Constructive gadfly
Campaign Agenda
Published on February 29, 2004 By stevendedalus In Politics

Some crucial items on the political campaign agenda should cover:


1) A voluntary civilian defense corps made up of primarily school drop-outs, and high school students not college-bound and senior citizens for nominal stipend; this corps would be organized and supervised by local enforcement agencies and paid for by Homeland Security.


2) Incentives should target the national guard to recruit more for the express purpose of border patrol.


3) Appropriations should be increased for the navy and coastguard to intensify sentinel of ports of entry.


4) More funds for children’s daycare centers and selected welfare mothers trained to supervise in them.


5) Immediate free and total health care, including at home, for patients who have been victimized by malpractice adjudicated by a panel of legal, medical, and consumer experts. Clear and egregious offenders, physicians and hospitals, shall be suspended from practice, pending corrective investigation and measures. If death is a result of malpractice, survivors are entitled to compensation similar to the families of the 9/11 tragedy. Malpractice lawsuits shall be terminated; malpractice insurance shall end and a percentage of savings passed on to the malpractice fund.


6) The prescription drug law for seniors should be repealed and replaced by a governmental agency to purchase prescriptions by bulk and the savings passed on to seniors requiring long term medicine under Medicare.


7) Price-controls must be enacted on the entire medical industry, including insurance premiums for a period of three years until sanity is returned. Price controls also on tuition of all universities.


8) Changes to the current tax structure incrementally by increasing the marginal rate each year for nine years at 1% for those with income of 500K and more; and ½ % for income of 200K and ¾ % for 300- 499K.


9) Each state will be urged to pass a constitutional amendment or to protect the traditional status of marriage and to extend total equal “marriage rights” in a provision for civil unions and divorce of gays but not common law relationships.


10)In lieu of privatizing part of social security, taxpayers have the option to participate in social security plus, in which the government will contribute to a special individual account one dollar for every four invested by the individual.


11)Details of how the transition of health insurance will be implemented toward the federal employees insurance.


12)Details on a time table for withdrawal from Iraq.


13)Details on what still has to be done in Afghanistan,


14)Proposal for a prestigious figure, such as Carter or the first Bush, as ambassador to the UN to emphasize a new aggressive diplomacy world-wide.


15)Stiff penalties on businesses that out source and awards for corporations that don’t.


    


Comments
on Feb 29, 2004
Shift from corporate welfare to taxation based on pollution output.
on Mar 01, 2004
Great point, Gates!