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Proposed Solutions
Proposed solutions, work to be done, needs, reform, change actions, etc. Reform actions which address concerns, problems, deficient systems and methods and their underlying causes identified above.
1. Cooperative, ethical leaders, legislators, judges, executives, etc. throughout the public and private sectors who care for all people, promote the general welfare, follow the rule of law, protect peoples rights, etc.
2. Refine, expand and implement the Peoples Information, Education and Training Program. A proposed draft outline is at http://www.wtpnow.org/peoples_information_and_education_program.pdf.
3. Refine, reach agreement on and execute the Proposed Plan to End Violence in Iraq & Withdraw U.S. Armed Forces in a Peaceful, Just and Timely Manner http://www.wethepeoplenow.org/proposed_plan_iraq.pdf
4. Refine, reach agreement on and execute the Plan to Replace Bush and Others with Well Qualified Individuals .
5. Develop humane, fair and legal and constitutional immigration policy, legislation and practices.
6. In a reiterative process:
a. Examine past, current and planned spending and current spending priorities.
b. Examine past, current and planned taxes and revenue generation.
c. As necessary, adjust current and planned spending. Reduce/eliminate unneeded nuclear and other offensive weapons, corporation subsidies and other unnecessary government spending.
7. Get money, corporation executives and their lobbyist out of politics and insure that the people have control over their government.
8. Fair taxes
9. Education:
a. Use encouragement and nurturing to decrease/eliminate school drop outs and suspensions.
b. Create more vocational education opportunities in high school for everyone and in particular for students who do not intend to go to immediately go to college bound.
c. Track students after their graduation to determine to obtain feedback for schools.
d. Students who do not master grade level reading, writing and arithmetic should receive special attention.
e. Encourage parents to attend be or involved in children’s schools, attend parent-teacher conferences, PTSA meetings, etc.
10. Health:
a.National single payer physical, dental, and emotional health and long term care system.
b. Take steps to reduce costs
i. Used “best practices”
11. Provide job opportunities and education and training programs, for everyone in particular in areas such: as curtailing and ameliorating the ill effects of global warming, environmental protection, developing alternative energy sources, transportation and traffic programs that emphasizes more trains - less traffic and reduces dependence on foreign oil, etc. Funds for this work to come to from ending the occupation of Iraq, reduction/eliminations of the massive, unneeded nuclear and other offensive weapons systems, corporate subsidies, etc. priority items.
12. Transportation:
a. Develop comprehensive open ended integrated international, national, regional, state, district, and locality plans that consider global warming.
13. Enforced rule of law with civil, human, economic, etc., rights observed for all
14. Global cooperation & diplomacy instead of bullying, threats and war.
15. Strengthened and more effective:
a.United Nations, UN Agencies, and NGO’s
b.International peacekeeping forces
c.International Criminal Courts
16. Drastically reduced government spending on programs that do not promote the general welfare.
17. Eliminate nuclear weapons and drastically reduce unnecessary weapons systems and programs.
18. Openness and transparency in public & private sectors
19. Clean, renewable energy sources
20. Fair versus free trade
21. Close gaps between the rich and poor
22. Break up media monopolies
a. Enforcing anti-trust laws.
23. Regulated non usury interest rates
24. Eliminate corporate personhood
25. Eliminate unconstitutional patent extensions
26. Develop and execute comprehensive open ended plans for the U.S. role to:
27. Resolve the U.S. Iran greater diplomacy toward Iran. Ask your Representative to co-sponsor H.R. 5056 and support hearings that will promote direct negotiations with Iran without preconditions. Ask them to take this action with the goal of creating a new and productive dialogue between the two countries.
Ask your Representative to co-sponsor H.R. 5056 and support greater diplomacy with Ira
28.the U.S.-Syria situation.
29. Help to resolve the Israel-Palestine-Lebanon situations.
30. Promote global nuclear and offensive weapons disarmament.
XXXI. Get money, corporation executives and their lobbyist out of politics and put control of the government into the people's hands.
XXXII. Election Reform (http://www.independentamerica.org) to include:
A. Uniform, Fair Ballot Access for federal candidates. Rather than candidates for president having 51 different rules for making the ballot, make the criteria uniform throughout the land.
B. Loosen Third Party Ballot Restrictions. Force states to untie ballot access to past election results. Without fair ballot access in place, the thresholds to become a recognized third party are too difficult to achieve (by design of the Big Two). Currently only 37 states have at least one recognized third party and that changes based on election results.
C. Universal Voter Registration. Legislation has already been passed that will require government standardized identification cards which should be acceptable to election officials to allow anyone who shows up at the right precinct on Election Day to vote on-the-spot whether registered or not.
D. Extended Election Hours. Either hold elections on weekends or move it to a holiday like Columbus Day in October.
E. Media Access for third party contenders to include broadcast time on public airwaves and inclusion in debates.
F. Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) which allows voters to rank their choices. If no candidate gets a majority of the vote – over 50% - then the lowest number of first place votes is eliminated and the second place votes are counted. This continues until a candidate secures a majority.
G. Secure the Vote - Ensure the security of our voting instruments whether it is via a papertrail or some better method. Six years since the Florida debacle should have provided secure voting machines. Electronic machines subject to manipulation are not the answer.
H. Public Campaign Financing - Instituting a fair and equitable method of public campaign financing reduces taxpayer burden. Here's how: It costs the country more now under the current system that forces candidates to raise exorbitant sums of money from corporate and private donors (read: elitists). The winner is then beholden to the group of financiers that paid for that victory which creates a corrupt system of paybacks (no-bid contracts) and legislation (energy bill subsidizing oil and gas; prescription drug bill favoring pharmaceutical companies) that raids our Treasury at an enormous cost to the taxpayer - the real owners of our country.
I. Direct Election of the President by popular vote(http://www.nationalpopularvote.com) . Get rid of the Electoral College.
J. Voting representation in congress for the citizens of the federal District of Columbia (which also gives them an Electoral College vote).
K. Recruit and encourage citizens to run for office as Independents because career politicians from the two major parties have provenand citizens are needed now to solve the complex issues of war, health care, environment, education, immigration, trade, net neutrality etc. which the current members of the two major parties are not willing to address. who only answer to campaign contributors.
XXXIII. Fair and Constitutional Immigration Legislation, Policies and Practices.
A. Demand that the Congress of the United States pass the recently introduced USA Family Act (HR 440). This bill when passed will:
1. Offer immigrants a clear road map to legal status in the United States.
2. Grants legal permanent residence to immigrants who have been living in the U.S. for five or more years
3. Offers conditional legal status and work authorization to all law-abiding immigrants living in the United States for less than five years.
4. Revokes current laws that bar certain people who live abroad from re-entering the U.S. for a period of three to 10 years, as well as portions of the law that place immigrants at risk of deportation for having committed minor, nonviolent offenses in the past.
B. The U.S. cannot continue with a system in which millions of workers and their families live in fear and are subject to economic exploitation. There is no place in our country for second-class status.
. Until this bill or equivalent is pass, the rights of all the people including immigrants must be protected and fair and constitutional policies and practices put in place for all its people including immigrants. These policies and practices should recognize that the U.S. is an immigrant nation and affirms that we are a nation of the people and for the people not just citizens. Constitutional and other rights apply equally to apply equally to all the people of the U. S. not just citizens.
