Goals and Actions
Financial Reforms
- Restore our democracy to a government for the people by the people instead of a government for the few at the expense of the many.
- Enforce banking and corporate regulation so that the economic health of the country is restored and future corruption is avoided.
- Remove the influence of money from the political decision making process
- Demand that America’s wealth be reinvested in America
- Create an environment that enhances the economic health of the middle class
Specific Actions
- Reinstate Glass Steagall
- Audit the FED
- Overhaul the tax code that favors the wealthy
- Expunge the Bush Era Tax Cuts
- Amend the Constitution to publicly finance elections, reverse 085-205 and reform the influence of lobbyists
- Review all regulations of the financial system by a non partisan committee
- Stimulate job growth through initiatives that demand that offshore money be reinvested in the US and stem the flow of outsourcing
Political Reform
- Make common Americans a legislative priority
- Make decisions based on sustainability
- Inform the electorate accurately so that we may have meaningful elections
- Alter the political party process for greater choice in candidates
- Deal with our national debt in a competent and compassionate way
- Make education and healthcare a right not a privilege
Specific Actions
- Advocate for the laws and policies that apply to us to also apply to Members of Congress.
- Advocate for developing and implementing sustainable and renewable energy sources
- Make common Americans a legislative priority
- Make decisions based on sustainability
- Inform the electorate accurately so that we may have meaningful elections – proportional balloting
- Alter the political party process for greater choice in candidates
- Deal with our national debt in a competent and compassionate way
- Make education and healthcare a right not a privilege
- Analyze subsidies with regard to their effectiveness for the 99% by a nonpartisan committee
- Support common and public Airways
- Keep the Internet free and open
- Provide assistance to people who are losing their houses
- Dismantle public financing for the war industry
- Allow election information to only be aired by media donated time on public venues
- Change education reform efforts to be less harmful to public educational institutions
- Revisit health care reform so that it addresses costs and is universal
- Form a third party or reform the primary process???
- Make the ratio of elected politicians more proportionate to the population
Social Reforms
- Recognize that the divisive and contentious nature of national politics is not working for our country
- Restore compassion, tolerance and charity
- Remind America to resist mindless consumerism of foreign products
- Respect the environment and the scientists who study it
- Be part of the solution
- Have the attitude that we’re all in this together.
- Leave the Country better than we found it
Specific Actions
- Act Peacefully
- Treat everyone as a potential ally.
- Buy locally/American
- Move money from big banks to credit unions
- Keep a cordial dialogue
- Look out for your neighbors
- Make informed decisions about our earth and its resources
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