lp families pay for college， or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement？

It s not because John McCain doesn t care. It s because John McCain doesn t get it.

For over two decades， he s subscribed to that old， discredited Republican philosophy give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington， they call this the Ownership Society， but what it really means is you re on your own. Out of work？ Tough luck. No health care？ The market will fix it. Born into poverty？ Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps even if you don t have boots. You re on your own.

Well it s time for them to own their failure. It s time for us to change America.

You see， we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country.

We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage； whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President when the average American family saw its income go up $7，500 instead of down $2，000 like it has under George Bush.

We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500， but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business， or whether the waitress who lives on tips c