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Impeach George Bush
Issues for 08
Well, here they are, whether you like them or not, in order. These are the only things our country should be talking about I think, and the only way we should come out on them.
Source: Robbie lindauer, 2007-03-11
Candidate: Big Government
Unfortunately, creeping pragmatism molds all politics into a pandering for the lowest common denominator. Consequently, failing getting what would be actually good for anyone, we end up with what we can all sort of live with with the fewest exceptions, hopefully.
Usually that means the powerful shoving their agendas down the weak's throat just far enough so that there's still room to breathe.
But everybody knows that.
Hopefully, though, these will be the things we can't live without:
1) Leaving Iraq.
Yes, that's right, Iraq is killing us. Killing us now, killing us later. It's the gift that keeps on killing. And what we can't live without is leaving. Bush and Cheney got us in this mess for their profit. I say we turn over the country to Haliburton and Cheney and withdraw american support altogether. It's their bed, let them sleep in it.
Banishment, is that what I'm suggesting? Well, it's more humane than being tarred and feathered which is what the two of them deserve for their treasonous misrepresentations to the American People and Congress regarding the threat in Iraq.
And if we don't leave Iraq soon, we'll be in Iran and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and wherever else the Islamic Terror-war leads us. And that means more body-bags in the prosecution of what will amount to a racial and religious genocide. Sound familiar?
2) Health Care.
That's right, you can't live without some kind of health care. And now that the Big Insurance Industry has their grubby little hands in every possible transaction that a health-care professional might take, those transactions cost 3-5 times what they used to. Yup, that's right. In 1980, you could go to the doctor and have him examine you and give you a penicillin injection for $40 or less. Today that visit will be two visits, one to a nurse, and the entire transaction a paper cost of $240+. Thank goodness you have insurance, right?
Wrong. More and more companies are getting away with what they can, namely making you pay for your insurance, and if you're self-employed, forget it.
So the feds have got to step in some how or else, well, all the poor people who can't afford to be part of this explosion of insurance rates are gonna, frankly and litterally, die.
3) Energy
Okay, I just said out of Iraq. But let's face it, half our country would freeze to death if we don't have a way to heat their homes during the winter and nearly all of us would starve to death if the trucks don't make it to a local supermarket or co-op. This means we have to solve this problem and do it quick because if we don't, next thing we'll be doing is invading Venezuela. And how is that going to look on the resume?
So whoever becomes president has to have a plan for fulfilling our energy needs with a renewable and long-term viable source. My money is on Nuclear energy, but I'm of course hoping that solar will pan out.
4) Gerrymandering.
The democrats promised to fix the electoral problems that have plagued our nation since the republicans learned how to fix elections. In the end, if our politicians don't at least in a plausible theory, represent the will of our people, the people no matter how stupid, will revolt and there will be a civil war. Which means this is an issue we're going to have to fix.
What we should be looking for is someone who requires that the publicly owned airwaves be controlled by the Elections Commission for the duration of the electoral candidacy and that monetary donations to election funds be banished altogether --- or whatever we can get close to that....
5) Economic Policy
The united states is bleeding money by the billions due to trade deficits world wide. Most of this money is being fed to us in the form of debt to the Chinese. Eventually that debt will either have to be paid or we'll have to explain to the chinese why they're not getting their money. Paying that debt will require us actually producing things of value here in the United States and making money that can then be paid to those chinese. Most of this has been due to very poor fiscal planning on the part of the Administration.
Will this kill us? Yes. If we can't start "pulling our weight" in the world economy, we're going to end up a third world country where people have to walk down to the river to get their water and pee because who's going to sell us the oil to run the pumps and purifiers?
This means the next president needs a plan to start reversing the trade deficit and paying of the debt as well as a plan to return all those overseas jobs to the US, and fast.
6) Ecological Policy
We know that our environment is changing radically as a result of the rapid expansion of human civilization in the world. We know that this expansion is destroying species daily and that it is nearly unstoppable. We also know that if we tear down all of the great bounty that nature provides for us and put up shopping malls and parking lots, we'll end up with a worthless world in which no sane person would want to take a walk, but it's worse than this.
We're poisoning our water and air supplies. This is incredibly stupid because these two fundamental resources are essential to every step along our food chain, and if we don't stop it, the poisons in our food systems will end up so intense that eating a chicken will soon become deadly because they've been eating poisonous food grown with poisonous water, etc, etc.
And so whichever president we choose has got to propose a way to avoid this cycle of devestation and bring the notion of renewable food and energy sources to the forefront of the political and scientific agenda.
7) Foreign Policy
After 8 years of utter mismanagement, even our closest allies, the British, will be distancing ourselves from us if we don't repent and try to do the simple, honest and just things that make mutual agreements between nations possible - obeying treaties, cooperating with international regulating groups, etc. Our next president will have to show us how to pave the road to being the good guys again.
Here's what's NOT ON THE LIST:
Gay marriage: while it's important, the states have control over it and that appears to be working great. Gay and want to be married? Do it in a state that permits it. Don't like married gays? Stay somewhere it's not permitted. Everybody's happy.
Flag Burning: I don't know that liberals burn flags any more. Now we wear them as thongs... Should we make it illegal to wear an image of the flag? What will we do with the Uniforms that have flags on them? How about my Captain American Huggers?
Immigration: Again, who cares? Our statue of Liberty says give us the poor, the weak, etc. Let's live up to it. Is this killing anyone? No.
War on drugs: Seriously, who cares. Please stop the war on drugs. Making them illegal just improves the profit margins for the drug dealers. Making it legal would foster competition making the profit margins slimmer and finally dwindling it to a minor societal health problem, nothing like the size of Alcohol or Obiesety.
Defense: Is anyone seriously going to propose that we need to be raising our military spending to prepare for the coming threat-down with Iran? When has that ever worked?
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