Reply #12: You've listed most of my top issues. [View All]

1. I not only want out of Iraq, I want a nation that will not engage in war as a tool of international or corporate policy. Ever.

2. Health care as a right: equal access to high quality health care for every single person. Single-payer, not-for-profit, to include mental health, dental, vision, wellness, and alternative, non-western disciplines.

3. No corporate person hood, a living wage, trade agreements based on labor and environmental standards. A WPA (or WGA!) type program to guarantee a job for every single person who wants one.

4. No factory farms, no gmo crops or livestock; sustainable agriculture, sustainable energy sources. A re-worked tax and deduction system. Instead of deductions for more dependents, the biggest deduction goes to the childless person, a decent deduction to the person with one child, a neutral (no deduction, no tax) status for people with 2 children, and an added tax for every child beyond two. Truly reducing the carbon footprint in the long term will take population reduction.

5. The end of privatization of all public services.

6. Fair elections -see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3915566&mesg_id=3915770

7. Some sort of fairness doctrine.

8. Education: no more NCLB, universal parent ed and pre-school through trade school or college, and the end of factory schools, with education restructured to support what we know about the way people really learn.

That's enough to start with!