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[ USA Election 2000 ] [ By Eric Chaet ]
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USA ELECTION 2000
(c) 2000 by Eric Chaet
If I thought I had a chance, and were running for (USA) national office,
November, 2000, the following would be my platform:
1. Revise the tax and subsidy system's perverse incentives:
-> more justice (for each CITIZEN, not this or that GROUP whose votes
can be conveniently courted with promises of money for this or that
advantage)
-> alternative energies, less pollution
-> REAL education (not test scores, not even necessarily schools,
certainly not compulsory for youths) non-required but available
(at any age, like public library):
- basic skills: reading, writing, computing
- basic knowledge base: natural laws, especially physical development,
plus the rudiments of commerce - at least enough to avoid being
outrageously taken advantage of
- insightful history of humanity (context): religion and philosophy
(if this proves a sticking point, preventing all the other good
reform, leave it out, like now);
- introducing technologies of agriculture and other industries,
commerce and professions (necessarily sketchy, but presented so that
everyone KNOWS that it's sketchy, with a procedure for following up);
- basic principles of ecology
- non-core: foreign languages, electro-mechanical-electronic principles
and techniques, arts, particular science techniques (e.g., use of
microscope, calculus)
-> health, not "health care," certainly not insurance, insuring access to
a crazy system of frantically treating this or that symptom
2. Apply the obligations of citizenship to corporations, holding
particular executives accountable for what they do, in the name of
shareholders or not
3. Stop arousing enemies world-wide by insisting on USA's right to the
lion's share of everything USA-based corporations and USA consumers
value, and by supporting unjust regimes who cooperate with USA's
insistence on that lion's share, mainly by obsequious and lucrative
cooperation with corporations based in USA
4. Get people out of jail whose "crimes" had no victims
5. Tho it would no doubt be abused by many, legalize marijuana, i.e., end
Prohibition thereof. What to do about cocaine and heroin, I don't know.
But the CRIME should be, if you rob or otherwise injure someone, in
order to get your drug. So the law doesn't have to be against
possession, or even delivery - only against what you do to injure
others, whether you are on drugs or not, or trying to get money for
drugs or not. Then, it would be necessary to enforce laws, no
favoritism. Corruption of the law would then become the worst crime.
Probably you have some ideas to add? I'd be glad to hear them.
Email me, please:
[email protected].
Permission is hereby granted to one and all to copy and distribute the
above, provided there is no editing and the copyright notice is included.
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