- Support fair trade agreements (not free trade agreements)
- Get out of the WTO, CAFTA and NAFTA
- Eliminate the U.S. trade deficit
- Stop outsourcing American jobs and technology
- End tax breaks that reward companies for shipping jobs overseas
- Put in place a national manufacturing strategy
- Encourage the purchase of AMERICAN MADE goods
- Rebuild and redesign our crumbling national infrastructure
- Keep vital American infrastructure in the hands of American companies
- Invest in research and development
- Secure our ports and borders
- Pass real financial reform (bring back glass-steagall act without the provisions that strengthened the federal reserve)
- End "too big to fail"
- No more wall street bailouts
- Immediately audit the federal reserve and transition to end the federal reserve
- Eliminate our national debt
- Balance federal, state and local budgets and end wasteful pork spending
- End corporate special interest / lobbyist influence over elections and the legislative process.
- Create a fiscally sustainable health care system that dramatically cuts health care costs providing for greater access for legal citizens.
- Repeal the ACA (Affordable Care Act -Obamacare)
- Eliminate private and government health insurance
- Legalize the use of industrial hemp to boost the agriculture and industrial sectors
- Fight employer hiring policies that discriminate against the long term unemployed
- Get the unemployed back to work (including the long term unemployed - 99ers)
- Protect the family farmer, end subsidies to corporate farms, eliminate factory farms
-Protect small business owners
-Increase veteran benefits (health, job Training, education)
- Make higher education more affordable
- Use our great military only when it is in our national interest
- Secure the homeland and stop actual terrorist threats
- Give local law enforcement and fire companies the funds they need for security and emergency prevention & response
- Seek U.S. energy INDEPENDENCE through clean, renewable domestic sources (solar, wind, hydro, geo-thermal, etc.)
- Freeze all fracking until further testing is completed, safer extraction methods are created and all chemicals in the fracking process are disclosed and tested.
- Require all oil / gas companies to contribute to a special emergency / spill / cleanup fund before any drilling is approved
- Require comprehensive environmental impact accessments before any drilling for oil or natural gas is approved
- Require that any oil or natural gas extracted in the United States be used (consumed) domestically in the United States
- Promote organic agriculture and a safe food supply
- Ban all GMO's, steroids, antibiotics from agricultural products (livestock, crops)
- Until a GMO ban, require that foods containing GMO's, steroids, preservatives, and antibiotics be labeled on the package.
-Require all food/crops/fruit grown with pesticides, herbicides, weed killer, etc. be labeled.
-Require nation of origin be labeled on all food products.
- STOP the neo-conservative hijacking of U.S. foreign policy.
- Support involved foreign policy but oppose isolationist and interventionist foreign policy
- More common sense neutral stance on israeli/palestinian conflict
- Seek a stable and sustainable U.S. population
- Enforce illegal immigration laws by punishing EMPLOYERS who hire illegal workers.
- Common sense H1B and L1 foreign work visa limits to protect jobs in technology and other sectors for Americans
- Limit incentives that encourage unsustainable population growth from the influx of illegal foreign nationals
- Protect the environment (clean water, air, land) and preserve and expand national parks and wildlife preserves
- Support the separation between church and state
- Preserve social security
- Fund education, reform education (all students in all neighborhoods deserve a quality education)
-Return physical education and history classes to our schools
- Make personal finance a required class before leaving high school
- Keep America safe, but don't infringe on individual rights
- STOP the dangerous provisions of the patriot act
- End indefinite detention
- End targeted assassinations of U.S. citizens domestically and overseas
- Keep government out of our bedrooms, libraries and phone/web conversations
- Oppose domestic drone use by local & state police, along with all federal agencies
- Reform our intelligence agencies, end bulk surveillance, bring accountability and more transparency to the agencies.
- Fully support the right to bear arms
- Harsher penalties for gun and weapons crimes
- Work to remedy inequalities so we can begin phasing out affirmative action programs- instead we will use true empowerment programs for all citizens.
- Create a sensible tax policy with a simplified tax code
- Cut taxes through cutting spending - but, no tax cuts during wartime (we all must sacrifice) and No tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy
- Oppose any attempts to amend U.S. constitution to ban gay marriage
- Support an individuals right to same sex marriage
- Support gay rights in anti-discrimination laws such as equal housing laws
- Oppose anti-choice legislation (doesn't mean we are pro-abortion), this includes both abortion and end of life issues i.e, assisted suicide
- Protect homeowners from corporate land stealing (Eminent Domain)
- Support individuals right to the use medical marijuana
- Harsher punishment for animal cruelty
- Creation of animal abuser registry
- Ban animal research such as for the development of foods, cosmetics and other products
-Fund alternative research (cruelty-free/non-animal research)
- Ban Horse slaughter in the United States and ban the transfer of horses across state lines or internationally for the purpose of meat consumption
-Ban puppy mills
-Ban the use of pig gestation crates
-Ban piercings and tattooing of pets
- Post all proposed congressional legislation on the internet for atleast 10 days prior to a vote to allow public viewing and input.
- Support Fair ballot access for independents and third party candidates
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