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We believe that health care is a right for all New Mexicans through a system of universal health care. Every New Mexican should have ready access to high-quality health care. We support disease prevention and health promotion through public school curriculum including wellness, nutrition, comprehensive sex education, and mental health. We support programs for early screening…
Okay. This deserves one response, humanitarianism. Either you believe in humanity as being something we ought to look out for, or you don’t. Republicans have said again and again that the private enterprise system is the solution for so many of these problems. If that is the case, then why, in so many years haven’t the private enterprise doctors, insurance companies, hospitals, and medical community officials solved the healthcare crisis? Hmmmm…. Probably because they can’t be trusted to be humanitarians without some assistance. Of course doctors want to save lives, and make people better, but we need to make it so that they can do that without worrying about the bottom line, and quite frankly I’m loathe to believe that the solution to that is “loosening” bureaucratic restrictions. Um, why did John Edwards sue a swimming pool company for millions of dollars? Not because it would bring back the lives of the children the pools were responsible for killing, but because the swimming pool company recognized it was more cost effective for them to keep making the pools and pay settlements, than to change the design to protect the children in them. (It is important to note this case was about a pool company that made pools with large, incredibly powerful drainage holes into the filtering system. Children, even while wearing floatation devices were being sucked into the holes, resulting in over 10 deaths, because the children were actually torn into pieces from the pressure.) Is this the enterprise system we want finding solutions to the healthcare crisis? At least with swimming pools lives aren’t directly in the hands of the system in question.
State and local governments should actively support a sound economy by encouraging good business practices, protecting consumers through clear and effective regulatory practices and by creating an atmosphere that encourages responsible and ethical business. Labor and management should continue to build innovative partnerships that develop the economy for the benefit of New Mexico.
Who can argue with this? How is this not clear already, as being necessary? Democrats believe in clear, concise, regulations to protect the minority. The country was founded wit the goal of preserving the majority while protecting the minority, meaning; in this situation, the entity with less power. Businesses have controlled our government for long enough, lets return things to the hands of the people a bit, and let individuals be responsible for their destiny. Economic development is not all incentives, tax relief, and attracting new, uncompassionate businesses. Economic development occurs when we build community friendly, principled and ethical business-consumer partnerships.
Protection of our state’s natural beauty and natural resources is essential. Citizens, organizations, government and industry must all work together to conserve clean water, air and land, and the expansive vistas that define the Land of Enchantment.
Enough said? I think so. This is possible to accomplish without throwing us into depression, but Republicans will have you believe this isn’t true. But the oil-gas base umbilical cord and you’ll find the truth.
All discrimination must be eliminate in housing, employment and public services; including discrimination based on race, religions, mental and physical disability, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We support every person’s right to make personal decisions and to have access to the full range of reproductive health choices. We believe that all adults should be trusted to make moral and ethical decisions regarding their own lives.
The only way we can expect people to be actively part of making their society better, is if they are trusted to make their own lives better as well.
We believe that health care is a right for all New Mexicans through a system of universal health care. Every New Mexican should have ready access to high-quality health care. We support disease prevention and health promotion through public school curriculum including wellness, nutrition, comprehensive sex education, and mental health. We support programs for early screening…
Okay. This deserves one response, humanitarianism. Either you believe in humanity as being something we ought to look out for, or you don’t. Republicans have said again and again that the private enterprise system is the solution for so many of these problems. If that is the case, then why, in so many years haven’t the private enterprise doctors, insurance companies, hospitals, and medical community officials solved the healthcare crisis? Hmmmm…. Probably because they can’t be trusted to be humanitarians without some assistance. Of course doctors want to save lives, and make people better, but we need to make it so that they can do that without worrying about the bottom line, and quite frankly I’m loathe to believe that the solution to that is “loosening” bureaucratic restrictions. Um, why did John Edwards sue a swimming pool company for millions of dollars? Not because it would bring back the lives of the children the pools were responsible for killing, but because the swimming pool company recognized it was more cost effective for them to keep making the pools and pay settlements, than to change the design to protect the children in them. (It is important to note this case was about a pool company that made pools with large, incredibly powerful drainage holes into the filtering system. Children, even while wearing floatation devices were being sucked into the holes, resulting in over 10 deaths, because the children were actually torn into pieces from the pressure.) Is this the enterprise system we want finding solutions to the healthcare crisis? At least with swimming pools lives aren’t directly in the hands of the system in question.
State and local governments should actively support a sound economy by encouraging good business practices, protecting consumers through clear and effective regulatory practices and by creating an atmosphere that encourages responsible and ethical business. Labor and management should continue to build innovative partnerships that develop the economy for the benefit of New Mexico.
Who can argue with this? How is this not clear already, as being necessary? Democrats believe in clear, concise, regulations to protect the minority. The country was founded wit the goal of preserving the majority while protecting the minority, meaning; in this situation, the entity with less power. Businesses have controlled our government for long enough, lets return things to the hands of the people a bit, and let individuals be responsible for their destiny. Economic development is not all incentives, tax relief, and attracting new, uncompassionate businesses. Economic development occurs when we build community friendly, principled and ethical business-consumer partnerships.
Protection of our state’s natural beauty and natural resources is essential. Citizens, organizations, government and industry must all work together to conserve clean water, air and land, and the expansive vistas that define the Land of Enchantment.
Enough said? I think so. This is possible to accomplish without throwing us into depression, but Republicans will have you believe this isn’t true. But the oil-gas base umbilical cord and you’ll find the truth.
All discrimination must be eliminate in housing, employment and public services; including discrimination based on race, religions, mental and physical disability, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We support every person’s right to make personal decisions and to have access to the full range of reproductive health choices. We believe that all adults should be trusted to make moral and ethical decisions regarding their own lives.
The only way we can expect people to be actively part of making their society better, is if they are trusted to make their own lives better as well.
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