Edwards Speech - Pure Inspiration
http://media.libsyn.com/media/oac/John_Edwards_020.mp3This is the direct download link for John Edwards' latest Podcast episode, which includes his speech to the National Press Club.
It is inspiring to hear a leading candidate for the Presidency in 2008 making issues of the poor his top priority. This guy could be talking about anything (or nothing).
God bless him.
End Poverty In Three Decades: John Edwards
In an email this morning from the
One America Committee, John Edwards says " I believe we can end poverty in the United States within 30 years. We can start by cutting poverty by one-third over the course of the next decade. That's moving 12 million Americans out of poverty in ten years."
Specific policy goals outlined in the email are as follows.
- Make Work Pay Fairly
- Radically Overhaul Federal Housing
- Make College Affordable
- Stop Settling for Failing Schools
The Senator goes on to say "Achieving bold goals like ending poverty in the United States within 30 years will not be easy. It will take the best in us - our sacrifice, commitment, hard work and deep faith. But how we respond to the plain fact that millions of our own people are living in squalor and despair says everything about our Party and the country we believe in."