What is the most pressing political issue for you at this moment? nt

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[Skittles]

1. offshoring / jobs

[Kennah]

2. Jobs

[DJ13]

3. Not just jobs, but stagnant wages coupled with inflation for those with jobs

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Getting Obama to turn left, plus jobs...nt

[Deep13]

5. healthcare nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. total obstructionism by the right wing, trying to drag the US backwards to....who knows?

Utter insanity.

[Poll_Blind]

7. Jobs followed very closely by healthcare.nt

PB

[Kceres]

8. Getting very worried about reproductive rights! Again. Sigh. nt

[Lasher]

9. Money in politics.

Most other problems are symptoms of this.

[Goldstein1984]

10. The Plutocracy

All of the other problems will be solved when government is no longer for sale the the highest bidder.

[Warpy]

11. Government by corporate plutocracy

We need a revolution to overthrow this. Let's just hope it can be a peaceful revolution. Violent ones rarely work as advertised.

[yurbud]

12. prying the cold, dead hand of Wall Street off of our government and the world before

they reduce us all to living in cardboard boxes and sifting through their shit for undigested bits of food to survive.

[sabrina 1]

13. Getting Corporate Money and their Paid Candidates out of

Congress. Until that happens, nothing else worthwhile is possible.

[Kaleko]

26. That's removing the root cause of corruption.

So here's a "me too".

[sabrina 1]

30. Yes, everything else stems from that. The Wars, the privatizations

of our HC and now Education system eg. We spend so much wasted time trying to fix THOSE issues, when there is no hope of doing so, so long as they own Congress. The issues are like the fruit or branches of a poisoned tree, and we have failed to deal with the real problem, which is the 'root'.

I hope, now that the conversation has begun about the money in our Government, an issue will be made of the funding these candidates get. Lists of the candidates with their funding next to their photos, should be made available to every voter if possible. Most people do not know this. Make Corporate Funding political poison in the next election and that will make it possible for decent people to run against the Wall Street Candidates for the first time.

Then, when that mission is accomplished, we can start talking about legislation, like restoring Glass Steagal and getting REAL Campaign Finance Reform and a REAL National HC system. But until the Wall Street Candidates are removed, none of that can happen and we have to be able to overcome the money in order to get good people elected. I think for the first time, it is possible.

[stlsaxman]

34. Establishing Federally Funded Elections.

[sabrina 1]

35. Exactly. But until we get rid of the Wall Street Congress, that

won't happen. So first, we have to make that a huge issue in the next election. Anyone accepting funds from Wall Street should be challenged by candidates who make it clear that unlike their opponents, they will not be working for Wall Street and will not be taking Wall Street money.

The climate is right now. Make it a campaign issue for all of them. They boast about how much money they have right now. But watch them try to hide it once the people find out who they are really working for.

[Cali_Democrat]

14. Defense spending

and the wars that come with it.

[woo me with science]

15. Slashing of SS, Medicare, and Medicaid to preserve the military industrial complex.

The Super Congress is reportedly coming to a "consensus."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2164954

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/10/pentagon-looking-safe-super-committees-cuts/43974

[pacalo]

16. My choices, too.

[FredStembottom]

17. Off-shoring of jobs and election transparency.

n/t

[MrSlayer]

18. Unemployment.

We can't begin to fix our other problems until we get people back to work.

[saras]

19. Corporate rule. Jobs, the environment, schools, incipient fascism - all products of corporate rule.

[slay]

24. +1 - there are so many you really can't pick just one

these are serious problems that need addressing - and you're right - they all do relate to relentless corporate rule.

[Kurmudgeon]

20. Keeping the GOP out of power so they can't kill again.

[the other one]

21. end the drug war

[slay]

25. Agreed

it would create jobs and end many forms of crime.

[opihimoimoi]

22. THEM GOPers GATTA GO....VOTE BLUE

[slay]

23. Jobs - preferably through legalizing marijuana - kill two - or three or four - birds w/one stone

would create jobs - especially if well regulated to stop huge corporations from getting involved - small businesses only - from growers to sales, harvesters, trimmers - many jobs to be had. the tax money could be used to create some ACTUAL GOVERNMENT JOBS that are needed like social workers and more teachers. It's a win win win win win for everyone. Oh and it puts weed dealing gangs out of business - as well the mexican cartels. It's insane that we are not demanding it be legal, regulated, and taxed.

[RainDog]

27. economy/jobs/financial reform - they all go together

and the Tobin tax on trades should happen asap and if both sides do not support these, they are too corrupt to remain in office.

1000 economists have recommended the tax on trades.

Get a new economic team - not one that opposes the above economists. Get Goldman-Sacs out of the administration.

the assault on women's rights is horrific, btw. getting these neolithic thinkers, whether male or female, out of office is a top priority. I don't care which side of the aisle they're on. We need people to run against any anti-choice dems in primaries. Get rid of them.

[reggie the dog]

28. delocalization/free trade

[B Calm]

29. Traitorous companies off-shoring US manufacturing jobs

[Cid_B]

31. Reduction of military benefits to support other bloated systems...

I have to support someone who worked in the interests of the nation and put their ass on the line over a crackhead who never had a job...

[AsahinaKimi]

32. I don't know where to begin..

Truly I don't...We need to fix it all..

[KG]

33. ending the two-party political system. all the other political issues stem from that...

[Scuba]

36. Jobs/healthcare or healthcare/jobs.

[Prism]

37. The internalization of neoconservative philosophy by Democrats

I really will never ever understand why the hell I'm supposed to be cheering a Democratic President for doing what the Republican would have done.

It's bizarre to say the least.

[Odin2005]

38. Jobs!

[justiceischeap]

39. Supreme Court

If a Repub gets elected in 2012 and gets to make appointments to the USSC, we're screwed as a nation. It doesn't matter if we suddenly have an influx of jobs in this country and the economy turns around on a dime. We'll lose so many personal freedoms from a heavily conservative court, we'd no longer recognize this nation. The court is fairly balanced now and look how their decisions are effecting us.

[LWolf]

40. They are all connected.

Perhaps, at the core, it would be disinfecting our corrupted government and taking a sharp left turn.