Post something really cool that a Democratic President is/was responsible for

taterguy

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:03 AM
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Post something really cool that a Democratic President is/was responsible for

FDR signed the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Act.

Thank you FDR

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terrya

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:04 AM
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1. The Civil Rights Act of 1964

Thank you, Lyndon Johnson.

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KharmaTrain

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:12 AM
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3. Don't Forget JFK

and RFK...they got the ball rollin' on this, LBJ used his legislative muscle to get it done.

Also don't forget about Medicare and the millions of elderly whose lives have been helped by it.

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terrya

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:17 AM
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5. Medicare is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in the history of this country.

My mom is in the hospital right now. She suffered a fall down the stairs a couple of weeks ago. She's 76.

She's facing a huge amount of medical bills...which Medicare will take care of. My mom is not even close to being wealthy...but Medicare has helped her and other elderly people. It's a godsend.

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KharmaTrain

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:22 AM
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6. All My Best Kharma To You And Your Family

I had to walk the last miles with my parents and was grateful for Medicare and supplemental coverage that handled most of their care. Medicare has extended millions of lives and is so taken for granted these days. I shutter to think where we'd be with the current "for profit" system where people are rated as risks rather than human beings.

Cheers to you...

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terrya

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:25 AM
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7. And thank you

I'm sorry to hear about your parents...but I'm glad Medicare was there to help your family.

I, too, in a country where we DESERVE to have humane universal health care, shudder to imagine what many families would do without Medicare.

And cheers to you.

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Dulcinea

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Wed Dec-26-07 11:09 AM
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33. Medicaid, too.

Edited on Wed Dec-26-07 11:10 AM by Dulcinea

My MIL is in a nursing home. She has Alzheimer's and arthritis so severe that she's bedridden. She worked very hard all her life & needs skilled nursing care. Medicaid pays for that.

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iamjoy

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:06 AM
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2. FMLA

Thank you, President Clinton.

I know I could have listed one of the many things from FDR, but I chose the Family Medical Leave Act specifically because the first President Bush really didn't care if people lost their jobs due to temporary illness and this was something Clinton did early in his presidency. It has personally helped me more than once.

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ThomWV

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:14 AM
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4. JFK Responsible for WD-40

Water Deterent version 40, developed by NASA, funded after a call for action by JFK.

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StinkyMcPinknose

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Tue Dec-25-07 12:08 PM
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26. You should straighten the company out on their history

http://www.wd40.com/AboutUs/our_history.html

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brazos121200

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:25 AM
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8. Social Security by Franklin Roosevelt. Something the

repubs opposed at the time and have been trying to overturn ever since. Lately they have been trying to "privatize" it and have not had much success. Social Security has helped many lower and middle income people in their later years live a better quality of life. Of course the repubs oppose this, they want only to help their corporate allies.

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lonestarnot

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:30 AM
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9. unemployment insurance....

the pugs hate this one!

http://www.dol.ks.gov/UI/html/enhist_DBR.html

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Octafish

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:33 AM
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10. Humans on the Moon.

The space program brouoght many direct benefits down to Earth, as well, including the integrated circuit -- the device that made possible affordable computing.

BTW: JFK wanted to keep NASA a civilian program as exploration makes for sustainable economic development rather than warfare and its human limitations.

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PeaceNikki

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:41 AM
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11. Women's Suffrage Amendment

Edited on Tue Dec-25-07 10:42 AM by PeaceNikki

Go us!!

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PeaceNikki

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:44 AM
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12. Voting Rights Act of 1965

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PeaceNikki

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:46 AM
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13. Peace Corps

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L. Coyote

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Tue Dec-25-07 03:30 PM
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30. Peace Corps tops my personal list.

A Brief Note Regarding Campa Medical Practices
http://jqjacobs.net/writing/ethnomed.html

While serving in the Peace Corps in a remote area .....

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Cass

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:46 AM
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14. Clinton - SCHIP health care program for children

Great program. Shame on Bush for vetoing its expansion.

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PeaceNikki

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:47 AM
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15. Clean Air Act

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taterguy

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:49 AM
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16. Actually I think Nixon signed that

But I could be wrong

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PeaceNikki

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Tue Dec-25-07 10:54 AM
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17. I initially didn't see the word "president" in your OP

Edited on Tue Dec-25-07 10:56 AM by PeaceNikki

:blush:

Since the Democratic Congress was responsible for it.

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Hippo_Tron

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:39 AM
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23. The Clean Air Act was passed in 1963

Nixon signed the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 because if he vetoed it Congress would've overridden it anyway.

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jmowreader

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Wed Dec-26-07 12:48 PM
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34. These days, Nixon would have to run as a Democrat

Except for the fact that all four are/were crooks, there is no similarity between Richard Nixon and the last three Repuke presidents.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:08 AM
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18. Jimmy Carter: solar panels on the WH, and getting the Iran hostages released. (Yeah, sure

Edited on Tue Dec-25-07 11:09 AM by GreenPartyVoter

Reagan was in office by the time they came home, but it was Carter's team who did all the legwork.)

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EFerrari

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:16 AM
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19. Jimmy Carter wrote a book of poetry and asked his granddaughter

to illustrate it. :)

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alfredo

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:19 AM
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20. Family Medical Leave Act 2003. Bubba Clinton

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alfredo

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:20 AM
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21. LBJ - Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

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alfredo

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:22 AM
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22. LBJ- Higher Education Act of 1965 -Medicare Medicaid

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Hippo_Tron

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:40 AM
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24. Preventing this country from falling to dictatorship

Thank you FDR

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Kansas Wyatt

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Tue Dec-25-07 11:54 AM
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25. Everything good that comes from our government, that Repukes....

Enjoy, like Social Security, unemployment insurance, labor laws, etc. etc. etc.

Hey, what the Hell have republicans done again?

They have fought and tried to block all these Progressive steps every step of the way. To add insult to injury, they even claim that they are the ones who gave these things to the people. I shit you not, there are average republicans out there who really believe this.

That commercial that shows the difference between Progressives and Conservatives, needs to be shown every day, over and over again, until the the people of this country have had the republican brainwashing removed.

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Dulcinea

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Tue Dec-25-07 01:44 PM
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27. The 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.

So far, President Carter is the only one who has been able to broker any kind of lasting peace in the Middle East.

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shadowknows69

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Tue Dec-25-07 01:45 PM
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28. Jimmy Carter grew peanuts

And really, are there many foods greater on this good earth than peanut butter? Oh, there was that Sadat/Begin thing too.

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Didereaux

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Tue Dec-25-07 03:14 PM
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29. After FDR saved the nation...nothing but the following

Truman dropped the bomb and went to Korea
Kennedy got himself shot
Johnson killed 58,000 American troops
Carter lost some helicopters in the desert
Clinton got a BJ

Our record is less than stellar, albeit the Cheney administration has balanced the books single-handedly and we look good again.

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Touchdown

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Tue Dec-25-07 03:35 PM
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31. While not when he was President... The Constitution/Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson. One of our Greatest!

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H2O Man

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Tue Dec-25-07 04:06 PM
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32. JFK

understood the Power of Ideas. And he communicated that.

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