My
name is Chris Gramazio, and I'm a member of your community, a
husband and father of one (with another on the way). I'm
your neighbor, your co-worker, your citizen. I am at the beginning of a new journey, a journey that we
can make together. What I can offer you is the courage, the
vision and the voice to speak for those so long silenced
and disenfranchised with a system that has all but forgotten
them. To bring back the voice of America's not so distant
past, the voice of those proud individuals who everyday get up
to face another dawn with hope in their hearts and belief in
their minds. The voice of the working and middle class.
I refer to the four defining issues
of the middle class as Live, Learn, Move
and Money:
HEALTH CARE
- Potentially the
most important issue facing the working/middle class and the
poor today. The need for an affordable/universal health care
plan is long overdue and the lack of any system in the most
developed country in the world is reaching epidemic
proportions.
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EDUCATION -
The Bush Administration's No Child Left
Behind Act has not only left the children behind, but the
educators as well. Its reliance on standardized
testing that was supposed to close the gap between white and
minority students, has failed. Its "one-size fits all"
approach to education has failed. Its lack of funding
has failed us all: parents, teachers and students.
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TRANSPORTATION - We are living in a
time where the
vast arteries that supply our
nation with its life blood, whether it
be goods or our workforce, are being neglected, under-funded, poorly
planned and left in disrepair. We have a nation that allocates
only a small sliver of its budget to the core
that defines it as a developed nation: our roads and everything that
goes along with them.
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ECONOMY -
Our nation's economy is in crisis.
We're faced with stagnant wages, growing inflation, a fading dollar,
the fallout of the subprime mortgage meltdown, and a tax system that
leaves the middle class behind. It's time to stop
favoring only our nation's wealthiest and start giving back
to those whose shoulders this country rests upon.
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