What are your three biggest issues?

[Taverner]

Me?

1 - Get out of Iraq

2 - Climate Change

3 - End the drug war

[madrchsod]

1. health care

employment
war

[illinoisprogressive]

2. Your first 2 and for the last one I have free trade and middle class jobs.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. first two the same.

3) Gut the CIA and use the money to revamp the Peace Corps.

[hamerfan]

4. Good ones.

1. Out of Iraq.

2. Economic stability, for the country and its countrymen.

3. Reversal/slowdown of humans impact on climate.


dumpbush

[Turbineguy]

5. Here:

1. Iraq

2. Iraq

3. Iraq

In that order.

[Joe Chi Minh]

8. Don't you mean, "but not necessarily in that order....?"

[Stuckinthebush]

6. Personally?

High cholesterol

A bounced check (which, by the way is bogus! There was money in the account!)

A really smelly toilet


Now...the biggest issues for the country as I see it are:

Iraq

The assault on the constitution

Health care

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. Suggestions

for your personal priorities:

1. Garlic

2. Mention the State Banking Commission to your bank if you think they are engaged in shady practices

3. Go to sawdust toilets where you add diatemaceous earth to keep down smell (saves on your water bill, too, and the product can be composted and used to fertize non-food plants.)

[Stuckinthebush]

41. Hmmmm....

sawdust toilets you say? Interesting....

[femmedem]

7. Mine:

1. Climate change
2. No more wars, covert or overt, to steal other countries' resources.
3. Health care

The first two were easy, the third was tough. Ending the drug wars, economic justice, civil liberties, all matter to me a lot.

[kellenburger]

9. health care...

then the economy

then putting everything back to 1998

[Lost-in-FL]

10. Biggest issues

1. Amendment to criminalize forgery of bills aka "signing statements".
2. Iraq
3. Rebuild cities affected by Katrina

[zonkers]

11. Dean's Scream. Sandy Berger's sticking documents in his sock & recapping Carter's Malaise speech.

(on edit) Just a sort-of rant on the notion that regardless of what kind and intelligent people think the issue should be, the MSM will somehow, at just the right time, hit us with a wall of bullshit.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

12. Mine

1-Change our foreign policy so that we stop engaging in endless war and conflict to obtain dwindling resources for corporations.

2-Change our way of viewing work so that our government priority is to make sure Americans have useful jobs rather than subsidizing corporate outsourcing.

3-Change our way of viewing health and wellness so that wellness is stressed and a variety of ways to maintain health are allowed under a single payer system.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

13. My Impulse Control Disorder, Harsh Tone At Times, And Obsession With Getting The Last Word.

.....Oh wait. You meant political issues?

In THAT case,

Iraq

Healthcare

Global Warming

[mike_c]

22. that explains a LOT, dude....

:rofl: :hi:

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

43. LOL But There's SO MUCH MORE EVEN!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(Hey, if we can't poke fun at ourselves, ya know? LOL )

[blm]

51. Anti-corruption (get books open on BushInc), corpmedia watchdog, public financing

of campaigns and election fraud.

All of the issues link up apparently.

[Eurobabe]

15. Exit Iraq, Foreign Policy, Shitty Dollar policy

[sandnsea]

16. Iraq, health care, global warming

It's beyond my comprehension that the drug war could be on anybody's top 3 list. Education? Poverty? Polluted water? Global labor exploitation? AIDS?

If you don't want to get caught up in the drug war, don't use drugs. Everybody has some personal control over that, as opposed to all the other problems we face.

[femmedem]

61. It didn't make my top 3, but I understand how it could:

We have over 2 million Americans in our prison system. Our incarceration rate is 7-10 times that of most democracies. The incarceration of nonviolent drug users (as opposed to treatment) leaves children without parents. Many prisoners suffer human rights abuses while incarcerated, only to come out and find it impossible to find a job.

I do understand what you're saying about personal control. But people are paying for the rest of their lives for mistakes they made in their teens.

[H2O Man]

17. {1} the war

{2} the environment
{3} the economy

These three are, of course, connected with each other, and with other closely-related and extremely significant issues.

[VelmaD]

18. 1. equal rights for all

2. ending poverty
3. peace

[MikeNearMcChord]

19. Many good points here, it may take more than 2-term presidncy

to restore our country.

My 3 issues
Restoring the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Ending the war
Giving the middle and the working classes relief.(outlawing outsourcing for starters.

[mike_c]

20. get out of Iraq, health care reform, and foreign policy reform....

