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Cancel Temporary Working Visas
While there is a lot of unemployed Highly Skill American workers please cancel the H1b and limit the L1 visas. This will also have an effect of encouraging students to take up engineering and Computer Science degrees. Invest in our own talent and we will get payback in Information Technology.
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Balancing the trade deficit
The Iraq War has cost us around $500 billion since it started in 2003. In that same time frame, our trade deficit with China has cost us over $1.1 trillion dollars, around twice the cost of the war. We cannot send over hundreds of billions of dollars a year to China and expect to have a healthy economy.
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Foreclosure auctions only for owner occupants
Many foreclosure auctions should be restricted to people that will live in the homes as the primary residence. To many homes are being sold to investors that rent the homes out, and do not care about the communities. Communities are turning into waste lanes of rental properties. People that want to own homes are out bid.
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Geothermal powered Data Centers (jobs, reduced emissions...)
Incentives / initiatives for building new data centers that reduce power emissions while providing jobs in geothermal production areas.
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Fix the voting machines
Diebold admits their machines loose votes, Princeton professor shows how easy it is to hack the machines, machines said to be made by companies owned by very GOP-friendly people, votes tabulated on the same machines that host the GOP campaign.
Who knows how much of this is true, but we shouldn't even have to wonder. No honest person, Republican or Democrat, should object to this:
Every voting machine must have a verifiable paper trail.
When the election result in Ukraine was 6 points off of the exit polls, it was regarded as evidence of fraud. Funny, we had just had…
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Policy change on subsidies for corporate farms
Shift the subsidies now given to corporate farms to emphasis on small farm operations. This would encourage these farmers to continue producing food rather that selling their land to subdividers.
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Lower mortgage interest rates for all existing mortgages
Obama should have the interest rates on all existing mortgages lowered which would put more money in taxpayers wallets, which in turn would create true stimulus.
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Update Federal Architecure Principles for 21st Century
How government manages information technology architecture has to be updated to the 21st century. The Federal government's Enterprise Architecture principles available here ...
need to be updated to reflect lower total cost of ownership and Obama's platform of a connected and transparent democracy.
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Over Population. How Can Obama Curb This Global Threat?
The greatest global threat is the human evolutionary propencity for procreation leading to over population, on a exponential growth pattern.
Humans are the protectors and replicating slaves via sex of DNA and, will forever resist birth control. Even at the cost of future catastrophe.6 votes -
The Fair Deal - Not that you'd ever seriously consider it
Our government is the best that money can buy, literally. So long as it's "Government for the special interests, by the special interests, with an emotional crying game to the voters" we will experience a failed state era in 20 years...not that you'll care. You'll be long gone from Washington by then and will therefore be blame less. Ditto everyone in Congress.
My Fair Deal plan is simple - Remove the influence of special interests, dump the status quo tax system, and let the citizens decide for themselves how they want to live.
1 - A regressive, flat income tax.…
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The bailout on main street: give each tax payer 500K
the dollars could go the pay off house mortgages, cars, credit cards thereby putting dollars back into circulation and keeping the ecomony strong.
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put america to work with a new high speed rail system
We should build a high speed rail system to connect all of our major cities. This will be a green alternative and put america back to work just like the (TVA) Tennesse Valley Authorizty did!! We should make all new construction have mandatory solar panels.
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Manditory High School courses on Money Management
As we step back and take a look at our failing economy we might ask ourselves "Why did this happen?" Many of our economic problems were due to credit companies granting credit/loans to people who have had bad credit and poor money management skill.
Instituting a mandatory money management class that would run the 10th thru 12th grade would teach students the value of having a good credit score and what to expect when they get their first credit card..
In order to graduate from high school students would need to demonstrate the ability to successfully manage a financial account.6 votes -
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illegal immigrants - send them home
Cutoff all benefits, enforce the borders, fine them for expenses like unpaid emergency health care, etc. They are not cost neutral and should not be given any benefit to stay in the US. Also eliminate the law that allows illegals to have children in the US who then become a US citizen. Also prohibit allowing relatives of illegals, and legal immigrants from being brought into the country and added to SSI which drains Social Security. Support the people who go through the legal immigration process, and provide NO support to those who break laws and sneak into the country, or…
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