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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:22
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Vote for Ted!!!!
Especially #15
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Tingkai
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To find the Northwest Passage
Aug 2001
time: 13:22
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And to Ted's points, I would add:
- Add to the Constitution that the founding principles of the US are among the greatest in the world, therefore the US foreign policy should be based on the concept of leading by example.
- Add to the Constitution that the U.S. foreign policy must meet the standard set out by the constitution (e.g right to a fair trial, no cruel and unusual punishment, etc.)
- Eliminate the rich's person club called the Senate which serves no purpose (second sober thought, yeah right) and gives too much powers to states with small populations.
- The president should be elected by a straight forward, majority of votes.
- All government organizations should have a founding principle that their goal is to create sustainable economic growth and that free markets are not a goal, but merely a means of achieving the goal of reducing poverty and achieving sustainable growth.
- All legislative bills must be confined to a specific topic so that if a bill is about funding a war in Iraq, it cannot include legislation about ID cards, funding for chicken farms, etc.
- Create a judicial committee of 10 judges with experience who will be in charge of picking federal judges with the committee members appointed by the president, approved by the Senate. This way there will be political fights on only the 10 committee members rather than dozens of judges as happens under the current system.
- Add a gradually increasing tax on gasoline with all revenues going to subsidy tax breaks for fuel efficient cars (eg cars that get less than 45 mpg)
- Tax all vehicles that get less than 20 mpg
- All electoral districts must be based on simple straight lines with a maximum of eight lines per border.
- Eliminate all subsidies to businesses.
- Eliminate all tarriffs and other trade barriers. The U.S. economy has the greatest potential strength in the world, there is no need to protect any American industry,
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Odin
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Biology Nerd at Minnesota State University Moorhead
Sep 2000
time: 23:22
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1. Make the Senate based on proprtional representation with elections occuring every 4 years.
2. Have runoff elections
3. Abolish the Electoral College
4. Make the beauacracy and cabinet subservient to Congress via a Prime Minister, who is also the majority leader of the Senate. The President, however, retains the rest of his powers, such as the veto, nominating judges, being Comander-in-chief and chief diplomat, etc.
5. Federal Judges, including Supreme Court justices, can serve a maximum of 15 years, or to the age of 75, whatever is shorter.
6. Tax incentives and subsidies for starting businesses as co-ops instead of corporations beholden to shareholders People working for co-ops get a tax deduction.
7. Elimination of subsidies to agribusinesses
8. Eliminate the tax deductions that are used as pork for special intrests, keep only the ones that serve a useful purpose.
9. All budgets must be balanced if the country is not is a war, recession, or depression, or is in the process of implementing a major, expensive program (is this a practical way to prevent pork?)
10.Increase the Intellegence budget. Use the CIA to encourage liberation movements in various countries instead of invading them.
11. Cut the Defense budget; invest in a smaller, but more highly trained millitary better designed for urban conflicts and peacekeeping.
12. Implement a nationalized healthcare system
13. Pay for at least 70% of the tuition of all college students, 100% for students from poor families.
14. Increase federal grant money to state education systems. Repeal No Child Left Behind, instead we should encourage teachers and principals to create the curiculum, not politicians. Increase investment in science teaching massively to counteract Creationists and other anti-intelectuals. Have teacher's pay based on merit, not seniority, also have them paid better, better pay brings in better people.
15. Fund Stem Cell Research
16. increase NASA's budget to 5 times current level. Start Mars program.
17. raise Taxes on rich (small businesses exempted, so the consrvatives can't BS about that).
18. Increase the minimum wage to $9.00 to large businesses, $7.50 for small businesses, and $6.00 for people under 18
19. enact stricter regulations on businesses.
20. bring back capital gains taxes.
21. Have stricter enviromental regulations.
22. encourage clean energy and fund a program to harness nuclear fusion for energy.
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Vesayen
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Don't you love it when we ruin peoples lives for no good reason?
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Vesayen
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Nuking is a waste.... test biological weapons there instead?
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