Americans Ready for Progressive Direction
The Campaign for America's Future has released the results of a new poll that indicates that a majority of Americans are ready to embrace not only progressive issues, but a broad progressive argument about the country's future.
Read an overview of the key findings of the poll at
www.ourfuture.org/docUploads/lake_poll_july2005.pdf
Among the findings that I find encouraging are the following:
• 70% agree "Rising health care costs are jeopardizing many families' economic security."
• 65% agree "Real family values means valuing families by having affordable health care and jobs that pay well enough to actually let families spend time with each other."
• 68% agree "We need to invest in the best education system in the world in order to remain a super power."
• 77% agree "We need to develop new, sustainable, and renewable energy sources to put us on the forefrong of new economy and create energy independence."
What do you think?
Read an overview of the key findings of the poll at
www.ourfuture.org/docUploads/lake_poll_july2005.pdf
Among the findings that I find encouraging are the following:
• 70% agree "Rising health care costs are jeopardizing many families' economic security."
• 65% agree "Real family values means valuing families by having affordable health care and jobs that pay well enough to actually let families spend time with each other."
• 68% agree "We need to invest in the best education system in the world in order to remain a super power."
• 77% agree "We need to develop new, sustainable, and renewable energy sources to put us on the forefrong of new economy and create energy independence."
What do you think?
posted by John Cleek, Ph.D. | 8:14 PM
1 Comments:
The experience in Texas parallels our experience in Kansas, especially during our recent Special Session.
One conservative legislator who himself supports education told me that there are around 40 members of the legislature who simply do not believe in public education. They will vote against any plan that increases the funding of public education as a way of crippling it and ultimately shifting support to private schools.
The good news is that in spite of very strong opposition from the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader of the House, and the Chair of the House Education Committee, we were able to pass a supplemental funding bill in the amount of $148 million which will get us by until the regular session in January.
The lesson here is that we waste our breath trying to convince these folks that education needs more money. They are not listening to us. Our time, energy, and resources in the future will be spent on carefully selected targets -- i.e., enemies of public education.
We must replace them with friends of public education!
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