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42. I agree, and I like infrastructure repair...

Sun May 18, 2014, 09:45 AM

May 2014

But, people need to be able to get behind a simple idea that doesn't take a lot of effort.

Similar to the way the tea party stands for 'liberty' and 'freedom', but the message has to have a specific action by the government associated with it (whereas freedom and liberty don't).

If like to see an end to homeless veterans and the federal government owns a lot of empty houses. That's an issue that a lot of people could get behind. Set up a program to transfer ownership.

What I see are a lot of laws designed to drive a wedge between the pro-gun/anti-gun types the pro-life/pro-choice LGBT/Christian etc. I think these are distractions to get people to take sides against one another.

We need to pick a 'congress needs to take action now' issue that 90% of the people will support so that people will talk to their neighbor that watches only Fox News. Get people talking to one another about something besides divisive issues. Then we can start demanding specific actions.

I also think we should have a program to put solar panels on the roofs of people near retirement. Eliminate that future expense for folks soon to be on a fixed income.

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