not my state, but appreciate the candidate...
Jobs
Infrastructure: Repair Americas roads and bridges.
Transportation: Light rail to get people to work
heavy rail for factories.
Water: Upgrade water and sewage systems.
Conservation: Planting trees addresses climate change.
Education: Reinvigorate our schools by hiring artists, writers, musicians, engineers, math and computer geeks, and returning veterans.
Trade
China is charging a de facto 30% tariff on U.S. goods.
We have a trade deficit with China that now approaches $1 billion PER DAY.
If China wont drop trade barriers, we need to consider imposition of a 30 percent tariff on all Chinese goods.
(Thats the way to bring back manufacturing jobs in WNC and across our nation.)
Renegotiate NAFTA and CAFTA to include worker and environmental protection.
Wall Street
Regulate Wall St. to prevent another financial collapse.
Protect consumers from predatory lending.
End corporate personhood; overturn Citizens United.
Public financing for elections: government not for sale.
Restore the right to collective bargaining: CardChek.
Education
Reform No Child Left Behind.
More flexibility and fairness in our accountability system.
Bigger investment in teachers and principals.
A sharper focus on schools and students most at risk.
Free Public Education from preschool through four years of college.
The Social Safety Net
Social Security: Remove the cap! The wealthy are only taxed up to $106,000.
Medicare: Remove the cap! No cuts; instead, Medicare for all as the public option.
Medicaid: No cuts; this program serves the truly needy, especially children.
Womens issues
Equal pay for equal work.
Full funding for Planned Parenthood and domestic violence prevention programs.
Abortion should be legal, safe and rare.
Paid parental leave for one parent for the first five years of a womans first two childrens lives.
The National Debt
Allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, implement Financial Transaction Tax.
Require millionaires, billionaires, and corporations to pay their fair share.
Cut the Pentagon budget. End the endless wars. Out of Afghanistan, now.
Cut farm subsidies to agribusiness.