Our demands - can we compile a full list?

[noamnety]

(in no particular order)

1. End don't ask - don't tell
2. Stop corn subsidies (high fructose corn syrup subsidies)
3. Withdraw all troops from Iraq (no weasel wording on what is or isn't a combat troop)
4. Prosecute those responsible for war crimes

edit:

5. Employee Free Choice Act
6. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, which restricts union activities
7. Health care reform (including portability)
8. Outlawing GMO foods (and patented seeds)
9. Repeal No Child Left Behind
10. abort the drug war
11. bust big oil (nationalize?)
12. legalize/decriminalize pot
13. prosecute war profiteers
14. world initiative to end global warming
15. alternative energy (and we need some conservation laws)
16. trains/public transit funding
17. infrastructure funding
18. outlaw offshore tax havens
19. FDR style progressivism, including taxes.
20. end corporate person-hood
21. nationalize the banks
22. cut defense spending
23. REGULATE all businesses in a position to create horrific economic bubbles and ponzi schemes.
24. legalize gay marriage (nationally)
25. ban all but cloth shopping bags
26. end all usury
27. Pass the Freedom of Choice Act
28. Pass the ERA
29. Include birth control as mandatory coverage in all insurance/health care plans
30. Require all hospitals to carry and dispense upon request RU486 to rape victims
31. Ensure that women in the military have access to the same reproductive health care options that civilian women in the states have.

[billyoc]

1. EFCA and the repeal of Taft-Hartley.

[noamnety]

6. Great additions!

I'd love to see that.

[kentuck]

2. Healthcare reform including portability..

which will permit you to leave a job and take your insurance with you...

[Ohio Joe]

3. I'd kind of like a job

Yeah, lets throw that in there as well.

[rug]

4. Stop corn subsidies is sorta out of place.

[noamnety]

7. I don't think it's out of place.

I never thought about it much til I read the Omnivore's Dilemma (or part of it, I have to finish it this summer). I strongly recommend it - it explains a lot about the American diet, how government subsidies relate to ruining our soil and dependence on chemical fertilizers, and how it ties in with Monsanto. Which reminds me - outlawing GMO goes on my list, too.

[Mike 03]

5. Sorry, I think this a ridiculous, selfish, futile and pointless thread, because

we all have issues that mean a lot to us, and it's not possible for one man to please every one of us.

Chrissakes.

[noamnety]

8. It's an entire congress that represents us, not just one man.

I'm interested in feeling out how many issues there are that need addressing. Sometimes I think there are 3 or 4 major ones, and then when I start to think about every aspect of how our country is run, I start thinking it's the whole thing. Obviously the truth is somewhere in the middle, but I'm curious what a relatively full list would look like.

[vadawg]

9. i for one want pepsi to bring back the jazz line, and i think we should all get a free gallon of

milk a day.

[Mike 03]

10. LOL.

:hi:

[handmade34]

13. don't be a killjoy - come out and play!

[90-percent]

11. in complete agreement with above

additionally

abort the drug war

bust big oil

legalize/decriminalize pot

prosecute war profiteers

world initiative to end global warming

alternative energy

trains

infrastructure

offshore tax havens

FDR style progressivism, including taxes.

end corporate person-hood

nationalize the banks

bust the most vile parts of crony capitalism

cut defense spending in favor of futurist stuff that will make the future better for the world

list seems to grow bigger.....

REGULATE all businesses in a position to create horrific economic bubbles and ponzi schemes.

JOB ONE is WAR CRIMES, in my book.

-90% Jimmy

[noamnety]

15. wow, great list.

(I left off "bust the most vile parts of crony capitalism" for vagueness, but I do agree with it.)

[Mike 03]

12. I'm developing tingling and pain in my right wrist. I think that should be

erradicated.

[handmade34]

14. add...

legalize gay marriage
end criminalization of drug use
ban all but cloth shopping bags
end all usury
to be cont.

[noamnety]

16. YES!

Since you brought up recycling/reusing, wouldn't it be something if people had to pay a tax on disposable cups and Styrofoam at fast food places? I saw Chris Jordan's by-the-numbers piece on plastic bags used in the US, it made me ill.

[handmade34]

18. I hadn't heard of Chris Jordan

and did a quick search. Worth spending more time later. I make and sell/give away cloth shopping bags from recycled materials and am working hard to encourage all to use them. All it takes is changing a habit (bring shopping home, empty bags and put them by the door to take when you go out again...) Both plastic and paper shopping bags are expensive, wasteful and unnecessary

[Mr. Ected]

17. Pass the Freedom of Choice Act

When the abortion issue goes away, the Christian radicals will be neutered.

[noamnety]

19. Ah, I can't believe I forgot that.

I added the equal rights amendment, too - cannot believe we don't have that yet.

[handmade34]

20. add

require all new construction to have solar panels and/or other forms of alternative energy source and graywater reuse system
a paying job for every person
minimum wage that is a livable wage
extend free education through college

[noamnety]

21. I'm past the editing time but

34. require all new construction to have solar panels and/or other forms of alternative energy source and graywater reuse system (and geothermal furnaces where possible)
35. a paying job for every person, welfare for those who can't work
36. minimum wage that is a livable wage (and rises PER DOLLAR AMOUNT - not PERCENTAGE - as congress's own pay raises.)
37. extend free education through college

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I took the liberty of adding some extra thoughts there. It especially irks me when the minimum wage doesn't go up, but congress gets a raise, or when the rich get a 3% raise of a buncha money for a cost of living wage, and the poor get a 3% raise on almost nothing, and they call that fair. Government pay scales (GS-wages) are set up that way, so the gap between the poor and the rich is always increasing, as if food necessities only increase 10 dollars a month for poor people, but increase 40 dollars a month for the rich.