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+ Wars = DONE. Wasteful pieces of Bewsh-shit.
Iraq, yes. Afghanistan, no. I want out as badly as anybody else does, but unless we are willing to have every Afghan who has ever worked with us be flown to the US, we can't go just yet. Get out as quickly as possible, though.
+ Pentasewer = defunded and defanged substantially. Troops - employed to rebuild infrastructure. We're no longer the world's oil cops.
Unfortunately, without us to be those oil cops, we'll have a major war in the Middle East within months and oil at $300 a barrel by Thanksgiving. I don't need to explain the consequences for the economy, I hope. I'd be telling them to chop the budget 20% without decreasing strength. The Pentagon's bureaucracy is a mess, go through that. One my one addition to the American Armed forces would be dedicated disaster alert teams, with all the humanitarian equipment needed to handle major disasters. Next time we get a Haitian Earthquake or an Asian Tsunami, USAF C-17s with all the specialists necessary to save lives and alleviate suffering will be there. I was also thinking of traveling units made up of volunteer doctors going around the world, providing free medical care in places less fortunate than us. And kicking 20% from the Pentagon budget is a savings of $110 Billion, even before the cheaper costs from no wars - how many miles of new highway or how many new schools will that build?
+ Three Words = Universal Motherfucking Health CARE.
No argument from me. HR 676 would be passed ASAP, and if the insurance companies don't like it, tough shit. It would also be mandated that all health care providers in the United States be legally required to take the government insurance - each case of denial of care is a 15-month jail sentence.
+ Three More Words = Mandatory Paid Maternity Leave.
Agreed again.
+ Yet Another Three Words = MANDATORY PAID VACATION. It's utter stupidity that the U.S. has no mandated vacation, but we're the world's largest consumer of anti-depressants.
Yep, minimum of 15 days mandatory paid vacation for all workers, private or public, would be my point.
+ Serious work will begin on universal college education also. The debt-for-diploma bullshittery HAS to stop.
Yep, there should be at least a system of state-run universities like in California or New York across the country. Better education makes for better opportunities for people.
+ Cheney/Rove/Rice/Ashcroft = subpoena'd. Cheney gives any of this "who do you think YOU'RE talking to" guff, the ICU's getting pulled on that fuck. Call it severance pay for ruining the country.
They don't answer, they are in contempt, which is a crime. They don't answer those subpoenas, they go to jail, period, end of discussion. As much as seeing Cheney leave this Earth would be satisfying on a number of levels, I won't sink to that level.
+ "Free Trade" agreements = as good as DEAD, or at the very least, repealed until something better and non-zero-sum can be built.
I'd junk those with places like Mexico, yes. With Canada, Western Europe, Australia et al - keep them. With China, everything coming into the country gets a 75% tariff. Enact a law that allows us to replicate a nation's trade laws if we wish to, which will get most of the potentially troublesome countries to shut up.
+ Lobbyists, especially war, pharm, tobacco and finance lobbyists = BANISHED.
Lobbyists shouldn't be there, period. I would set up a federal campaign finance system, and cap donations at $250 to any one campaign from one person or company, and donors must be of legal age to donate, so we don't get some wiseass trying to skirt the rules that way. Lobbyists are subject to the same rules, and no company or firm can donate any more than $500 to a campaign.
+ Guaranteed minimum income. Maximum wage.
Maximum Wage? That's a potential problem for those who do well without screwing someone else over, is it not? I don't know how you'd guarantee a minimum income, and IMO if you were gonna do that, it should be low enough that people don't sit around collecting checks instead of getting a job.
+ >$500,000/yr = 45% TMTR, $500,000/yr - 250,000/yr = 40% TMTR, 249k - 125k = 36% TMTR. 124k - 85k = 30%TMTR (that's right . .. LOWER). 84k - 50k = 25%. 49k - 25k = 15%. <24k - 10%. Time to institute some progressive taxation for once.
