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The Democratic Party. By: Claire West On the Date of: April 1, 2011. What is some of the party’s platform?. Support and invest in alternative energy and the people who make and use it. Create more financial aid to get into college Supporting innovated teaching methods.
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The Democratic Party By: Claire West On the Date of: April 1, 2011
What is some of the party’s platform? • Support and invest in alternative energy and the people who make and use it. • Create more financial aid to get into college • Supporting innovated teaching methods. • Giving homosexual couples the same rights as other couples. • Giving non-violent convicts a 2nd chance in a more fair court system. • End profiling.
More Platform Issues • Decreasing discrimination in the workplace. • Remove tax loop holes that let American companies hide profits over-seas. • Giving tax breaks to small business owners. • Creating jobs by hiring citizens to fix roads, railroads, and sea-ports. • Protecting the environment. • All people should have the basic security of healthcare insurance. • Have a more understandable public spending record.
Give Homosexual Couples the Same Rights as Other Couples. • If two people are truly in love and they want to pledge their lives to one another, then they should be able to through at least a civil union. That civil union should have the same benefits and legal protections as a common law marriage, because both are a mutual contract between two individuals who are devoting themselves to one another, so gender differences between the two contracts should have no affect on the benefits of them.
Supporting and Investing In Alternative Energy • Fossil fuel supplies are dwindling and becoming more expensive each and every day. In the future there will be no more of those supplies, but by planning ahead and perfecting alternative energy sources, especially in transportation, we don’t only cut down on future costs but we save and protect our environment as well.
Give Tax Breaks to Small Business Owners • Small business owners tend to be more community based and less corrupt than big business owners. They tend to care more about the people around them then just how to make a quick buck. To stay afloat they have to manage their finances well, and it seems like big businesses are forgetting how to do that. • By supporting small businesses and giving them tax breaks it opens up more jobs, because small businesses don’t normally outsource.
All People Should Have the Basic Security of Healthcare Insurance • Even with Medicare and Medicaid millions of people still can’t afford to go to the hospital or get health insurance. Health insurance insures you that when you are sick or hurt your medical bills will be paid in some manner or to some extent. Without health insurance millions of people fall into debt because of hospital bills.
Healthcare Insurance Cont. • If your teeth go bad then all your health goes down hill, so what happens if you can’t afford the dentist? • Many college students can’t afford health insurance or the bills, what happens when you are in college and get kicked out because you can’t do your work because your sick but you can’t go to the hospital and get a note to excuse your absences? • Then, you’ll see the importance of health insurance.
Create More Financial Aid For College • Create more opportunities for the U.S.’s future leaders, citizens, workers, and professionals to get higher education. • It is like a security plan for the future and where we are headed. If we want to have a bright future then we need educated and highly certified people to be working in our country. If we want people to be highly educated and certified then we need them to go to college. If we want them to go to college, then they are going to need money to pay for it.
Interesting Facts About The Democratic Party • The Democrats got their symbol of a donkey when their opponents made fun of a democratic candidate, by calling him a jackass (a donkey). • The Democratic Party is the oldest continuous political party in the U.S.A. • Thomas Jefferson was like one of the founders of the U.S. Democratic Party.
More Interesting Facts • The dominating party before the Civil War was the Democratic party. They were divided on the issue of slavery, which helped Abraham Lincoln become President. • Most of the former Confederate states voted for the Democratic Party for a while after the Civil War, because most people associated the Republican Party with the defeation of the Confederacy.
Interesting Facts Cont. • The Democrats usually come into the presidential office during hard times, and usually offer something with “new” in the title when they are there. Such as Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom and F.D.R.’s New Deal. • The Democrats came up with Medicare and social security. • Throughout much of its history the Democratic Party was divided between the Northern and Southern Democrats.
Interesting Facts Cont. 2 • A Democrat, Congressman John Conyers, proposed the bill to make Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday, in honor of his Civil Rights contributions and his assassination. • F.D.R., a democratic president, signed the G.I. Bill that gave many veterans the opportunity to go to college and educate themselves.
Does the Democrat Party Exist Today? • Yes, in fact, it is one of the major political parties of the U.S.A.
Would I Be a Member of the Democratic Party? • I don’t agree with all of the party’s views, however I agree with enough of them to be a Democrat, but I’d rather not pledge to any particular political party.
Bibliography • For the PowerPoint • http://www.democrats.org/ under “What We Stand For” • http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0881985.html • http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0815130.html • Background http://www.montcalmdems.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/Democratic-donkey.jpg.w300h295.jpg • For the Poster donkey picture • http://waterforddemocrats.com/DemDonkey.jpg
