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writer 9 months ago
This sounds like a big proposal with too many points rolled into it. But I think it works. It's getting a good response and the points are relative to each other. It's not like it would be considered as all or nothing anyway. But with a lot of votes it might make a splash. I think a lot of people agree with most of these points.
writer 9 months ago
This is too general. We need specifics. How will we do this?
writer 9 months ago
Students should be bailed out, just like the banks have been.
writer 9 months ago
War is not the answer. We don't drop bombs on sections of New York or chicago to kill the urban terrorists. why do we need to do that in other countries. It is a racist genocide.

War is for corporate profiteers, not for protecting our freedom. This is proven over and over wirth every day. It is time to end all war. It is time to stop the illegal preemptive racst genocidal wars that we continue to wage in vain. Our troops fight and die in vain for corporate greed. Those who support wars are vain.

http://stopwar.lafilmonline.com
writer 9 months ago
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYov5o5_2s

Dick Cheney says that torturing detainees has saved American lives. That claim is patently false. Cheney's torture policy was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of American servicemen and women.

Matthew Alexander was the senior military interrogator for the task force that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and, at the time, a higher priority target than Osama bin Laden. Mr. Alexander has personally conducted hundreds of interrogations and supervised over a thousand of them.

"Torture does not save lives. Torture costs us lives," Mr. Alexander said in an exclusive interview at Brave New Studios. "And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool...These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse....literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives."
writer 9 months ago
This is a racist proposal.
writer 9 months ago
Lets get with the program. We have technology. Why are we using 17th century voting processes? bank websites. For examle, have secure processes for managing money online. Voting can be done the same way and can be ensured to be fair without the possibilty for human corruption. If it can work with our money, it can work with our votes.
writer 9 months ago
Oust KBR from government contracts now. Why is this lawless company still operating?
writer 9 months ago
It should not be required. But incentives like college tuition would be fair and would probably support it.
writer 9 months ago
If we need to censor something then lets start with irrelevant lying former Vice Presidents.
writer 9 months ago
Let's start by disallowing contractors whose work kills Americans to be renewed, e.g. KBR.
writer 9 months ago
The bigger question is, why are we still fighting wars based on 9-11? We are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan while the 9-11 terrorists were Al Qeada and are in Pakistan. We have no understanding or plan for the Afghanistan war. It is another Vietnam.

This ongoing 9-11 excuse for illegal preemptive racist genocidal war is a load of crap.

http://stopwar.lafilmonline.com
writer 9 months ago
As in war, for example.
writer 9 months ago
The energy section is criminallu monopolistic as we saw with Enron and the failed iniatives to make it competitive. We need strong regulations and oversight.
writer 9 months ago
This needs more fleshing out. How can this work? What is suggested specifically?
writer 9 months ago
Stop illegal preemptive racist genocidal wars. These wars are wrong. They do not protect Americans' freedom. They endanger our freedoms. Veterans like Matthew Alexander, the senior military interrogator for the task force that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi testified to these facts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYov5o5_2s).

Veterans continually protest that these wars are for profiteering corporations. They don't know what they were figjhting for. Afghnaistan is another Vietnam as Andrew bacevich has tesified to Congress.

See the facts: http://stopwar.lafilmonline.com
writer 9 months ago
Greta idea. The parties serve to promote scandal and back stabbing. Congress is like a freakin school yard. Let's grow up.
writer 9 months ago
They are also often broken at critical times, like when there is a pending vote on somthing like the TARP. Congress doesn't want to hear what people really want. The system needs to be made reliable, and updated with current technology. It's needs to have a backup system to take over when something fails. Everybody else on the web can do this. Why not you?
writer 9 months ago
Criminalization of marijuana overcrowds the jails and justice system. Meanwhile we won't "look back", forward, or any other direction, at the real criminals in America, the banks, bankers, and war profiteers who infest government to make sure they get theirs while the American people suffer through this despression.
writer 9 months ago
Stop spending money on racist preemtive genocidal wars. We need education not war. http://stopwar.lafilmonline.com