In what passes for a lull between this year’s Democratic and Republican conventions I pass along the following, via Street Sense, a newspaper largely written and sold by Washington, DC area homeless men and women.
From the Democratic Party platform of 1968:
“Since 1961, we have seen…an increase of nearly 40 percent in real wages and salaries…”
From the Republican Party platform of 1968:
“We pledge…vigorous federal support to innovative state programs, using new policy techniques such as urban development corporations, to help rebuild our cities…
“We will modify the rigid welfare requirements that stifle work motivation and support locally operated children’s day care centers to free the parents to accept work.”
“We will encourage extension of private health insurance to cover mental illness.”
“The entire nation has been profoundly concerned by hastily extemporized, undeclared wars which embroil massive U.S. armed forces thousands of miles from our shores…At home, the [Johnson] Administration has failed to share with the people the full implication of our challenge and of our commitments…We will return to one of the cardinal principals of the last Republican Administration: that American interests are best served by cooperative multilateral action with our allies rather than by unilateral U.S. action.”
Street Sense cites The American Presidency Project at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Just noting.
