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Preparing Our Country for the 21st Century : The Official Transcript of the United We Stand America Conference


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Budget & Economy
   Alan Keyes: Can’t address budget deficit until we address moral deficit.
   Dick Armey: Improve economy by encouraging savings via tax code.
   Dick Gephardt: People are working harder for same wages.
   Lamar Alexander: Reduce government to spur growth.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Back out of debt the same way we got in.
Civil Rights
   Alan Keyes: Affirmative action turns back the clock.
   Pat Buchanan: Tear out diversity programs, root and branch.
Crime
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: 4 Balls, not 3 Strikes.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: More African-American parolees than graduates.
Defense
   Lamar Alexander: Stop the free fall in defense spending.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Pentagon is largest federal source of waste, fraud & abuse.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Defense pork projects are immoral.
Drugs
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Crack vs. powder is black vs. white.
Education
   Lamar Alexander: Allow organized voluntary prayer in public schools.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Lifetime of prayer, not one minute in school.
Environment
   Dick Gephardt: Use gas tax for highway infrastructure.
Families & Children
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Nurture, not police.
   Tommy Thompson: Demand child support or fathers face jail.
Foreign Policy
   Pat Buchanan: End New World Order; end foreign aid.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Let Europe & Japan share more of defense burden.
Free Trade
   Dick Gephardt: Fair trade on an equal playing field.
   Pat Buchanan: GATT surrenders our national sovereignty.
   Pat Buchanan: We will rue the day we passed NAFTA.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: American workers can’t compete with slave labor.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Working people cannot afford adding Chile to NAFTA.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Joined with Perot as “Odd Couple” in opposing NAFTA.
Government Reform
   Alan Keyes: Call halt to “War on this” and “War on that”.
   Alan Keyes: Only valid reason to go to Washington is to break up power.
   Dick Gephardt: Limit campaigns to 8 weeks, with no TV.
   Lamar Alexander: Complete Reagan Revolution with term limits & line-item veto.
   Pat Buchanan: Term limits for federal judges.
   Tommy Thompson: Common sense over “government sense”.
Health Care
   Dick Gephardt: Health care reform: no selective insurance.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Balance budget to afford comprehensive coverage.
   Tommy Thompson: Let states reform Medicaid; fight “one size fits all”.
Immigration
   Pat Buchanan: Treat illegal immigration as an invasion & repel it.
Principles & Values
   Ross Perot: UWSA: Focus on issues & solutions without special interests.
School Choice
   Lamar Alexander: Give school decisions back to families.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Choice schools to choice children is un-American.
Tax Reform
   Dick Armey: Flat tax of 17% for businesses too.
   Dick Armey: Flat tax of 17% with family allowance of $33,000.
   Dick Armey: 3/5 super-majority to raise tax rates.
   Dick Armey: Tax unearned income at same rate as regular income.
   Dick Armey: Replace home mortgage deduction with bigger standard ded.
   Dick Armey: Eliminate charitable deduction.
   Dick Gephardt: Remove special interests from tax code.
   Lamar Alexander: Flatter, fairer, simpler federal income tax.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Richest 1% benefit from tax cuts; should be working poor.
War & Peace
   Pat Buchanan: Casualties “in the service of the UN” breaches sovereignty.
Welfare & Poverty
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: We spend more on corporate welfare than on AFDC.
   Rev. Jesse Jackson: Poor are not lazy; they do our dirty work.
   Tommy Thompson: No government handouts; demand something in return.
   Tommy Thompson: Supports block grants to foster state experimentation.


The above quotations are from Preparing Our Country for the 21st Century : The Official Transcript of the United We Stand America Conference.

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