Edwards on Families

Using the Clinton Administration's successful Family Policies as a blueprint, Sen. John Edwards during a speech Wednesday at George Washington University laid out his "Promoting Strong Families". Excerpt:

"Before September 11, this administration's central domestic policy was budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Today, even as the bill for those tax cuts continues to climb, the cost of war is terribly unclear, the litany of unmet domestic security needs remains ignored, and families are struggling to make ends meet, what is the administration's central domestic policy? Budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Thanks to this administration's economic policies, Americans are working harder, making less, and spending less time with their families. Thanks to its security policies, Americans are more frightened, and less secure, than they should be. Thanks to this administration's fondness for special interests, one of the greatest social challenges of our time, how to help people do right by their families, is getting worse because Washington won't do a thing to help.

This president is out of touch with America's families. If you're a parent who is worried because the crime rate in your town is going up again, this president's message is: Start taking self-defense classes, because we're going to gut the initiative that put 100,000 cops on the beat."