Reply #112: A progressive plan

[Fovea]

1. A platform with the following items actually getting a fair discussion.

a. repeal of the Bush** taxcuts, and a real progressive tax including capital gains.

b. universal healthcare for all Americans.

c. universal education to the baccalaureate, or vocational certification level.

d. repeal of nafta, cafta, and the creation of legislation removing the economic benefit from offshoring.

e. a full on energy/transportation/reindustrialization policy financed by nationalizing oil, natural gas, and coal.

f. a reduction of military forces, and a redeployment of a smaller, more responsive force designed to respond to threats, not occupy nations.

g. re populate and revitalize government agencies to the level where they are no longer 'Groverized.'

h. join Kyoto, International Criminal Court, re-commit to the U.N.


2. a mid-term Dem convention to refine state race strategies and prepare for the next cycle is a must.

3. Stop the ethics committee circle jerk and start kicking people out of govt who are corrupt.

4. publicly funded elections, with a top to bottom reform of practices and applicable laws on voter elegibility and districting.


There, that's a start.