Clark's turnaround plan for the America...Read and Discuss...I won't say

a word during the discussion...I'll just listen.

Turnaround Plan for America

General Wesley Clark will apply the lessons of a lifetime of leadership in the US Army to the challenges at home. Sunday, Clark outlined his "Turnaround Plan For America." In Clark's plan, he will give specific measurements by which Americans can hold him accountable.

"America is suffering from a leadership deficit under George W. Bush and, as a result, our country is headed in the wrong direction," Clark said. "As President, I will apply the lessons of leadership I learned in the U.S. Army to the challenges we face at home to get us going in the right direction. I am laying out five specific goals that I will accomplish during my first term in office that the American people will be able to hold me accountable for."

Over the course of the week, Clark will spend each day discussing a specific component of the Turnaround Plan for America. On Monday in New Hampshire, General Clark will offer a speech on the lesson in leadership he learned in the Army and how he will apply those lessons as President. In addition, he will specifically discuss how to improve family income. On Tuesday in New Hampshire, Clark will focus on the environment. On Wednesday, the General will be in New Hampshire discussing education. He will be in New York City on Thursday announcing his approach to child poverty. On Friday, he will be in Tennessee detailing his health care plan.

Clark has established five specific goals that will serves as the benchmarks of success for his first four years in office, including:


Family Income: To raise the typical family's income by $3,000

Environment: To put environmental protections in place that will save the 100,000 men and women whose premature deaths are expected by 2020 under the currently proposed protections

Education: To increase college enrollment by one million students

Child Poverty: To lift 2 million children out of poverty

Health Care: To extend health care coverage to the 30 million Americans currently without

A state by state breakdown can befound here...http://www.clark04.com/issues/turnaround/

This is the kind of positive message the Dems have to bring out. Its not enough to point out what a total disaster Bush has been. We have to lay out the reasons the voters should look to us to do better.

Bush wants to take us back into the past of draft and A bombs.

The Democrats want to lead us into a bright, positive future.

Wonder what the voters will choose.

I'm glad to see Clark addressing issues that would, at first glance, be his weakest-the economy and health care. I'll be interested in reading the specifics.

Since you are a Clark supporter, can you tell me what the General thinks about elisting the common people to take back America from corporate interests? Dean has definately ignited a fire under many people, including me, because this is what he's saying. I hope that this concept isn't just limited to Dean, and that all the Democratic candidates utilize this idea, especially if someone other than Dean (like Gen. Clark) gets the nomination.

from the corporate interests? I understand that Dean has lit the fire I actually like the message as well. But what would you do that takes America back from the Corporate interests. What would I do to take America back from the corporate interests.

I could vote the corporate assholes out of office. But whatelse. Is there any information that Dean has that tells me what I should do to tatke America back from the corporate interests...other than voting for him?

...Dean supporters are getting involved in local and state elections, running for office, collaborating with other cooperative ventures to advance progressive, pragmatic agendas...

The most important part of taking it back is not letting the world happen TO you, being an active, well-informed citizen...

He announced this a while ago. We have already had one national day of service and I've continued to do it and so have others. We volunteered I brought some kids to work to show them how I managed computer systems.


So Yes, Clark is working to take this country back as well.

... that Clark did at Phillips Exeter last week. Towards the end he talks about the importance of reinvigorating unions in order to provide workers with a counterbalance to corporate interests -- otherwise, he says, we'll end up with a small number of corporate elites at the top and a vast number of "industrial serfs" (that's the term he uses) at the bottom. Interesting in that 1) he's addressing an audience that one assumes is not particularly union-affiliated or union-friendly; and 2) he's talking about the role of unions in general, as part of his overall view of how the economy should work.

he basically says:
People should make more money....
People should go to school....
Kids should not be poor.....
Americans should have health care...

no shit sherlock, tell us HOW!

Here. If you really cared, you would go to his web site and read what he has written on the issues. The problem is...you just want to badmouth, insult and slam him in any thread that has "Clark" in the title. You don't want to learn what the man has to offer. You're transparent.

http://clark04.com/issues/healthcare/

http://clark04.com/issues/environment/

http://clark04.com/issues/jobcreation/

http://clark04.com/issues/education/

http://clark04.com/issues/

but I like the focus and the benchmark approach.

On the common man theme, Clark has proposed taking each corporate loophole and presenting the congress with an up or down vote. I know he feels that one of the causes of our problems is the lack of checks and balances between the branches. He blames this straying from the Constitutional intent on members wanting to blurr their votes and thus, keep their contributors happy while keeping their constituents confused.

An up or down vote on corporate loopholes will hold a few feet to the fire. He will use the bully pulpit to do the rest. Calling Tom Delay.....

Clark will also push for an increase in minimum wage. In his career the top brass earned no more than 10 times the lowest worker. When he left the military his salary was $185,000 after 34 years. I'm sure to many of his West Point classmates, those who didn't achieve a 1'st or a degree from Oxford, that was hardly on the radar of salaries. But Clark thinks it makes perfect sense.