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Restoration of habeas corpus and all other rights
guaranteed under the Constitution.
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Unlimited single payer health and dental care for every
citizen, including a national plan to insure adequate
numbers of health care providers to handle the needs of
new entrants coming onto the roles of the insured, so that
health providers could do their jobs in an honorable and
professional manner.
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Unlimited, secure, safe from government deceit, high speed internet
service for every
citizen.
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Unlimited access to clean water for personal use.
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Unlimited access to clean air for every citizen in
every neighborhood.
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Universal Declaration
of Human Rights (UDHR) ratified by the Senate, and a
national plan to align all institutions with the goals
stated therein.
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Publicly funded elections.
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Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) for the elections of all
elected officials.
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Reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act.
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Affordable higher education for all who are qualified to
attend.
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No further funding of basic schools through real estate taxation.
i.e., every student is entitled to the best primary
education we can envision regardless of any student’s
financial resources or the value of the real estate where
he or she lives.
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Clear recognition that corporations are not people and do
not have the rights of citizens.
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Strict adherence to the separation of church and state at
all government institutions, especially the military.
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Strict adherence to the separation of business and
government institutions.
Government answers to and serves all The People,
not just the wealthiest among them and their institutions.
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National program for rebuilding our transportation systems
and other aspects of our social infrastructure.
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National program for reaching energy sufficiency and
sustainability in time to reverse global warming and the
destruction it could otherwise inflict on humanity.
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Social Security taxation at all levels of income earned to insure
the indefinite sustainability of Social Security Benefits.
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Income safety net for the unemployed, needy, and disabled
at similar levels achieved by other advanced societies.
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Return to legitimate rules for calculating the
Consumer Price Index to insure fair cost of living
increases of promised government benefits.
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Elimination of negotiated pleading of criminal offenses.
i.e., no one has the right to offer someone accused of a
criminal offense the right to plead to a lesser crime than
he is accused of committing.
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A transparent, responsible, trustworthy government that adheres to the rule of law.
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Peaceful coexistence with the peoples of other countries
who would have no reason to hate us.
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A national commitment to seek and ask forgiveness, and
make amends, for the crimes our government has inflicted
on other peoples in our name.
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But of course that would be mean we would all first have
to be a nation of honorable people who are educated and
committed to peace, justice, and kindness and compassion
for one another... for how
else would we ever know how to form a government comprised
of people who would honor their commitment to us and our
posterity.