Dennis Kucinich in Survey of 2006 House campaign websites
On Abortion:
Women’s right-to-choose is essential to gender equality
A woman’s right-to-choose must be protected as essential to personal privacy and gender equality. Only those who agree to uphold Roe v. Wade should be nominated for the Supreme Court. I have a plan to reduce abortions by encouraging family planning,
including abstinence training, combined with a full economic and health care plan that would clearly alleviate the number of abortions. Voters have a choice for a real plan to reduce the number of abortions with a program of economic justice.
Source: 2006 House campaign website, www.kucinich.us
Nov 7, 2006
On Education:
Quality education is a core American right
Since education is the only proven way to reduce poverty, it is unacceptable that a child’s education be dependent on where they are born or the financial status of their family. The federal government spends only 2.9% of its budget on education.
This must change. Quality education is a core American right and value. Schools need money to decrease class size, increase teachers’ salaries, renovate decaying facilities, and for pre-kindergarten and after-school programs.
Source: 2006 House campaign website, www.kucinich.us
Nov 7, 2006
On Free Trade:
Withdraw from NAFTA and WTO
The global trade regime of NAFTA and WTO has enriched multinational corporations. But for workers, family farmers, and the environment, it has meant a global race to the bottom.
Companies leave the US in search of low wages, low commodity prices, anti-union climates, and lax environmental laws.
NAFTA has been used to whipsaw workers at the negotiation table, forcing wages and benefit concessions under threat of moving jobs overseas. Trade treaties must be conditioned on workers’ rights, human rights, and environmental principles.
The U.S. must withdraw from NAFTA and the WTO--and replace these with bilateral fair trade agreements.
Source: 2006 House campaign website, www.kucinich.us
Nov 7, 2006
On Health Care:
Streamlined national health insurance as Enhanced Medicare
The current profit-driven system, dominated by private insurance firms & their bureaucracies, has failed. We must establish streamlined national health insurance, Enhanced Medicare for All. It would be publicly-financed health care, privately delivered,
and will put patients & doctors back in control of the system. Coverage will be more complete than private insurance plans; encourage prevention; and include prescription drugs, dental care, mental health care, & alternative and complementary medicine.
Source: 2006 House campaign website, www.kucinich.us
Nov 7, 2006
On Homeland Security:
Repeal the Patriot Act
The “Patriot Act” is not what American patriots have fought and died for. To allow our Bill of Rights to be nullified without judicial supervision invites tyranny. The Attorney General has been handed unfettered power to wiretap, search,
jail, and invade our most sacred right to privacy. The government must not be allowed, without probable cause or warrant, to snoop on our communications, medical records, library records, and student records.
Source: 2006 House campaign website, www.kucinich.us
Nov 7, 2006
On War & Peace:
International Cooperation: US out of Iraq, UN in
International Cooperation: US out of Iraq, UN in: America must return to its role as the most admired--not hated--nation. The doctrine of “pre-emption” must be retired, as well as the current aggressive, unilateralist foreign policy that makes our
homeland less secure, not more. Our security will be enhanced by working with other nations and the UN instead of acting like an Empire. I continue to work to implement two measures I sponsored in Congress: the Space Preservation
Treaty, which bans space-based weapons, and a cabinet-level Department of Peace, to establish nonviolence as an organizing principle in both domestic and international affairs.
We must cut bloated and unneeded weaponry from a military budget that now
almost equals the military spending of all other countries combined. The resulting peace dividend can then be invested in other pressing domestic needs.
Source: 2006 House campaign website, www.kucinich.us
Nov 7, 2006
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