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In reply to the discussion: Pew has a new short test to find out your ideology [View all]hunter
(40,726 posts)Or throwing a few health care executives in jail for murder, along with all the crooked bankers and pedophile clergymen and all those government and church officials who protected them?
How about establishing a single payer national health care system?
How about raising the minimum wage, reducing the workweek, lowering the retirement age and establishing generous welfare benefits for the unemployed and those who can't work, and generous pensions for the retired.
How about cutting 90% from the Defense budget and the Prison industry?
How about ending the "War on Drugs" and treating drug abuse as a medical problem?
How about replacing all airline traffic less than 500 miles with high speed electric downtown-to-downtown train service?
Etc., etc.
And some of their questions were push-polls.
"The government should do more to help needy Americans, even if it means going deeper into debt????" I mean, really? Fuck that. Simply print more money whenever the ruling class gets stingy, and then squeeze them, not the poor and middle class to control inflation. Easy.
I don't think I'm a member of their 14%...