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100% disabled veterans and spouse excempt property tax
The federal veterans administration has it written that the home must be in the name of the veteran. There are situations in second marriages where the home is in the spouse's name. These veteran's are not getting the property excemption in Florida. And the care-giving wife will not even get the excemption after the husband dies. This needs to be changed . Don't you think this is unfair.
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Protect privacy online, and across databases
Privacy means the right against unsanctioned invasion of privacy by the government, corporations or individuals, and should be protected with laws.
Personal details of any kind, including medical, financial, or political information should be accessed, communicated and traded with utmost discretion to avoid fraud and identity theft, government surveillance, and corporate exploitation.
As technology has advanced, the way in which privacy is protected and violated has changed with it. Generally the increased ability to gather and send information has had negative implications for retaining privacy.
This is the time to enhance existing privacy protections!
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy and read the…
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Build a nation-wide smart grid
Embed intelligence throughout a nation-wide electrical grid, on both sides of the meter to enhance the efficiency of distribution and use. This will (A) accelerate the penetration of sources like solar & wind that are diurnal or intermittent; (B) take advantage of smart meters and distributed storage as plug-in cars become available; (C) permit power to be wheeled from where resources are rich to where electricity is needed; (D) provide tens of thousands of jobs and train workers to replace the baby boomers who will retire from utilities over the next 5-10 years. Start with the government-owned Bonneville Power Administration…
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Provide an open forum to all government technical employees
Open the floor for all technical employees at all levels of government. Providing an open electronic forum can revolutionize the way technical problem solving and thinking is done at every level. It might also prevent costly mistakes or ineffective purchases.
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Start a "Green Collar Jobs" program
Connect the work that most needs doing (retrofitting our buildings with solar panels, insulation, etc.) with the people who most need work. Let's have the green energy revolution lift all boats--not create an energy apartheid! See http://www.vanjones.net/ for more.
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Allow the public to comment on all legislation
Allow at least a 5 day comment period where the public can comment on all legislation before it is signed into law.
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consult with the Ron Paul movement
consult with the Ron Paul movement
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Make election software application code public property
The mechanics of democracy should not be private. Elections should be completely transparent . The private sector should not be able to profit from proprietary vote counting systems. All vote counting software applications should be the property of the citizens of the United States of America. As such, they should be completely reviewable, testable, and transparent.
The Federal Government should coordinate with the states to migrate all election systems to publicly owned, standard platforms.
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information education
hahaha
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Carefully consider the future of Intellectual Property right
We're at the early stages of what appears to be a slow-motion upheaval of IP rights worldwide. What we're missing is a clear and consistent vision and set of policies in this space. Patents, copyright law, and many other aspects fit under this umbrella.
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No-fault insurance and workers' comp. insurance your doctor
I could not use my own doctors whom I treated with for eighter of these insurance coverage. Why becasue they harrassed, insult and challeged medical care needs or should I say don't approve them. As a result from a slip and fall I developed RSD due to lack of early requested treatment. I am suffering everyday now when this could have been prevented in the early stage of offset.
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Launch more X-Prize type contests
Spur innovation by putting a few million dollar prizes out there. You'll get a lot more than a million dollars of innovative work out of it.
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Remove Under God from pledge and In God We Trust from money
I would like the Pledge of Allegiance to be restored what it was before the words "Under God" were added. Also I would like the words "In God We Trust" removed from the currency.
Our government is supposed to be secular and having these words on our money and in our pledge is unconstitutional and a blatant violation of state and church separation.19 votes -
Make all non-classified taxpayer-funded software open source
All software created by or for the government should become open source, a shared resource, since it was paid for by taxpayer money. As should data and literature. Even better would be to use and improve existing open source software.
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National Science Standards for Schools
Almost every developed country on this planet has adopted national science standards for their public education system. These standards are typically set by a group of scientists and educators to avoid the politicized process that takes place in many states (for example in Texas these days). The United States has fallen behind in our science literacy and we need to promote better science in our education system.
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Public online bidding process for government projects
Create a website where large and small government projects are opened to bidding from private companies, organizations, and individuals.
Make some information about the bids public so that interested parties can assist in ensuring that jobs are only awarded to those who are qualified and ready to fullfill them.
Streamline the process to make it possible for government to farm out micro-tasks.
Make it possible for citizens to volunteer in the service of important government work, either by donating labor or serving as advisors.
Create a tagging structure to make the site searchable. Publish listings using RSS and allow users…
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rely on open standards, open devices, OS where possible
We need to multipurpose devices, networks, spectrum whenever and wherever possible. Government procurement can lead the way by demanding openness for procurements that involve large numbers of machines. For example, transponders in cars; smart meters in homes; huge laptop or cellphone purchases; and networks that really could give excess capacity to abuttors while preserving priority for emergency services.
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Restore DARPA to its former glory and autonomy
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the research and development arm of the Defence Department. They were a key player in the development of the Internet--now they are making robots that will run up caves. We are starving for fundamental research.
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Create/support a national IPv6 wired/wireless Internet
Connected services are to the 21st Century (and beyond) what the telephone was to the 20th century. A national CTO should support and enable the creation of a wired/wireless IPv6 wired and wireless Internet that blankets the entire country, so that everyone, rich and poor, young and old, urban and rural, has equal and affordable access to this system. It should be a public utility, like the electrical and water systems.
511 votes