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A few suggestions for the Democrats.

AcostaAcostaMember
Raise the minimum wage. Day one.
Halt all tax cuts that are in Bush bills that have yet to be instituted.
Force the administration to follow FISA law.
Fund Stem-cell research, vigorously and immediately. Appoint Claire McCaskill to head oversight committee.
Cut the interest rate on student loans.
Allow the government to negotiate directly with drug companies.
Pass a bill that will pave the way to universal health care.
Pass the entire 9/11 commission recommendations.
Outlaw or curtail "signing statements". Explain to the American people just what has been going on.
Begin hearings on 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cheney?s energy meetings, Katrina, Pentagon no-bid contracts, congressional ethics violations and ?Plame-gate?. (FYI - Halliburton's stock has gone up 3000% since 2003. Cheney's benefit package has gone from around 250,000 to over 8 million.)
Rescind HR 5122, section 1076
Restart the Middle East peace process.
Hire new inspectors and enforcement officials at the FDA.
Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and insist the FCC use its oversight to reverse the media consolidation of the last 12 years.
Call a halt to all earmarks until the national debt is zero. It?s only 9 trillion now.
Get rid of "No Child Left Behind" or actually fund it. Nah?get rid of it. Let Kennedy come up with a new plan.
Rescind 109-364 H.R.5122
Appoint Al Gore to head a commission to create new environmental policy. (This would really piss Bush off)
Create an energy policy that's not a license to print money for the oil companies and emphasizes alternative energy sources.
Create a fair immigration policy that does not penalize the American worker.
Insist that voting machines have a paper trail or some other tracking mechanism. Put the process in public, not private, hands.
Close Gitmo.
Get rid, once and for all, of John Bolton.
Investigate Alberto Gonzales.
Figure out a way to get Cheney under oath.
Make John Murtha Democratic leader in the House.

A few suggestions for the Republicans.

Get over it.
Stop crying.
Kiss my ass.
? O. Z. Acosta
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AcostaAcostaMember
Originally Posted By: indianrunner
Thinking of future elections, I say, go slowly.

DO NOT ALIENATE middle of the road voters.
You're probably right. I surfed around last night looking at bLogs. Most people seem to have the same general ideas. I thought this was interesting:

* Cut the Alternative Minimum Tax so it doesn?t slam the middle class, and roll back the Bush tax cuts for the rich. ? Open Medicare to every American who needs affordable health insurance, and use Medicare?s resulting huge bargaining clout to reduce drug prices.
* Bar companies from deducting from their corporate income taxes any executive pay in excess of $1 million a year. ? Raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation.
* Reform Social Security by eliminating the ceiling on payments so people earning over $100,000 a year pay the same percent of their income as everyone else.
* Raise fuel economy standards, eliminate subsidies to the oil companies, and use the money instead for basic R&D in non-carbon based energy.
* Renegotiate the Kyoto protocols on greenhouse gas emissions. ? And while we?re at it, reaffirm the Geneva Conventions.

Robert B. Reich
? O. Z. Acosta
AcostaAcostaMember
Originally Posted By: turfman
So what was the source?
No C&P on this one, but I did pick up a few ideas from various bLogs. Like:

Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and insist the FCC use its oversight to reverse the media consolidation of the last 12 years. I think this is self-explanatory. A lot of bloggers are railing about how mass media is now in the hands of a few.

Call a halt to all earmarks until the national debt is zero. One way to go about it. Not the only way.

Create a fair immigration policy that does not penalize the American worker. Kind of obvious, but I don't know enough to be specific. A 700 mile fence? Nah.
? O. Z. Acosta
JoebabyJoebabyMember
Originally Posted By: Acosta
Originally Posted By: turfman
So what was the source?
No C&P on this one, but I did pick up a few ideas from various bLogs. Like:

Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and insist the FCC use its oversight to reverse the media consolidation of the last 12 years. I think this is self-explanatory. A lot of bloggers are railing about how mass media is now in the hands of a few.

Call a halt to all earmarks until the national debt is zero. One way to go about it. Not the only way.

Create a fair immigration policy that does not penalize the American worker. Kind of obvious, but I don't know enough to be specific. A 700 mile fence? Nah.


So good of you to assist RDW in the Google search he'll use to discredit you.
Just when they think they have all the answers, I come and change all the questions.
AcostaAcostaMember
Originally Posted By: newscott
Originally Posted By: Acosta
Originally Posted By: bgboss
I'm here to tell you he copies all of his drum licks too!
Yeah! We're in a fricking cover band.


You ever play that nifty little solo from the Beatles song "The End"? I love that.

Yes, yes I have. I like that one too. Short and sweet. The back story on that is that Paul had to beg Ringo to do a solo because Ringo hated doing them. It's a great fit in the medley.
? O. Z. Acosta
DanaDanaMember
Originally Posted By: Acosta
* Reform Social Security by eliminating the ceiling on payments so people earning over $100,000 a year pay the same percent of their income as everyone else.


Let me cherry pick one for an inflammatory question:

Why should someone pay far more into the system than they will ever get out, especially when Social Security was never designed to be a social welfare program?
If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
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