Forty or fifty years ago outsourcing began within the states when the South lured northern manufacturers with the lucrative promise of lower or no taxes and cheaper non-union labor. This initiative unquestionably brought modernization, prosperity and greater population to the southern states. Aside from the unions, there was little flack — after all, in a nation united, prosperity should be available to all states. Still the unions had a point in that it resulted in depressed wages, putting th...

27) Subsidize airplane manufacturers that build passenger crafts without cargo areas other than for passenger luggage with secondary detectors built-in, and in the manufacturing of new crafts strictly for commercial cargo. In the meantime, strict federal inspection of commercial cargo is required. 28) Float an EPA bond for a massive assault against pollution of all kinds and for the development of alternative fuels. 29) Release non-violent offenders from prison and place them i...

16) Raise the minimum wage rate one dollar each year for the next three years and legislate cost of living index thereafter. 17) Fund a public education overseas TV channel in foreign languages giving an objective account of democracy at work. 18) Develop a peace project for the western hemisphere stressing the need to replace dictatorships and oppression with democratic objectives. 19) Assist in more funding for UN peace-keeping and in developing an international enforceme...

23) A Marshall Plan should be initiated in pockets of poverty and unemployment here in the US, and infrastructure 20 year bonds issued in small denominations for common citizens to purchase. 24) NCLB should be scrapped and federal assistance to states increased for the purpose of restructuring curricula to meet the unique needs of each of the local districts that most require enterprising approaches. 25) Levy a luxury tax on automobiles that do not adhere to an average MPG of 25...

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. Elaborate 8: For twenty years the wealthy in the nation have experienced the most sustained windfall of huge tax give-away and “trickle down” nonsense not seen since the end of the Hoover era. It is time for these people to begin to pay back the billions pocketed to forge unh...

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. Elaborate 12: Unlike the Kucinich approach, the US cannot simply cut and run once the UN takes control of peace-keepi...

Lest I be accused of issuing dogma, I should like to elaborate on each of the thirty points put forth on my blogs related to Election issues: 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. School dropouts as rule are in a blind alley with literally few chance...

2) Incentives should target the national guard to recruit more for the express purpose of border patrol. Elaborate 2: This is a no-brainer. We cannot continue to police the world at the expense of our own borders. The new recruitment initiative for the national guard should be laced with an agreement that by signing up it will be only for tour of duty for the protection of US borders and these recruits will not be used for any other purpose. The effect of more boots on the borders...

Elaborate 5: 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, though less, similar to the families of the 9/11 tragedy. Malpractice lawsuits shall be t...

Some crucial items on the political campaign agenda should cover: 16) Raise the minimum wage rate one dollar each year for the next three years and legislate cost of living index thereafter. 17) Fund a public education overseas TV channel in foreign languages giving an objective account of democracy at work. 18) Develop a peace project for the western hemisphere stressing the need to replace dictatorships and oppression with democratic objectives. 19) Assist in mor...

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 increa...

Let me at the outset make it clear that Rosie O’Donnell and the mayor of San Fran are definitely not liberal; they are defiant radicals, coming neither from the left nor the right but simply dredged from dark illusions of the ego, and in the Shakespearean definition meaning gross or licentious. The term liberal as political, originated in 19 th Century England and ironically by Tory opponents and used as a pejorative — sound familiar? — that suggested “un-English.” Later the term foun...

  “Since 1932" [Hoover’s last year] “we have not had a president who has been more closely allied with business and more sympathetic to large and powerful corprporations.” says historian Alan Brinkley, specializing in the American Presidency. Edsall of the “Washington Post” highlights Bush’s immigration proposal as enlarging the pool of workers to perform the “dirtiest and most dangerous tasks for low pay.” This initiative, not surprisingly is backed by what is called The Essential W...

While all of us blog on crudely, quaintly, coldly concerning affairs of state and culture, Uganda’s northern section continues since ‘88 to engage in rebellion and to prey on village children near the city of Gulu, according to Emily Wax of the Washington Post Foreign News Service. While we quibble over taxes, welfare and a presidential election, parents in villages have to line up their children at dusk and send them off to Gulu, heavily fortified, to spend the night in relatively saf...

During these primaries the exchange has been more about the economy than the war. The bleak picture the Democratic candidates paint is echoed by many of the Democratic faithful who feel for those affected by job loss and outsourcing. To the Republican faithful, however, this scenario flies in the face of a stock market rebounding that is attributed to the tax cuts. Most Republicans voters are of the unscathed middle class and higher and don’t care about factory-shut downs or the exodus of job...