4. If You #39;re Voting Democrat/Republican - You #39;re Part of the Problem - 10/18/2014
As I get my brother and dog in the car to go home a lady in RED passes by across the street. As I get in the car - you will see in the next video - a man in ...
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4. If You're Voting Democrat/Republican - You're Part of the Problem - 10/18/2014 - Video
The papers being carried by Mr Coetzee set out four apparent "red lines" for any coalition negotiations.
There is a pledge to "balance the Budget by 2018" two years earlier than the deadline Labour has set for eradicating the deficit.
On education, the party wants every child to have a qualified teacher, putting it at odds with the Tories. Commitments to protect spending for nurseries, schools and colleges also go further than their current partners in government.
On mental health, there will be waiting time targets similar to those for physical health conditions. And there is a pledge to raise the income tax threshold to 12,500 by 2020 by increasing taxes on the rich.
Ryan Coetzee (right) was spotted with the papers (Steve Back)
The document, snapped outside the Scotland Office, also indicates that the Lib Dems will take a tougher line on immigration.
All new claimants for Jobseeker's Allowance would undergo English tests, and those assessed as "poor" will face benefit cuts unless they agree to take lessons.
The party wants to "bring back proper border checks so we know who's coming in and leaving the UK, allowing the Government to identify and deport people who overstay their visa".
The front page includes pledges to "balance the Budget by 2018" (Steve Back)
Under-21s are promised to pay just a third of their bus fares so they can get to college or work.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) Election day is just two weeks away and its looking like the voter turnout could reach a record low.
Low voter turnout translates into unpredictability and candidates dont like that.
State Representative Christina Hale says she believes her biggest opponent is apathy.
Hale is a Democrat who represents a Republican leaning district on the northeast side. She says she goes door to door on a daily basis and doesnt like what she hears from voters.
I am afraid people arent going to turn out to vote when the day comes, she said.
After a low turnout in the May primary, she worries about both a lack of interest and the weather.
You know, we had a beautiful sunny day on Election day in the Spring and, you know, our fall hasnt been going so well, she said. If we have a rainy, lousy day, I think people might choose to stay at home.
Mike Friedman is a first time Republican candidate seeking to unseat Hale. All politics is local, he said, so I think its going to come down to the issues in my district and whether they feel like I can do a better job.
But while Hale is also talking about the issues she is less worried about the challenge posed by Friedman than she is about voter apathy.
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A top Senate Democrat is taking aim at Comcast over net neutrality, arguing that its previous commitments to an open Internet won't be enough to protect consumers particularly if its merger with Time Warner Cable goes through.
In a letter to the company Monday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said Comcast should pledgeto avoid"paid prioritization" schemes that would speed up some Web site traffic over others.
Though Comcast has said it has no plans to implement paid prioritizaion, Leahy wrote,"I welcome that assertion, but I remain gravely concerned that if such agreements are permitted, market incentives may drive Comcast and other Internet service providers (ISPs) to change that position in the future."
Comcast said that it was reviewing the letter and declined to comment further. The company is already bound by the Federal Communications Commission's old net neutrality rules, thanks to a condition imposed on its 2011 merger with NBC Universal, and it has volunteered to extend those protections to any new Time Warner Cable (TWC) subscribers it picks up in this latest merger.
But consumer advocates worry about the longevity of that commitment, which expires in 2018. Beyond that date, Comcast will not be required to observe any rules other than what the FCC approves as a successor to the old net neutrality regulations, which themselves were struck down in January by a federal court.
Leahy's letter won't be a surprise to folks who've been following the Comcast merger or net neutrality; the senator has held two hearings on the open Internet this year. He's also preparing legislation with House lawmakers that would ban paid prioritization.
Still, tying the Comcast-TWC merger to net neutrality is a signal that Leahy might like to see a ban on paid prioritization imposed as a conditionforthedeal. The FCC and the Justice Department are expected to decide the fate of the proposed merger later this year.
Brian Fung covers technology for The Washington Post.
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Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is running for the U.S. Senate in the great state of Kentucky. She is a woman of conviction, of substance, of principle. I'm not an empty dress, she insists, I'm not a rubber stamp, and I am not a cheerleader! I am a Clinton Democrat.
Back when Bill Clinton first ran for president, he did so as a new kind of Democrat. He was so determined to dispel the image of the Democrats as being soft on crime that he took time off from the campaign trail to approve the execution of Ricky Ray Rector, a man so mentally disabled that when he ate his last meal, he left some of his pecan pie on his plate and told guards he was saving it for later.
Clinton vowed to reform welfare (though it took a Republican Congress to get him to follow through) and to end the era of something for nothing government handouts.
Clinton Democrats were spawns of the Democratic Leadership Council, a proudly centrist, pro-business and hawkish (by liberal standards) outfit within the Democratic Party, which is why left-wing Democrats often distrusted and occasionally despised it.
The DLC closed up shop in 2011, in large part because the Democratic Party has moved so far to the left (a fact repeatedly confirmed by Pew and Gallup surveys).
So it's interesting that Grimes, and a number of other Democrats, are calling themselves Clinton Democrats. What does she mean? When asked, she said that being a Clinton Democrat involves growing the middle class the right way.
As we saw under President Clinton's tenure, she explained, especially when you increase the minimum wage, you actually help to expand the middle class.
On another occasion, she said, We all know what being a Clinton Democrat is all about ... it's about remembering what President Clinton said in his campaign in 1992 it's the economy, stupid!
The only serious response to this has to be, Huh?
While it's true that Clinton raised the minimum wage, few economists would argue it had much to do with the booming economy of the 1990s. More to the point: President Obama has been campaigning relentlessly to increase the minimum wage. (I'd also note that the economy, stupid was James Carville's phrase, not Clinton's).
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The return of Clinton Democrats?