Neither of these positions are likely to endear him to voters. The public is not clamoring for a carbon tax or for mandatory public service. But in both cases he's shown the essence of leadership, and focused on the core issues. The price of fuel should reflect the cost to our national security and our environment. And an American education should reflect our national values. Hard medicine for some, to be sure. But good policy.As far as bloggers in absentia, Jonathan Singer of MyDD,Spazeboy, and tparty of My Left Nutmeg all have great commentary on the need, scope, and ambition of the Dodd service plan.
Blog feedback on the American Community Initiative
posted by Matt Browner-Hamlin, Campaign Blogger on June 25, 2007 - 9:04am
Speaking of coverage of Senator Dodd's American Community Initiative for universal national service, Jerid was at the event on Saturday, and put up a few posts on it. You can read them here and here.
Mike Caulfield of Blue Hampshire was also in attendance and his reaction to the Dodd national service plan was very positive. This was Caulfield's second time seeing Senator Dodd roll out a major policy initiative -- the first being on Earth Day when Senator Dodd rolled out his bold energy policy. Caulfield thinks Dodd is leading the ideas race:
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Hi, I'm Angela,
I'm a film student and am working on a documentary. I am seeking to get some questions answered. I realize that a lot of the questions that I'm about to ask you are questions that you may not be able to answer but if you have someone in government that you can refer me to it would be great. I'm just trying to gather information to be put together for a documentary called One Love Addiction© in an effort to improve addiction recovery. Thank you for your time.
Here are the questions:
1. How much money was received in 2005 & 2006, from asset seizures in drug related crime arrests in the United States ?
2. Why is media allowed to market depression and other illnesses to advertise legal drugs on national television. i.e. commercials that sell anti depressants and other drugs therefore encouraging the public to resort to drugs as a false sense of well-being?
3. What procedure took place to outlaw the television media from advertising the sale of tobacco sales?
4. Can we implement these procedures to outlaw the advertisement of Alcohol and other legal drug sales on national television?
5. What is the difference between legal and illegal drug sales?
6. What is the difference between legal and illegal drug use?
7. Why is it that when a towns economy gets very poor, the drug stores flourish?
8. Why is it that when a towns economy gets very poor, the drug related crimes escalate?
9. If everyone stopped illegal drug use, smoking and drinking alcohol and resorted to natural health care tomorrow, what would that do to our governments economy?
10. How much does our system rely on drug addicts and people staying sick?
11. Why are there so many strict laws that limit the practice of natural health care?
12. Did you know that, based on Alcoholics Anonymous World Services' own statistics, Alcoholics Anonymous has only a 5% retention rate and therefore is at a 95% failure? Given these facts why is the government funding programs based on the 12 steps?