Any "stealthy" issues for the 2004 general election?

[phillybri]

Really underrated issues that don't get a whole lot of press from the media whores but could have a decent effect....

I was at a meeting where a gentleman brought up Title 9 as well as school construction.

You guys have any good issues that are flying under the radar but could cause a stir?

[Kolesar]

1. We absolutely have the environmental issues

Bush has been dead wrong and largely against public opinion with most of them. From arsenic in the drinking water to oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, Bush is vulnerable.

[chadm]

11. As a Green...

I would add that environmental issues only go so far. The people who really care are already aware. Then again, these people probably don't trust the Dems either...so I guess you're right.

[chadm]

2. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act

Which doesn't permit new Unions from being formed in this country. Kind of interesting how nobody brought that up during the last Dem debate...would have been kind of interesting to the Union members present.

Workers aren't even on a level playing field anymore. Want to start an IT Union? By law you can't. Don't think the AFL-CIO is doing their job? Tuff luck.

This is an important Green issue that the Dems ignore.

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

13. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act

you got that right! Unionization would really help our economy right now.

[chadm]

3. Eliminate Corporate Campaign Contributions

Fund elections with public money to help ensure that candidates are serving the people.

Corporations shouldn't mind, right? They get to keep more of their money and they'll be competing on a level, free-market driven playing field. Unless...of course, the money they are donating leads to favoritism...which is sort of a circular argument back to the original point.

I hope you detected a little bit of sarcasm here.

[chadm]

4. Repeal Corporate Personhood

Helping to ensure that corporations are only able to act to the extent that they are allowed to by society. Giving corporations equal rights to free speach, etc. is like an elephant stomping around a chicken coop.

[shimmergal]

8. Good idea! Wonderful image.

We might also point out that most states have a provision that corporations exist to "promote the general welfare" or some similar purpose.

And show some corporate logos and mindf***-speak and ask "Does this look like a person to _you_?"

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

14. Why should Enron have any rights?

As a matter of fact, how come Ken Lay isn't in jail. (Ken who?)

:)

[chadm]

5. Increase funding for nanotechnology

We're talking about a technology that has the potential, even within as little as 10 years, to:

- Eliminate scarcity
- Eliminate pollution
- Eliminate reliance on non-renewable resources

If you aren't up-to-speed on this, Google it now.

OK, seriously, I know this won't help win an election...but still. Also, unless the technology is in the public domain it will be worthless...only allowing corporations to do even more with even less while the people see no benefit.

[poskonig]

6. White collar job loss (jobs moving offshore)

We will peel off a lot of GOP voters on this issue.

[chadm]

10. Good idea

How would you plan to fight this?

[chadm]

7. More Funding for Business Startups

That would be one excellent way to grow the economy...provide more grants to small business.

[chadm]

9. Reduce military waste to pay for all of above

You have to demonstrate what the world would look like if we could just divert X percent of wastefull and distructive military spending to causes that benefit the people.

I could go on with more issues, but I won't bore you guys.

[PATRICK]

12. the "one thing leads to another"

Like opposing the issue of privatising military support so much that the military is left hanging in the desert wind. This leads to a lot of why questions, the absurd lenghts that conservative business policy has gone in sectors where it causes only dmage, also to the relevancy of the whole corporate mindframe to government per se. The abortion issue sneaks even back to George's own shady past. ALL women issues are under sattack. Any linkage there from one to the other then the other could solidify the women's anti-Bush vote.

Families of victims and the Iraqi Ocupation forces deserve answers and action. Of course, we know where that leads and the GOP sits on them tightly as possible.

Bring them out front to the media in place of the wavy cloths and bands where the victims are as invisible as the truth, the people concerned and victimized as silenced as the national forum.

[indigo32]

15. Renewable energy

I know this is part of several of the candidates platforms... but we should be pushing this.

I agree with Taft-Hartley as well.

[sangha]

16. Veteran's Benefits

and how Bush* and the Repukes have been cutting those benefits