45%? I'd set it at 62%, with that number going up to 80% for those in the financial services industry. I'd also have a big going-through of the tax code to remove as many loopholes as possible, and prosecute vigorously tax cheats, focusing on bigger cheats (aka firms using tax havens and the like).
+ 0.05 cent tax on all trade transactions.
Agreed again.
+ Tax credits for energy saving.
Again, can't argue at all.
+ Excess money coming in - New WPA! Infrastructure, bridges, roads, airports, transporation updates, education, schools, alternative energy building, small business funding, etc.
I'd go this route too, though I'd also try to reduce the debt if possible. Again, reducing a debt we leave to our children should be important, if you ask me. As far as the new WPA goes, I'd focus first on transportation and energy. Build a major nuclear waste reprocessing center at Hanford in Washington (already a mess, no need to make a new one) and substantially expand nuclear power in America, as well as renewables. True High-speed rail systems (as in 200+ mph) would be built where appropriate, run by Amtrak and the states as is done in California. I'd also set up a real industrial and research and development policy for the country, and give it a substantial budget to co-ordinate R&D efforts between government and private interests as well as universities and laboratories.
+ Wall Street will no longer hold the White House or the American people hostage. BANK on it. The next to be investigated and watched heavily will be the SEC. Bernie Maddoff and the Collapse-o-rama didn't just HAPPEN.
I'd go further than that, setting up an orderly phase-out of the derivatives market (which is just gambling with other people's money) and make the executives of these companies liable if they screw up. No executive should get away while investors go broke, period. The SEC will have all who have at one time worked for industry removed ASAP, and those who leave the SEC cannot work for a private investment or banking firm for 36 months after leaving the SEC, and the same is true for guys coming to the SEC from private firms. Reinstate Glass-Steagall and forcibly break up the biggest banks into smaller ones, and set up a government-run program to get loans to small banks and business at rock-bottom rates.
+ White supremacist groups = investigated.
Shouldn't even be an idea. I'd add in some so-called religious groups which stoke hate, too.
+ Drugs/prostitution = legalized, regulated, taxed.
Prostitution I would agree with, though I don't think legalizing it would entirely stop the street trade.
As for drugs, marijuana I would agree with legalizing. Nothing else. I have seen what crack cocaine and crystal meth does to people, I do NOT want to see that legalized. I would substantially the change the way it is deal with, however. Possession in small amounts doesn't get you sent to jail or get you a criminal record, it instead gets you entry into a residential treatment program. Second offense does as well. Third offense gets you a couple months in a residential facility, working for the government in menial duties as well as the treatment program. Only the fourth or more offenses gets jail. The first three offenses get no criminal record, either.
Pushers, however, should be treated harshly. I agree on killing the War on Drugs, but stopping smugglers should continue. Those people prey on others, and often do more than just run drugs. Those who smuggle other things should be treated harshly, too, especially human smugglers - the single lowest form of humanity possible.
+ DOMA & DADT = GONE.
+ Marriage is for ALL consenting adults of legal age.
The fact that these problems exist is insulting to those who are gay, and should be tossed pronto. This country was built on separation of church and state. If a church does not want to perform a same sex marriage, they don't have to. But many we will, and we all know it.
+ More installation art, Legos, music, retro video game museums, spontaneous acts of kindness, travel, sex and robot labs.
Not sure what to say about this one, other than the fact that all of them are good for the soul. Well, maybe not the robot labs, but you get the idea. :)
+ I'll of course be paraded around in a bulletproof tank-like HughMobile and refuse to fly, because when you piss off corporations and the wealthy that run them, they tend to get itchy trigger fingers and have plants do a little something-something to certain planes.
I'm not that paranoid. I'd simply fly commercial planes while campaigning, take the train where possible (I am having visions of a Teddy Roosevelt-style whistle stop tour of some parts of America) and do things in a more friendly way. I don't see a need to charter an airliner, honestly.
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