____ 14. Provide free post high school, public education
for students whose parent(s) have an annual income of less than $100,000.
____ 15. Reduce taxes for small businesses; increase
taxes on large corporations.
____ 16. Provide more restrictions on the ownership
of firearms--with comprehensive registration, background checks, and national
standardization.
____ 17. Legalize commercial hemp, medical
marijuana, and the private use of marijuana for adults, on a national
level.
____ 18. Call for a new, independent investigation
of 9/11 with subpoena powers,
____ 19. Provide incentives for local and organic
food production and alternative health practices. Require that all genetically modified foods be labeled.
____ 20. Allow citizens of the 50 states to
restructure their state governments from the bottom-up, not the top-down: from
the neighborhood block club, to the precinct, township, county, and state
levels. Each level of legislative government can make executive and judicial branch appointments. Representatives at a state
level, for example, can be voted out of office completely at all levels by the
voters in the precinct, township, or county that the state representative
emerged from. Representatives at each level would vote among themselves to send
a representative to the next level above it.
State constitutions can be rewritten using a democratic process.
____ 21. Increase abortion rights and the rights for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.
____ 22. Empower the seven largest, national
political parties, using a system of proportional representation to elect 100
individuals to meet at a Constitutional Convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution,
in which the delegates will work for three entire months to get a 51 percent or
higher approval of any proposed, new constitution. (In other writings, this author has laid out
a 23-month timeline for this process to occur).
____ 23. Establish workplace democracy in companies
that have seven or more employees.
____24. Allow Americans to visit Cuba if they choose.
____25. Bail out the the people--no more bailouts of the big banks.
____26. Stop the drone strikes, the abuse of the Patriot Acts, the Guantanaomo torture prison, the needless NSA spying, and the excessive security measures at airports.
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comments to help this project get started. The author's previous article entitled "Can Paleoconservatives, Libertarians, and Leftists Unite Against the Neocons?" which was published at OpEdNews.com provides more information as to why the Coalition Against Neocons (CAN) is urgently needed. Please print and circulate this survey, and discuss it among family members and friends. Submit it to your elected officials.
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