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Now
that it is almost certain that Hillary Clinton will win the
Democratic nomination, we are all being requested to fall in behind
the standard bearer. And I expect that I will because the threat of
another Republican administration, whether Trump or otherwise, is too
horrible to contemplate. But I do resent it, because I do not like
Hillary's policies, not even a little bit, its just that she is the
lessor of two evils.
So to be specific, here are some positions I would like any candidate I support to have:
So to be specific, here are some positions I would like any candidate I support to have:
1.
I would want any candidate I supported be in favor of canceling all
H1B visas and that companies in this country should hire the many
qualified Americans instead.
2.
I would want any candidate I supported be in favor of a salary and
compensation cap on executives, perhaps limiting them to some
multiple of the lowest salary they pay, perhaps 35 (*) times the
lowest salary.
3.
I would want any candidate I support to be vocal about his or her
desire to change the unemployment metric to include those who are
long-term unemployed or underemployed.
4.
I would want any candidate I support to be vocal about change to the
poverty threshold to make it a more reasonable measure of those who
are very poor in this country.
5.
I would want any candidate I support to change the way we do loans
for education, higher, lower or middle, to make it more along the
lines of the Australian system.
6.
I would want any candidate I support to be vocal about seeing that
globalization is not artificially encouraged by lowering or
destroying standards for environmental control, as has happened at
the Port of Los Angeles.
7.
I would want any candidate I support to be vocal about seeing that
that those who encouraged and executed torture in our name to be
prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
8.
I would want any candidate I support to work to end the grossly
unfair difference between criminal sentences for black people vs
white and white collar crime. How can it be just for a black man who
stole a stapler in Alabama go to jail for life while John Ehrlichman
went to jail for 18 months?
9.
I would want any candidate I support to be vocal about seeing to it
that local police forces obey the letter and intent of the law, and
that those who do not have criminal prosecution brought against them.
10.
I would want any candidate I support to be especially vocal about
ending the kinds of abuse that one finds in the Orange County
Attorney General's office with its illegal use of informants and its
perjury regarding the use of databases, and its use of such
information to get convictions against innocent citizens.
11.
I would want to know why the DOJ did not bring criminal prosecution
against the DEA in San Diego.
12.
I would want to know why the DOJ did not bring criminal prosecution
against the many people in the savings and loan industry for their
criminal malfeasance in the 2008 bailout.
13.
I would want to change the capital gains taxes to exempt those with
under a million dollars in capital, but greatly increase the rate as
the capital went above 10 or 20 million dollars worth. In other
words, no capital gains taxes for the poor or middle class, but much
larger taxes against the very rich. And maybe even a tax on capital
itself for those with over 250 M or some other suitably chosen
number. In other words, I am not interested in hearing that we do
not have the money for education when rich people fly around in their
100 million dollar jets. Just not interested.
14.
I would want my candidate to attempt to restore many tax breaks to
the middle class, such as the tax exemption for education which
Reagan took away.
15.
I would want to change our justice system so that the poor really do
have access to good legal counsel instead of just paying lip service
to it.
16.
I would expect any candidate I support to be vocal about seeing that
public education was as good as private education.
17.
I would expect any candidate I support to work to bring a sense of
justice and proportion to our corrupt medical system. I would expect
doctors be required to work some percentage of the time in a clinic
for the poor, that their salaries would be limited to that which a
public servant makes, say, for example, teachers. I would want to
evaluate what pharmaceutical companies charge for their medications.
For example, I regularly do an off patent generic which sells for
over 180 times its cost of production.
Of
course, I would not expect any candidate to support all of these, but
I might want him or her to support some of them. And I would not
expect that he or she could get all or maybe even any of these
through Congress, but I would expect them to try.
As
Senator Bulworth said in the fabulous movie of the same name, to the
black congregation of a church where he is speaking, “What are you
going to do, vote Republican?”
I
have no doubt I will vote for whoever the Democratic Party nominates.
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(*)
Any numbers suggested here are examples only and should be taken with
a grain of salt.
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