2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein offers ‘collaboration’ with Bernie Sanders [View all]Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)policies. Like FDRs policies, programs, and his 2nd Bill of Rights:
The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the Nation;
The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
The right of every family to a decent home;
The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment;
The right to a good education.
Most Americans do not endorse endless war and regime change, trade agreements which enshrine a global corporate government, for profit healthcare, lack of social safety net and privatization of social security, privatized mandatory education, more tax cuts for the already bloated rich, gutting of epa and other regulatory agencies, further deregulation of banking and investment industry, more jobs shipped overseas, more hb-1 worker imports, etc ad nauseum.