Forum Post: How To Take America Back From The Top 1% That Own It.
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 27, 2011, 9:26 a.m. EST by fwankie123
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Elect Elizabeth Warren as President
Enact the Fair Elections Now Act
Require new FCC regulations granting free air time to all federal candidates for elected office.
End the "revolving door" of politicians ever becoming becoming lobbyists and prohibit all federal public employees, officers, officials from ever being employed by any corporation, individual or business that they specifically regulated while in office.
New WPA and CCC to create millions of jobs rebuilding America.
Create a fair and progressive tax code. Eliminate loopholes, unfair tax breaks, exemptions and deductions, subsidies and end all tax havens.
Break up the biggest banks. Immediate reenactment of the Glass-Steagall Act. Tax financial transactions at one percent.
End the wars. Reduce the military budget by half.
Medicare For All.
http://algoxy.com/ows/strategyofamerica.html and Article 5 convention is what saves america now all these changes can come in after one is held
Here we go.
Haha, seriously though, remember the core of the 99% is really much less then 1%. And to get to that magic 99 number, we have to include the Tea Party (yes, I hate them too) and they're not big fans of TARP.
For all I love the idea, that act makes it too easy to become a serious candidate. The standards are not that much higher then the 2003 CA gubernatorial recall, and we all remember how that went.
Now you are infringing on the media's right to free speech. Also, what good is it if your candidate is stuck on channel 2345 or some other random station no one watches?
Good idea, but remember that for many young politicians the hope of being able to cash out later helps them put up with minimal pay during their early years.
I've already worked for two conservation corps, I'd bet there's one within 45 minutes of where you live right now. Also, I'm not sure if you've heard, but as a nation, we're kind of broke right now.
Lets, not get rid of all loopholes, lets just make them for better things such as education, development, and charity of time.
While that would be fun for all of us, it would make the US financial industry noncompetitive with the rest of the world. Like it or not we do finance well here in the US and it's real unlikely we're going to move to a manufacturing/organic farming economy any time soon. What we need to do is find a way for these financial firm to work for us.
Yay, but then again, I'd kind of feel bad if Afghanistan collapsed into a civil war. I'd feel that we were kind of responsible.
I agree, lets hope the Supreme Court doesn't destroy that for all of us.
Free pizza for everyone (again).