The immediate, radical changes that America needs in order to survive. Lots of them.

[Zalatix]

Look at what has happened to America in just the last 30 years:

1. Half of working class America's wealth has been lost in the last 4 years.
2. The economy is rapidly descending into a Plutonomy so bad that even immigration is down.
3. Unions are disappearing. We couldn't even get Scott Walker kicked out of office. Unions lost face across most of the country as a result.
4. Global warming is proceeding apace. Ocean acidification. And now the nastiest drought in the United States since the 1930s Dust Bowl. So you can add skyrocketing food prices to what the 99% has got to deal with.
5. A coast to coast assault on women's rights.
6. Rainforests are being cut down like wheat before the scythe.
7. Global water supplies are dwindling into crisis level shortages.
8. America is leading the way with extrajudicial executions and the killing of innocent bystanders on a scale that makes MyLai look like a Facebook internet brawl.
9. Diebold. Citizens United. Foreign nations are intervening in American elections with their multibillion dollar campaign contributions.
10. Our nation's infrastructure is collapsing with funding perpetually coming up short.
11. Mass privatization and disaster capitalism are running amuck. Elected officials are being replaced with private industry managers in Michigan.
12. Public worker pensions are going byebye, and private sector pensions are long gone.
13. Minority unemployment is sky high.
14. The Reagan revolution is still running wild.
15. Corporate profits are running wild, productivity is way up, but wages aren't keeping pace with productivity or inflation.
16. $21 trillion has been moved out of nations' economies into offshore Galt Gulches.

Can anyone explain how we're going to solve this with "small, incremental steps"?

Ya damned right I posted this before. Because these problems are still with us, and if the status quo remains, they will only get worse.

We need to do something about this, now. Something big. Somethings big. We don't have time for bullshit "small incremental steps" out of the hole we're in. We've already got millions sweltering under a killer drought and the world about to be hit with another food crisis. How hard does nature have to hit America in order for America to ditch the loser concept of "small, incremental steps"? How hard does the economy have to hit America?

Stage 4 cancer requires major chemotherapy. Take a look at America's wheat fields and the sheer number of our homeless and ask yourself... what stage is this cancer we're dealing with?

This is my list of SPECIFIC changes that we need to make. NOW.


We need to start building solar plants in America. LOTS of them. Using the technology that is available to us. Germany did it, on a very large scale. Spain has a solar power plant that can run at night. We can do this, and we need to build these plants with American workers and American hardware. We need solar on Every. Damned. Roof. We need to start ditching coal-fired power plants.

The government needs to start subsidizing the construction of urban vertical farms. And subsidies for window farms as well. Food prices are going up, folks. We can attack this problem or we can let it whallop us... what'll it be?

We need countervailing tariffs that strike right at the cheap labor movement among corporations. If you want to exploit cheap labor, prepare to pay a high price to sell that stuff in America. We need tariffs against products made in high-polluting countries. We haven't made pollution go away - all we've done is outsource our pollution to other nations. This cannot continue. Neither can all the tax breaks we give companies to move overseas. That's gotta GO. ASAP.

We need subsidies for electric cars and electric-hybrid cars. And more research into fuel cells. We need better intra-city rail systems and high speed inter-city rail to help cut down on the number of cars on the road.

We need a nationwide law banning all "emergency manager" laws. Elected officials should NEVER be replaced by appointees.

We need to put an immediate end to the use of drones and the policy of summary executions. To hell with the "but it puts our troops in harm's way" excuse - our policy of summary executions is killing innocent civilians and bystanders. To that we must say not just no, but HELL NO!

We need to target those who move their money out of the United States to avoid taxes and put them behind bars. Confiscate their assets. And summarily execute their foreign bank accounts. At the very least, cut them off from their assets. Send an unambiguous and strong message that we won't tolerate that crap. Take their money and use it to fund the rebuilding of our infrastructure using American workers.

Democrat women and all conscientious men need to rise up en masse, 24/7. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Demand the ERA. Every second of every fucking hour, and damn anyone who pushes back. Demonstrate, protest, and if the police thugs jump bad, make them know there's not enough fucking money OR jails to hold your numbers! ERA or bust. ERA or break America in half. ERA or everything, everywhere, grinds to a total screeching halt.

We must demand a total moratorium on fracking and blowing off mountaintops for coal. Put an immediate end to the poisoning of our environment and our water supplies. We ain't got much of that left, folks.

America must enact laws that impose automatic eminent domain on bank-held houses that are not sold within a year. And we need to work out an eminent domain program for houses whose mortgages are underwater. To hell with the banks and Wall Street.

Eliminate the Social Security taxable maximum. Make payroll taxes apply to the first ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of earnings. Tie the Social Security COLA to 1% above inflation or the consumer price index, WHICHEVER IS HIGHER.

Adjust unemployment insurance coverage to cover workers indefinitely in states with unemployment over 8%. Across the board.

Make the CAPITAL GAINS TAX equal to the TAXES ON WAGES. Go back to the top marginal individual income tax rate of 70.1% in the pre-Reagan years.

Institute a national LIVABLE WAGE law that is significantly higher than the national minimum wage. Tie it to inflation.

End the "war on terror". Use that money to fund free higher public education for everyone, and better salaries for ALL teachers.

Medicare For All. NOW.

Make it ILLEGAL for background checking services, medical companies or financial institutions to move personal information overseas. Offer a FAT BOUNTY for anyone who breaks this law.

Follow STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA's example and pass a national law guaranteeing that in case of a municipal bankruptcy, the pensioners get covered first.

Nationalize the banks.

95% taxation on any CEO pay that exceeds 50 times the average wages of their employees. If they don't like it they can take their company elsewhere and enjoy very high tariffs while trying to sell their bullshit here.

Overturn Citizens United... by any means necessary. Along with corporate personhood.

Edited to add: KILL the USAPATRIOT Act, completely demilitarize the police forces across the country, eliminate warrantless surveillance, and abolish the death penalty, nationwide.