You be the judge…
1. Immediate Relief:
A moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. Reset mortgages so payments are affordable. No bail outs for banks.
Extend unemployment compensation, increase payments and eligibility. Increase food stamps, WIC, children’s health insurance, and low income energy assistance.
Assist deficit-ridden state and local governments so they can preserve services and jobs.
Fund “readyto-go” infrastructure projects.
2. A Peacetime, Green Jobs Economy for All:
Enact massive public works job creation to make existing buildings energy efficient, construct new schools, hospitals, affordable housing, mass transit and bridges. Priority to areas hurt by loss of manufacturing, loss of family farms and highest unemployment
areas including the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast.
Major clean, affordable energy development project for solar, wind and biomass electricity generation.
Immediate program to cut greenhouse gas emissions and for environmental cleanup.
Restore Federal energy regulation and encourage public ownership of utilities.
Enact the Employee Free Choice Act to enable workers to form unions without intimidation and win higher wages and benefits, dignity and respect.
Enact HR 676 the US National Health Insurance Act to provide universal health insurance with singlepayer financing.
Fully fund public education from pre-school through higher education and technical training.
No privatization of Social Security or Medicare. Expand and improve benefits.
3. Restore Civil Rights, the Bill of Rights and Separation of Powers:
Restore Civil Rights Act
Enforcement, affirmative action in employment, education, and housing.
End the “school to prison” pipeline.
Outlaw hate crimes. Preserve Roe v. Wade.
Pass immigration reform with legalization, a path to citizenship, due process, no militarization of the borders, and no exploitative guest worker programs. No human being is illegal.
Repeal Patriot Act. Restore Habeas Corpus rights. No more torture. Investigate and prosecute Bush administration violations of the Constitution.
Expand voting rights. Enact publicly financed elections, same day registration,voting rights for ex-felons, verifiable voting equipment, and instant runoff voting.
Restore Fairness Doctrine in media.
4. Strength through Peace:
Withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq with no bases or U.S. corporations left behind.
Full care for returning veterans.
No war on Iran or expansion of troops in Afghanistan.
Assistance to Iraqi people to rebuild their country.
Adopt a new foreign policy of diplomacy and respect for all nations, instead of preemptive war for corporate interests.
Renew commitment to UN peace role.
End trade policies that enrich corporations while destroying jobs.
Ratify Kyoto Treaty and other climate change agreements.
Enforce nuclear non-proliferation, work to abolish nuclear weapons.
Cut Pentagon spending in half, close down US bases around the world.
http://www.cpusa.org/filemanager/download/89/2008.pdf
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…Looks like the only thing missing is a "civilian national security force," to be as powerful as all our Armed Forces combined, just as strong and as well-funded with an annual budget of around $439 billion:
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” – B. Hussein Obama
No doubt solving urban unemployment. Perhaps a cross between Hitler Youth and the Gestapo?
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