Focus on key issues via international co-operation as a team sport-all nations contribute according to the sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) of nations. (Iraq would be a good place to start).
Issues (SCA nations in paren by this author)
.HC (UK)
.Ed (Germany)
.Pension (?)
.Environment (EU)
.Global Financial Institution reform (US/EU-IMF could stop acting like Citibank’s agent)
.Global poverty (US)
.Global disease (US)
.Religious intolerance (?)
.
-Restructure the Democratic Party (page out of GOP book)
*Focused Strategy
.Money
.Rejuvenated Think tanks
.Slogans
.Media control
*Purge Weaknesses
.Fear of thinking big-courage profiles missing
.Tax and spend-bring back the multiplier
.Soft on defense-tighten up accountability
.Closed mind to faith-acknowledge spiritual side
.Wealth bashing-support individual initiative, but hold to responsibility to society
.Special friends-cast a wider net
.Hypnotic over charismatic leaders-white knight vs. pragmatic doer with longer coattails
It would be useful for Scatablog to take up and expand on these issues over the coming weeks.
-Doctrine of Collective Action: use a systems approach integrating the issues into integrated policy.
-Tell the truth about Health Care (HC), Pensions, Education, and Environment vs. spin
-Stop Red/Blue divisiveness by rescinding gerrymandered Congressional Districts
-Achieve more U.S. voter participation via a weekend election date
-Lose oil dependence via increased auto fuel efficiency standards. 48 MPG ends oil imports; tax break to buy hybrids, surtax to buy guzzlers
-Follow the Edwards HC Plan and fund by a 10% ($50 bil.) cut in Defense budget via tougher accountability standards, i.e. No more F22 with 45% cost overrun and 20 months late.
-Focus on key issues via international co-operation as a team sport-all nations contribute according to the sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) of nations. (Iraq would be a good place to start).
Issues (SCA nations in paren by this author)
.HC (UK)
.Ed (Germany)
.Pension (?)
.Environment (EU)
.Global Financial Institution reform (US/EU-IMF could stop acting like Citibank’s agent)
.Global poverty (US)
.Global disease (US)
.Religious intolerance (?)
.
-Restructure the Democratic Party (page out of GOP book)
*Focused Strategy
.Money
.Rejuvenated Think tanks
.Slogans
.Media control
*Purge Weaknesses
.Fear of thinking big-courage profiles missing
.Tax and spend-bring back the multiplier
.Soft on defense-tighten up accountability
.Closed mind to faith-acknowledge spiritual side
.Wealth bashing-support individual initiative, but hold to responsibility to society
.Special friends-cast a wider net
.Hypnotic over charismatic leaders-white knight vs. pragmatic doer with longer coattails
It would be useful for Scatablog to take up and expand on these issues over the coming weeks.
posted by Anonymous | 11:00 PM
1 Comments:
On a PBS channel, I watched Charlie Rose interview Bill Bradley about these tenets from Bradley's book. I was favorably impressed. They do merit discussion.
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