A couple possible sound bites for Dems

[MN ChimpH8R]

These just came to me last night and might be useful somewhere down the road, and they echo JFK, so here goes:

Under * the Security Gap has greatly increased. Not just militarily, but economically. The average person has far less job security, health security and retirement security than s/he had just five years ago. Militarily, the US has over-stretched its forces in an unnecessary and elective war, leaving little should there be a real attack from a genuine adversary. The Iraq quagmire has turned into the greatest recruiting opportunity that any Islamic extremist group could have hoped for. Uncontrolled deficit spending reduces the economic security of this generation and the next. Ignoring environmental degradation imperils the security of everyone on the planet, including Americans

The * administration has presided over an unprecedented growth in the Prosperity Gap. Everyone but the top 2% has seen their economic position worsen under *. Average families have to work harder and harder and all their costs rise on a monthly basis - food, energy, health care, but there are never any wage increases. All of the benefits of allegedly increased productivity are soaked up by the top 2%. Jobs are outsourced, wages and benefits are cut. Who benefits from the Prosperity Gap? Not working Americans.

Democrats stand unequivocally for reducing the Security Gap and the Prosperity Gap. We will attack these problems vigorously by implementing policies that favor the average American over the wealthiest among us, by cooperating with the world instead of defying it, and by working to solve problems rather than create them or pass them on to future generations.

[tk2kewl]

1. I like it.

:thumbsup:

[spindrifter]

2. Mind the Gap!

The Brits already have the t-shirts printed up.

[MadJohnShaft]

4. 'I Mind the Gap' - great shirt!

[tinrobot]

3. Too complex...

I like the concept, but break it down into sound bites:

The * administration has presided over an unprecedented growth in the Prosperity Gap. Everyone but the top 2% has seen their economic position worsen under *. Average families have to work harder and harder and all their costs rise on a monthly basis - food, energy, health care, but there are never any wage increases. All of the benefits of allegedly increased productivity are soaked up by the top 2%. Jobs are outsourced, wages and benefits are cut. Who benefits from the Prosperity Gap? Not working Americans.

We have a prosperity gap. The rich are getting richer while the average American is left footing the bill.

The cost of supporting a family keeps rising and on top of that, jobs are being sent overseas at an alarming rate.

...or something like that.

[electropop]

5. That's what I was thinking.

The OP wrote a decent speech, but there were no sound bites. You've boiled it down.

Our only exports are jobs and troops and cash.
We are importing troops' corpses like crazy.