What is your Most important issue

[ThomWV]

I'm going to post similar questons twice, once for your least important and once for your least important issue. I will try to be broad and inclusive as possible and put the issues in no particular order.

I am hoping to get a glimpse of the seeming importance of the major issues on this board.

This one's for the Most Important:

[vadawg]

1. economy, everything else pales in comparison

[SteppingRazor]

2. With apologies to vadawg -- environment. Everything else pales in comparison.

That whole survival of the human race thing makes this a priority for me.

[Dulcinea]

3. Toss-up between education & health care. eom

[T Wolf]

4. I said the economy - not really fixing/creating jobs but restructuring our capitalist

system into something more humane.

[OhioChick]

5. Agreed. n/t

[reggie the dog]

6. you forgot the "all of the above" choice

[ThomWV]

7. That's the one answer that tells you absolutly nothing.

[reggie the dog]

8. It tells you that all the issues are of importance

and that many of us conisder them to be intertwined and of equal importance.

[Renew Deal]

12. They can't all be the "most important"

[reggie the dog]

18. i know that it is true that only one thing can be the most important

I just think that they are all very important. How can I choose between the economy, the environment, civil rights ect??????

[readmoreoften]

40. Wrong. That's the answer that tells you everything. The choices are such a joke I can't vote.

These issues are not at war with one another. They all have a root cause--an anti-egalitarian class society based on sucking the wealth from workers and natural resources.

[ThomWV]

44. It tells me everything I need to know about you.

[WeDidIt]

9. Economy

Then healthcare

[ThomWV]

10. I find it amazing that the counterpart to this poll has been blocked

And yet what is essentially the same question asked this way is fine.

[WI_DEM]

13. You should change "homosexual rights" to civil rights.

[QC]

32. That's not inflammatory enough. n/t

[superduperfarleft]

16. Too embarrassing? n/t

[reggie the dog]

20. probably not

people campaigned for civil rights, not black rights in the past as they are doing today. What was once the gay rights movement is being seen more and more as the CIVIL rights movement it has always been.

[votingupstart]

11. hard to chose just one - but good poll nt

[Mari333]

14. end the occupation of 2 countries and the economy will be fixed nt

[William769]

15. Once again

IT'S NOT HOMOSEXUAL RIGHTS, IT'S CIVIL RIGHTS!

[Mari333]

17. amen to that nt

[ThomWV]

19. I didn't say "homosexual rights"

See that apostrophe I put in there? It makes the word possessive, meaning that I was referring to the rights particular to the situation of a 'gay' person. However to insure that I did not in some way distinguish between a male or female I chose to use the word homosexual to make the subject of the question. Sorry if it was confusing, I did not mean it to be and I did not intend to imply anything other than that there were issues applicable to the gay community that did not effect the remainder of the community - such as the right to marry as an example of one not denied others despite race, religion, or other externalities.

Sorry.

[abq e streeter]

21. I am so far the only one who said media--here's my reasoning...

without accurate information, i.e. the TRUTH being widely disseminated, the ability of the people to take effective action on every one of the other issues is greatly diminished.

[ProgressiveFool]

26. I agree the media as it is is a cesspool

But for one thing, I don't see what the government can really do to step in and change that, and for another, I think blogs, the internet and alternative media are already destroying what power the establishment media still have, hollowing it out from the inside. At the moment the facade is still shiny and impressive, but the collapse is imminent.

[abq e streeter]

33. Hope you're right about "imminent collapse'; there's still only a small minority of people

who do the digging still required to find out everything that's really going on....hell, half the people still believe in creationism, can't name a supreme court justice or find Mexico on a map... ( no link, I took a wild stab at those figures but probably not far off).

[ProgressiveFool]

37. well, "imminent" was perhaps too optimistic a word

But many younger and educated people already view the establishment media cynically, so it's on its way.

[B Calm]

22. According to the news it's David Letterman's joke. Seeing how

I'm out of a job and laid off, I vote for the economy.

[Mimosa]

23. Job creation needs to be done or the country will fall apart...

Job Creation needs to be done or the country will fall apart...

but the poll asked for my most important concern. That's health care for all. People's ilnesses go untreated and they die when they can't afford preventative care.

