What is the single MOST important issue for President elect?

Nimrod2005

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Wed Dec-07-05 09:52 AM
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Poll question: What is the single MOST important issue for President elect?

Edited on Wed Dec-07-05 09:54 AM by Nimrod2005

We need to restore our image in the world, heal all divisions within our country, lower deficits, Health care...etc.

What should be item # 1 on the new President's agenda?

Mine is universal healthcare, need to be law by Feb 1, 2009!!!

Please don't say leave Iraq. We may not be there in 2008.

Feel free to comment.

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Wed Dec-07-05 09:58 AM
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1. too many good choices

I think that the next President needs to reverse the inhumane tax breaks for the wealthy, restructure trade agreements, and work on universal health care based on wellness with room for integrative medicine (the philosophy is to use vitamins, diet, herbs, etc, first before resorting to drugs)--but freeing ourselves from Big Oil should take top priority.

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Sparkman

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:02 AM
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2. REBUILD CREDIBILITY & TRUST IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

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w13rd0

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:10 AM
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4. You can't do that through just a PR push...

...you have to accomplish it by DOING something with results the people can see and hear and feel.

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w13rd0

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:09 AM
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3. I think the United States needs to launch...

...an Apollo-style program in regards to alternative energy (and subsequently and tangentially, in regards to scientific advancement). It would be wise for the economy, our continuity and solvency as a democratic nation, and our national security. And it's a concrete goal that would "wrap" so many other important issues. Government sector contracts and employment would insure more. Education would have to be bolstered, from K to 16+. Infrastructure would be revitalized. Many predatory corporations would have their means of exploitation decimated.

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Nimrod2005

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:23 AM
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6. Reading the Wold is Flat? are you? I agree BTW...

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Sparkman

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Wed Dec-07-05 05:24 PM
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10. For a fraction of the military budget, $500Billion, we could implement ...

existing technical advances and FLOOD the energy market with solar, wind, tidal, bio-fuel etc.
The will is all that is required. And deflecting the petro-dollar lobby efforts is a first stumbling block. Talk it up at every rally and in every Democratic campaign platform, and we'll get off the mid-east addiction in no time. Celebrate Life, knowledge and common sense solutions.

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Zynx

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:15 AM
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5. It's time we did something about our wretched healthcare system.

Nothing is more important than the health and wellbeing of our citizens in terms of domestic issues and we are lacking as a country in this area.

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Nimrod2005

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:24 AM
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7. My choice as well...I would love to see HMOs out of business, all

of them GONE....Medicare works very well, and it is cheaper to administer BY OUR GOVERNMENT!!! Just roll it out to everyone.

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AmericanDream

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Wed Dec-07-05 10:29 AM
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8. You won't have money to do anything until you reverse the tax cuts...

I think the next President will have to do ALL of the things you mentioned to get the country back on track. But to do that, he'll need a budget that allows him to implement such costly policies such as healthcare reform and alternate energy resource buidups. So, the first thing to do is to remove the tax cuts for the wealthy in order to channel the tax money to the aforementioned causes that will serve our national community, and not just the top 1%.

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stray cat

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Wed Dec-07-05 11:32 AM
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9. Integrity and competence over any one issue

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Nimrod2005

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Thu Dec-08-05 04:45 PM
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11. Please vote here...If you haven't already

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Totally Committed

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Thu Dec-08-05 04:53 PM
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12. ALL OF THE ABOVE. (n/t)

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