In these days of fractured and polarized political opinions, it’s easy to forget the facts behind many of the most popular rights of life today in America. Rights that we too often take for granted. Let’s not forget that Liberals: got women the right to vote, created social security and medicare and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty, passed the clean air and water acts, and under Clinton created a federal budget surplus. Let’s not forget that Conservatives voted against these advances. Let’s not forget that the much-lauded tax cut under the current administration will result in a much bigger deficit for our grandchildren to deal with. If you want to give these rights of life a chance to continue in America, including here in Fillmore County, you really must vote DFL on November 6.
Jon Dahl
Spring Valley, Minn.
Magnolia says
While I would agree that these are days of fractured and polarized political opinions, I think we might want to put a bit sharper point on the pencil in order for the information to be factual. The information regarding the Liberal Agenda is disingenuous.
The Women’s Right to vote was a Republican led fight. At the request of Susan B. Anthony, Sen. A.A. Sargent, a Republican from California, introduced the 19th Amendment in 1878. Sargent’s amendment (also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment) was defeated four times by a Democrat-controlled Senate. When the Republican Party regained control of Congress in 1919, the Equal Suffrage Amendment finally passed the House in May of that year and in the Senate in June.
When the Amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were Democratic. Twelve states, all Republican, had given women full suffrage before the federal amendment was ratified.
As far as social security is concerned, President Clinton had promised to protect Social Security, to reduce the debt to the maximum extent possible, to control spending, and reduce taxes. But, Congress’ official estimators show that on all four counts, the President’s budget fails. Instead, Clinton’s budget raided the Social Security trust fund for $158 billion in five years, it artificially erased the surplus, it lowers the public debt less than doing nothing would, it increases spending, and it raises taxes by $89.7 billion over the 1999-2009 period. The surplus was an illusion.
It is unfortunate that the American Public tends to believe what comes out of the talking heads rather than researching and learning the true facts for themselves. My advice is the tact I take myself. Study and show ones self approved. Read everything available and question everything. The America we know and love will pass in the blink of one generation if we do not stop the socialist liberal policies that would turn us in to nothing more than another chapter in a history book.
Nothing in the current administrations policies would subvert any of the American values that we hold so dear. Unless we wish to fall into ruin, we must vote to hold the line.
Thomas E.H. says
Magnolia,
//The Women’s Right to vote was a Republican led fight. At the request of Susan B. Anthony, Sen. A.A. Sargent, a Republican from California, introduced the 19th Amendment in 1878. Sargent’s amendment (also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment) was defeated four times by a Democrat-controlled Senate. When the Republican Party regained control of Congress in 1919, the Equal Suffrage Amendment finally passed the House in May of that year and in the Senate in June.
When the Amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were Democratic. Twelve states, all Republican, had given women full suffrage before the federal amendment was ratified. //
The Republicans were more liberal back then than the Democrats, who were the conservatives. That’s probably why Jon specifically said “Liberals” not “Democrats”. The ideologies of the parties changed between then and now. So, once again, Republicans were not always the conservatives and the Democrats were not always the liberals.
//Nothing in the current administrations policies would subvert any of the American values that we hold so dear.//
I think this clearly shows the difference in values between you and millions of other people. I hold clean air and water as a value. I’m quite sure the current policies of this administration is quite damaging to the quality of life for many people on that singe front alone.