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In today's Washington Post, Governor Howard Dean said he plans to make a major departure from the proven economic strategy that our party adopted in the 1990s under Bill Clinton, the same economic strategy that brought us more than 22 million new jobs and the strongest economy in American history.
This is an area where the differences between the choices Howard Dean and Wes Clark would make for the country are clear.
The Clinton economic approach was to create jobs, wealth and growth by bringing labor and business together - not pitting them against each other. That's the only way to create real, long-term growth for both business and workers. And the results spoke for themselves: 22 million new jobs. 1970s-style regulation is not going to get our economy going again. It failed in the past. And it will fail again.
Clark agrees that we need to dramatically ramp up our efforts to hold corporate America responsible for their misconduct. He agrees that we need to limit media ownership. He agrees that we need far stronger protections for workers, consumers and our environment - going beyond where the Clinton administration went in several respects, as times and circumstances have changed, too.
Clark's jobs plan is based on the core Clinton formula of creating jobs by investing in urgent needs and investing in our people, especially in the hard-hit manufacturing sector.
Clark proposed a $2.35 trillion Savings for America's Future plan to restore our fiscal discipline. He supports unleashing high growth job-creation sectors like high technology and why he supports a strong science and technology program.
Clark will make unprecedented investments in our human capital: in health care, in education, in job training. He will promote smart, fair, market-based incentives regulatory reforms, rather than red tape, and volumes of outdated regulations.
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