Environmental protection is more like fourth on my list, but since protecting corporate profits is WAY WAY down near the bottom, environmental protection and alternative energy research would get a big boost anyway.

[OhioChick]

21. No Particular Order...

Iraq

Economy/Outsourcing

Healthcare

[Hepburn]

23. Mine are...

...

Iraq

Healthcare

Global warming

[Radical Activist]

24. Iraq, environment, decentralize the media.

I really wish the party would pay more attention to breaking up the media conglomerates that make it impossible to get the truth out.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

30. I think political intervention in the media is a very dangerous precedent to set.

I'd far rather have a biased but independent media than one answerable to politicians.

Here in the UK, the BBC provides excellent service but it has a long and very carefully guarded tradition of independence, and to be honest I think that if it did not exist it would not be necessary to invent it.

[Radical Activist]

40. I'm not arguing for government control of the media.

We got where we are because the government ended its policy of not allowing a single company to own too large a slice of the media pie. I think that was a good policy and we should bring it back.

Censorship is no longer a government issue. Censorship is five or six CEO's having the power to decide what information we do or do not hear about. They are the ones who have the power of censorship today and they use it frequently.

[KamaAina]

25. This, I believe:

1) Katrina recovery. It'd be a national disgrace even if it weren't New Orleans. As it is, it's a worldwide disgrace.

2) Get out of Iraq.

3) End the war on the Constitution.

[cynatnite]

26. Poverty, environment and world stability n/t

[Donald Ian Rankin]

27. In terms of American politics, or here in the UK?

If I had to pick three things to judge UK politicians on then the first would undoubtedly be education, and the other two... I don't know... civil liberties and taxation, I guess.

In America, I think the most pressing issues are probably education, taxation and the war with Iraq - you need more of the first two and less of the third.

[SaveElmer]

28. Long term...energy, environment, health care...

Short term...

Undoing 6 years of Bush damage...

Iraq

[BeatleBoot]

29. The Economy is Number One

1) The Economy. (And as a subset, NAFTA,Corporate corruption,Deficit)

2) Health Care.

3) Impeachment.


My brief comments on each:

1) The Economy: The Automobile Industry is to Detroit as the Steel Industry is to Pittsburgh.

2) Health Care: You need to be employed to have health care? This is insanity.

3) Impeachment: Like the things we've seen the past 7 years aren't high crimes and misdemeanors?

[LiberalEsto]

31. Limiting corporate power

Taking action to stop climate change

Providing universal single-payer healthcare

[smirkymonkey]

45. Mine are the same.

Until we end the almost limitless power of corporations and the extremely wealthy, none of these other problems will be solvable.

To me, the stranglehold that corporate wealth has on issues that affect the nation - and the entire planet - needs to be broken before any real change can be accomplished.

[razors edge]

32. ...

1) End to all direct foreign aid (foreign entanglements, terrorist motivation)

2) End to Federal Reserve (congress must issue currency, not the private, unknown entities with unknown agendas)

3) End to Electoral College (Let my people vote)

[trashcanistanista]

33. Mine

1, Out of Iraq Now

2, Impeach both Bush and Cheney Simultaneously

3, Global Warming

[countingbluecars]

34. Three biggest issues for me

1. Iraq

2. Climate Change

3. Education

[WI_DEM]

35. 1) Iraq 2) poverty 3) Health care

[Catchawave]

36. vision, judgement and compassion....

the rest are just details :D

[RB TexLa]

37. End the war, more opening of world markets, human rights (Sudan to start)

[TheFarseer]

38. 1. Keep high paying jobs in America

2. Pay off the debt

3. Develop a real, sustainable plan for renewable energy

where's Iraq? if we had thought of #3 a few years ago, we wouldn't be in Iraq in the first place. I contend we will only leave the second the last drop of oil is in an Exxon oil tanker.

[mondo joe]

39. Civil rights (including equality for gays); Separation of church & state; Economic

fairness

[leftofthedial]

42. Three biggest

1. climate change

2. out of Iraq

3. economy, which I believe is a combination of jobs, health-care, corporate regulation, huge tax increases for the wealthy, minimum-and-maximum-wage changes and education costs.

[More Than A Feeling]

44. 1. Public Financing 2. Out of Iraq and end human rights abuses 3. Encouraging unionism

Iraq and ending torture/unaccountability are of immediate concern, and public financing/increasing unionism are the two biggest things left-wingers can do to lay the foundation for any future reforms.

[Odin2005]

46. 1. Global Warming and Energy

2. The shrinking middle class

3. Healthcare

And others:

Get out of Iraq
Send more troops to Afghanistan
Limit corporate power, revoke corporate personhood, support co-ops
Net Neutrality
Totally revamp the education system, get college tuition cost down drastically
Support Embryonic Stem Cell research
publicly funded elections.

and in the long term, a new constitution with a parliamentary system, the Imperial Presidency MUST GO.

[Fierce]

47. Labor, choice and labor.

nt

[lovuian]

48. Health care

Iraq War

Global Warming

[mdmc]

49. end the drug war, sane foreign policy, firm epa standards

:toast:r

[Sir Jeffrey]

50. Iraq, universal health care and war profiteering nt

[HughBeaumont]

52. 1. ECONOMIC FAIRNESS. Ending Corporate personhood. Fair trade not Free trade.

2. Ending the War in Iraq
3. Single Payer Health Care.
4. Revitalizing our infrastructure.
5. Decriminalizing industrial hemp (contributes to point 4).
6. More funding and research for alternative fuels.

[stuntcat]

53. 1-environment, 2-health, 3-poverty

.

[Jcrowley]

54. Radically slash

the US military budget and influence on US politics.

Everything else is hitched to that.

When you take a close look at the three you mentioned you'll see how they are part and parcel of the US Military-Industrial Machinery. Number one contributor to global greenhouse gasses? The Pentagon.

[MrSlayer]

55. Jobs, Health care, Iraq.

The most pressing issues in my opinion.

[sweetheart]

56. 3

1. - end the wars (drugs war too)
2. - a new constitution
3. - a treason trial for all republicans in government on 9/11
and all generals and admirals of the military.

[flvegan]

57. I have only one: Govern and lead without selfishness

Sorta solves all the rest, I think. That's my issue...our leaders being directed, and not leading.

[entanglement]

58. You've deeply offended all the single issue folk with this thread

Very sad :cry:

;)

[ChaoticSilly]

59. Hard to narrow down to just 3

but here goes...

1) Security.

No, not that kind of security, not "OMG evil-doer terrasts are comin' to get us cause we offended Jesus, we're all gonna die and miss the big sale at WalMart, help me, help me!" kind of security.

More along the lines of "Well, unemployment is up so working conditions are down, now my employer expects me to work 12 hour shifts with no lunch break which I can't do because of medical reasons so I'm going to end up getting fired and getting kicked out of my house and won't be able to see a doctor for that medical condition since the only jobs available pay minimum wage or less" type of security. (Partially true story that I'm hoping doesn't become completely true)

2) Getting out of Iraq and preventing our "president" from attacking any other country covertly, overtly, militarily or economically.

3) Cleaning up the damage that decades of "I'm an American so buying tons of useless cheap plastic crap from WalMart, eating 50 lbs of fast food a day, driving 10 gallon/mile armored tanks 2 blocks to the mall to buy the latest boy band CD and maxing out my credit cards to put a ten foot big screen television in every room of my overpriced 3000 square foot house including all 5 bathrooms and the entry hall closet so I can watch advertisements telling me to buy more useless junk are my birthrights, but we just can't afford subsidized higher education or universal healthcare" has done to the environment, the economy and ourselves.

...

4) Run on sentences. :evilgrin:

[dysfunctional press]

60. 1-environment/global warming 2- health care 3- energy independence

as long as i have a good & dependable weed connection, the war on drugs doesn't phase me.

[sendero]

62. For me..

... it's the Iraq war, the "war" on terror, the new US unilaterism.

Second would be the economic justice, economic management, and FAIR trade

Third would be energy independence, alternative energy development, and conservation

Oh wait, that's nine :) Or is it?

[benEzra]

63. Civil liberties are #1, IMO...

Civil liberties...

Health care...

The hemorrhage of money and jobs overseas...










...and stay the hell out of people's gun safes. The gun issue is pretty much off the table now that the Feinstein ban is dead. Keep it that way.

[The2ndWheel]

64. 1) Agriculture

2) Technology

3) The massive problems that will be caused by either decreasing or increasing the power of agriculture and technology.

[marmar]

65. 1. Poverty.....2. Militarism/Corporatism....3, Climate Change, 'cause....

none of the issues will matter if we've all drowned.

[Coventina]

66. Global warming. Global warming. Global warming.

But while we're working on that:

Get out of Iraq.