What this country really needs:

[ddeclue]

1) Serious limitations on lobbyists and lobbying.
2) Serious limitations on anonymous advocacy ads run without a clear understanding of who is behind them.
3) Breaking up of major media conglomerations to take them out of the hands of the corporatocracy.
4) Public financing of elections - a ban on the use of private money.
5) Automatic vote by mail in all elections.
6) Automatic voter registration.
7) Elimination of disenfranchisement based on felony convictions.
8) Breaking up of the largest corporations - if it is too big to fail, it is too big to exist even if it appears to be doing well at the moment.
9) Re-regulation of banks.
10) Restoration of the Glass-Steagall act.
11) Import taxes to level the playing field so that any goods that aren't produced to US safety, labor and environmental laws and regulations will be penalized to the point where there is no advantage for manufacturers in leaving the country to skirt all of the gains of the progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th century in some third world dictatorship as happens now.
12) Re-regulation of the credit card industry to eliminate its power to enslave millions of Americans in eternal debt.
13) Universal government run health care for all.
14) Universal free education for all people to any level they can achieve including training hundreds of thousands of new doctors for instance to drive down the rates.
15) A restoration of a more equitable tax structure by increasing top rates and uncapping social security tax.
16) Remove our dependence on foreign oil through increased use of solar, wind, hydro and nuclear power.

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1. Repeal of NAFTA and restoring the manufacturing industries in the U.S.

[MercutioATC]

2. Gee, didn't "candidate Obama" say something about revisiting NAFTA?

Or did he "never campaign on that issue" either?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. Why, you far left aspiring pony owner...

:-)

[pleah]

4. The American Dream

K&R

[Donnachaidh]

5. credit card interest cap of *10* percent.

And if they bitch about it, show them the bible references to USURY.

BAN the use of high fructose corn syrup in packaged foods.

Oh yeah -- TERM LIMITS for Congress.

[bvar22]

6. Standing with you.

Now if we only had a Political Party that stood for that stuff.

We use to have one a lot like that.

In our day these economic truths have become accepted as self-evident. We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights under which a new basis of security and prosperity can be established for all—regardless of station, race, or creed.

Among these are:

The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;

The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;

The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;

The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;

The right of every family to a decent home;

The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;

The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;

The right to a good education.

All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.

America’s own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for our citizens.---FDR's Economic Bill of Rights

Oddly enough, the Party that stood for that was also named the Democratic Party, but it bears no resemblance to the party using that name today.


The only issue I don't agree with is the Mail In Vote.
It would be easier to rig a Mail In election than what we have today with exit polls.
The only way to have a transparent, verifiable election is with paper ballots, hand counted IN PUBLIC with the tally posted on the precinct door.

[lib2DaBone]

7. What This Country Needs

1) Repeal NAFTA (gave us the SHAFTA)

2) Super-glue Rush Limbaugh to his driveway

3) Tax all TV Preachers (Federal,State and local)

4) Suspend all Kool-Aid sales until after 12 noon on Sunday

5) Make Politicians use the same health care coverage as the public

6) Teach Sarah Palin To Read a Newspaper.

[dysfunctional press]

8. a quarter-cent tax on every share of stock traded.