[Maru Kitteh]

24. HEALTHCARE.

[ProgressiveFool]

25. I realize it won't create jobs or save the economy, but the constitutional issues are #1 for me

Real restoration of the Rule of Law, accountability, transparency of government, protection of the rights and dignity of the individual, checks and balances, etc. For me those form the basis of a just society, and without a just society, we will always be split into winners and losers, predators and prey.

And so far, I'm not very happy with how things are going on that front. Obama is continuing way too many of the Bush policies, changing some of the packaging, but leaving the contents pretty much intact.

[timeforpeace]

27. We wanted to impeach Bush because of the wars.

The wars haven't changed. I hope we haven't either. End the wars now.

[WI_DEM]

28. all of these issues are important, but for me, personally, health care is the priority.

[Fire1]

29. Economy and job creation, hands down.

[G_j]

30. if you think the Military Industrial Complex is draining us dry..

(as I do) then it would have to be a combination of answers.

[LostInAnomie]

31. Health care

Really health care should be lumped in with the economy and job creation. I can't tell you how many older people I know that continue to work only because of health insurance. These are people of retirement age, but keep working until they can get on medicare at 65. If we could remove them from the work force by simply giving them health coverage it would go a long way towards helping young people out of college find jobs.

[Vinca]

34. Health care.

I'm really, really worried that if something I can afford isn't passed, I might lose my mobility. Unless I strike oil in the backyard I'll never be able to put cash on the barrelhead for a hip replacement and I've got 5 years to wait for Medicare.

[LaPera]

35. Not even close...Universal Health Care without health NOTHING else means shit! We need

a public option to stop the thieving lying insurance companies & the republican corporate privatizing rich!

The insurance companies will eat up all our taxes and wages if we let this continue...

NOTHING is more important until we have a public Health Care plan in place...employment will happen as well and small businesses will prosper and not be burden with employee health care cost!!

[Iggo]

36. Civil Rights.

[ColbertWatcher]

38. Education. Because with education everything else follows. n/t

[HughMoran]

39. Without our health, we have nothing

There is no question as to what's more important.

The economy is a short-term issue. Punishing Bushco won't improve my life, good health care will.

[readmoreoften]

41. Every issue listed has the same damn root cause. How about attack the ROOT CAUSE.

Every one of these issues has the same root cause: we live in an illogical, anti-egalitarian class-divided society that survives by sucking the created energy from working people and the natural resource of the earth.

You can't fight these issues piecemeal. They all have one cause. The fact that "homosexual's rights" is even an issue stems from the origin of family structure, which was developed around 6000 years ago to pass the property of the owning classes through blood lines after hoarding began.

All of these issues can only be fought together. There are not "hundreds of problems" there are only two: (1) who is going to take power from the plutocracy and (2) what do we do build an equitable, survivable world beyond that so we can make it to 2100 AD.

[ZombieHorde]

42. Civil rights, which are on you list twice (abortion and gay marriage), then education comes a

close second. Good list, good poll.

[Number23]

43. My top priority is foreign policy. But because I recognize that many of my countrymen are suffering

I voted economic issues.

You have alot of good choices.

[LWolf]

45. I don't have a "most important." I have many important issues.

I'm not going to diminish the importance of any of them by declaring one "more important" than the rest.

Health Care; Peace; Education; Civil Liberties; the economy; re-regulation; de-corporatization; election reform; a modern fairness doctrine;

Those are good to begin with.

[timtom]

46. Without the curtailing of the Military-Industrial Complex

nothing will happen with the economy and job stimulus!

[ThomWV]

47. Wouldn't that have a large price in lost jobs?

Not that I disagree with you but wouldn't there be large job loss associated with curtailing the MI complex? I'm thinking about the aircraft, ship, and particularly the electronics manufacturers.

[timtom]

48. I keep thinking about the redistribution of the obscene trillions

on "defense" spending and how an intelligent and wise administration could do something similar to FDR's programs which began the road to recovery (at least, that is my limited understanding).

Rebuilding the American infrastructure, in other words. Education. Health care. New technology.

I realize I'm living in a fool's paradise, but a guy can dream, can't he?

[lpbk2713]

49. "It's the economy, stupid."

Well ... what's left of it anyway. :shrug: