Reply #22: My platform?

[Cascadian]

1. Pull troops out of Iraq by the end 2006. Help finance Iraq's rebuilding.

2. Call for a referendum in the territories of Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. They must choose either independence or statehood. Support statehood for D.C.

3. Bring all our forces home from overseas and pull out of NATO. Declare a neutral defnse policy while continuing membership in the U.N. and other international organizations. This is not isolationism.

4. Universal, one payer health insurence for those who cannot afford it.

5. Bring back Corporate Charters and give corporations tax incentives for those who practice greater workers rights and safety. Plus keeping jobs inside the U.S.

6. Sign the Kyoto Accord. Have an energy policy that emphasizes alternative resources like hydrogen, wind, and solar.

7. Reinforce the separation of Church and State by creating legislation to bar religion and the Christian Right's influence from our laws.

8. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine to the media.

9. End the death penalty.

10. Decriminalize marijuana and hemp.

11. Readress the issue of global trade and work to make it where everybody benefits from the CEO to the workers worldwide.

12. Have a even handed Middle East policy. Take no sides. Cut funding to Israel and Palestine until a time is such where they can have a comprehensive peace plan.

13. Treat terrorism not as a war. These acts are criminal and must be met with punishment for those who do these acts and yet study and try to understand why these acts happen. Let's remove the sympton to avoid the cause.




Just my ideal platform. Take it or leave it.


John