Something interesting I found online

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Jeslek

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Highlighting those I find interesting in blue.

Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families
- Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.
- Unemployment insurance for all workers.
- Moratorium on farm foreclosures
- Labor law reform to remove barriers to workers who want to join a union.
- No privatization of Social Security. Increase benefits.
- Universal prescription drug coverage administered by Medicare. Universal health care system.
- Restore social safety net. Welfare reform that includes job training, supports and living wages.
- Full funding for equal, quality, bi-lingual public education. No vouchers.

Make Corporate Giants Pay
- Repeal tax cuts to the rich and corporations.
- Close corporate tax loopholes.
- Restitution to workers' pensions.
- Strong regulation of financial industry.
- Regulation and public ownership of utilities
- Prosecute corporate polluters. Public works program to clean our air, water and land
- Aid to cities and states. Federally funded infrastructure repair and social service programs

Foreign Policy for Peace and Justice
- No to war with Iraq
- End military interventions
- Repeal Fast Track and NAFTA, stop Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA). No secrecy.
- Save Salt II Agreements, reject Star Wars and Nuclear Posture Review
- Abolish nuclear weapons
- Cut military budget and fund human needs.

Defend Democracy and Civil Rights
- End racial profiling.
- Repeal the death penalty.
- Enforce civil rights laws and affirmative action.
- Repeal USA Patriot Act.
- Legalization and protection of immigrant's rights.
- Public financing of elections. Overall election law reform including Instant Runoff Voting.
- Youth and student bill of rights. Guarantee youth's right to earn, learn and live.


Those highlighted in blue has been implemented in Canada in one form or another, except the minimum wage part. Is this socialism? I think this is what a lot of people call socialism. I mean, it tries to improve the lives of everyone and end oppression by the rich people. Guess where it comes from?

Its actually funny. If you go to their homepage, they have a real vendetta against Bush and Ashcroft. :D I've never really read up on them, and I found this very interesting and thought I would share it.



Pulled from the Communist Party of the United States' website. Its their goals.[/siz]

Disclaimer: For informational purpose only. I won't discuss it. Its a cut and paste. I don't intend to start a flame war. Nor will I argue. For informational purpose only.[/siz]
 
The true irony, especially about socialism, is raising the minimum wage to $xx.xx per hour actually reduces the number of wage earners. So, the needs of the unemployed, under-employed, farm workers & working stiffs actually gets worse instaed of better. With less people earning a living, who exactly is goona pay for the unemployment insurance & social security benfits? Unlike Bubba, I happen to think that NAFTA has helped more than hurt the workforce. It's allowed decent paying jobs to go to Mexico which in turn, lowers the number of illegal immigrants (and their social ills). It has allowed more trade between the countries which hurts nobody. The jobs lost here will/have hurt initially but will be replaced by others & should lower the cost of many products. Why legalize & protect immigrant rights when they are already fully protected by the Constitution. It's the illigals that are the problem. Youth & students have no rights. Get a job, earn a living & you get rights you deserve & some you don't. :rofl:

Public financing of elections.
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I fully agree with this one. Not the rest of it though.

LL said:
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weenie :D
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I think we ought to kill social security. Right fucking now! Why not? I'm never going to
see a dime of it anyways.
 
social security is the biggest ponzi scheme ever....the sooner they kill it, the better.
 
The first thing that I noticed...

Meet the Needs of Working, Unemployed and Farm Families
- Raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour.
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Ok, I'm from a farming town and most people there typically make quite a bit less than that for farm work (I know, I've done it a few times). First, if that is enforced they will lose a bit of money and second, they would probably ignore it anyway.
 
They aren't gonna kill social security. The old are the biggest voting block to court. Nope, and they probably will manage to pass prescription drug coverage in the future too. Politicians will promise whatever they have to to get elected and stay elected, regardless of whether or not there are funds to do it. Now luckily, they rarely keep their promises. Unfortunately, I can really see them going after some of this prescription drug garbage as the baby boomers reach retirement, and the gerontocracy strenthens.

I can't see them ever doing away with SS, ponzi scheme or not. The bursting of the bubble market ends the hopes of a funded system. My senior thesis "back in the day" was on the merits of privatization versus pay as you go, and this was at the top of the bubble market, even before it burst, maybe even before the "irrational exuberance" speech, and still, it was difficult to justify. Now, its impossible probably, at least politically. Nope, SS is here to stay. I wish at the very least, they could stop with the COLA, so that at least over time our burden would fall. We will get benefits, but its just that they will be so small by the time we retire that we won't even notice them. Ok, maybe they might pay for a round of golf a month, at best, even assuming they TRY continue with COLA (simple because of demographics, and the shortfall in funds by that time). Ok, I'm exaggerating, but still, it will seem completely insignificant, at least relative to what we pay. I think we can expect a fairly large negative REAL RETURN on our "investment," there is no question about that!!! Of course, nominally, we MIGHT come out "ahead" if some politican wants to spin it that way.

mimum wage, yep, I concur, it goes without saying its the worst thing you could do. Maybe they would like German style unemployment rates!!! Sound wonderful :(
 
If everybody has an equal sum & they have to convince voters by their stance on issues instead of convincing contributors, making promises & having PACs it could be a more balanced election.
 
Gonz said:
If everybody has an equal sum & they have to convince voters by their stance on issues instead of convincing contributors, making promises & having PACs it could be a more balanced election.
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I wouldn't mind seeing that either. Keep the Corporations from buying their candidate. Might just get some politicians that actually have positions on the issues, rather than politicians that know how to knock the other guy down.
 
Gonz said:
If everybody has an equal sum & they have to convince voters by their stance on issues instead of convincing contributors, making promises & having PACs it could be a more balanced election.
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No, it will just give tax money to candidates who don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Why do you think the Communist Party is in favor of it? They want the money that would come to their candidates under such a system. They can't get the kind of funding that comes to more mainstream parties, so they want the government to give them money taken from the people by force.

The reason we get shitty candidates now isn't because of the system, it's because those are the kind of people Americans want. They want someone who is bland, non-controversial, non-ideological, etc...
 
non-ideological
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'nuff said.

There would be some major kinks to work out, without question, but I don't like the way the system is currently managed. There are some people out there that have grand ideas & no money to back them up. It's a popularity contest more than a leadership contest & that is in part beacuse of the PACs.
 
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