1. BAILOUTS
If we’re gonna bail out banks and car companies and financial whatevers, why not at least make it a prerequisite before they get the funds, that all the folks in charge who led them into the mess they’re in get fired first and replaced with people who have a track record of more success and financial stability? (Thanks to many who have had this same thought and communicated it to me, especially Tom, not Alameda or a few other of you Toms, but the Southern California (these days) Greek-American one).
2. CONTRACTORS
Since the present administration changed the ways our country fights wars by farming out a lot of the security and prestige war gigs to private contractors, why can’t the Iraqi government use some of that giant surplus they’ve amassed while we’ve been paying their bills, to pay these same contractors to stick around and supply the same security etc. for them while our troops come home to a deserved rest.
3. VETERANS DAY
And speaking of our troops, on this Veterans Day when my eleven-year-old doesn’t even get off from school, hopefully one of the first things Obama and this Democratic Congress will do, with the help of decent Republicans in Congress, will be to make sure returning Iraqi and Afghanistan War veterans are getting the medical and psychological and financial assistance they need to readjust to civilian life, as we did with our veterans in previous wars, even the Cold War (which I benefited from).
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in addition ...
since it has finally been recognized that we are in a "financial crisis", utility companies [including telephone] should be required to extend credit to customers and not disrupt services throughout the crisis ...
there should be a moratorium on all foreclosures and evictions related to the crisis to prevent the 'surge' in homelessness we had in the last depression ...
as part of a federal works program initiative, unemployed white collar pencil necks should be put to the task of investigating the mishandling of foreclosures that occured through the period leading up to the defining moment of "crisis" ... this is where the misrepresentation and coercion from lending institutions ran rampant ...
surcharges should be applied to any vehicle over a certain weight and size not receiving a minimum mpg with a retro-fitting cost attached to recalibrating the vehicle for better efficiency ... that way, all the arrogance of the limbaughites can be redirected toward patriotic initiatives to 'protect and defend' america's failing economy ...
prior to making any arrangement for future auto manufacturing of vehicles with better efficiency or alternative fuels, we should be concerned about the millions of guzzlers on the road ...
finally, because it seems that everyone but kucinich recognizes the need to take punitive action against the bush administration - there should be a referendum to investigate their activities over the past eight years - despite the legistlation the administration evoked to protect themselves because of so-called wartime circumstances ...
this might be a way to uncover more truth behind the causes for the problems we're in ...
i still find it astonishingly coincidental that the cost of the bailout/rescue is the same amount as the apparent cost of the war ...
finally, finally ...
since it became readily apparent during the recent campaign coverage that a huge percentage of america is pretty ignorant about the world - and its' issues at large, grassroot educational programs should be generated throughout the country to employ certified educators on basic world, ethnic, and environmental issues prior to issuing driver licenses or voter registration - let alone citizenship ...
The Obama market continues. The DJIA is down 13.8% since election day. When is he going go to announce his tax policy? In the primary he was a populist with a stick it to the rich bent. In the general,he talked about cutting taxes. If he announced a corporate tax cut from 35 to 25% and a continuation of the current rates on income and capital gains for 4/5years we would see this economy and market come roaring back. Indecision and uncertainty is killing us. It is almost like he wants it that way.
uh-hum ...
the way it works here in america is that once a president is elected to office there is a period that passes before they're sworn in and their policies begin to be implemented - until that time [jan.2oth] you must try to endure the failed policies of the previous administration [g.w.bush] and witness the jockeying of special interest and investors realign themselves in anticipation of policies that may effect them during the next administration ...
long - long before senator obama achieved his bid for the next presidency - america was heading for a fall and the stock market surges of previous weeks ran concurrent with false polling of mccain's supposed success as a last flex effort to deceive a public into believing that the right wing conservative has-been republican party has all the solutions ...
a fitting tribute to greed, corruption, and deception for a failed, antiquated redneck 20th century political machine ...
its' sad and often scary to witness the desperate accusals and denials of bullies ...
Paul,
Is a request for a simple clarification of tax policy so difficult? These are not normal times and this is not a normal transition.
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