What's your list of 25 of Dennis Kucinich's most important policies?

[MMT]

My list would include
1. Stabilizing Iraq under UN moderation
2. Universal non-profit healthcare
3. Regaining control over US trade policies (by pulling out of NAFTA and the WTO)
4. Creating jobs for all
5. Treating marijuana like alcohol
6. Redefining drug abuse as a medical problem

I won't go on, because I want to see what other people would say.
Top twenty-five policies.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. At the top of my list

is the creation of the Department of Peace. This shows a whole new focus for the world.

I agree about NAFTA, jobs creation, and the dismantling of the stranglehold of insurance/drug companies via a single payer health insurance program. Also the decriminalization of marijuana and correctly defining drug abuse as a medical problem.

Dennis's ideas are great, and I hope that more people start listening to them.

[Smirnoff]

2. Just a few

- Not drilling in the Arctic
- Not trying to outlaw abortion
- Gun laws
- Abolishing DADT
- Legalize gay marriage
:beer:

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. only 25?!

I like that he is open to election reform. His stand on the war. His stand on FAIR trade and fair wages. His stand on cutting the pork out of the defense budget and putting it into health and education. His stand on taxes. His stand on civil linerties, worker's rights, children's rights, the environment.

Oh, let's face it. I love just about everything the guy does and thinks. ;^)

[MMT]

5. I know, I love just about everything he stands for too :-)

But I want to get the top 25 because that's about all I have room for.

Where are the usual suspects? I thought abuncha people would have responded by now.

[pop goes the weasel]

4. support for real small business

Kucinich's platform, in general, puts control in the hands of the people, rather than in the hands of large corporations. The most important policies he has for doing this, I believe, are

1. Repeal of NAFTA and WTO, with replacement by bilateral treaties emphasizing labor and environmental protections.

2. Universal single payer health care. (Go into any mom-and-pop shop, and ask them about health care. They don't have any, and don't have a chance of getting any.)

3. Supporting independent businesses, producers and local packers against the monopolies.

4. Increasing OSHA enforcement.

5. Funding development of national infrastructure., urban and rural.

6. Progressive-schedule income taxation.

[sacman]

11. osha

osha---wasn't that from nixion

[cosmicdot]

6. well, my teeth and me certainly can't wait for a phased-in/para-corporate

corporate anything, medical system ... so, I totally support Dennis and his plans for health care ... plus, I'm not getting any younger ... the time is now! The means and resources are available. All we need is the right leadership ... and, that is Dennis Kucinich.

since it's difficult to rank what needs to put (just about everything) on line one, next to #1



... I'll just mention another of Dennis's ideas ... I don't even know if any of the other candidates are even thinking outside the Jack in the Box mindset:

Local Food Systems

"A Kucinich Administration will shift USDA funding and focus away from the promotion of concentrated intensive and industrial agribusiness. The new focus will benefit family farmers, rural communities, the environment, and consumers, with policies crafted to enable farmers to earn a fair price and to provide safe, nutritious food to all people. A Kucinich Administration will increase funding for regional food processing facilities, marketing assistance, farm-to-school programs, on-farm renewable energy, and the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. Agricultural research and development institutions will be given funding priority to help family farmers make a transition to profitable and sustainable agriculture."

The way I understand the idea is to encourage more local/regional food markets ... which would have side-effects like reducing the shipping of foods over long distances (which, of course, reduces uses of fuel, etc.); and, reduces the control of the mega-agri-corporate business ... to improve the quality of food, etc.

This, at a minimum, tells me Dennis has a vision for improving our future and our lives and our standard of living.

[LWolf]

7. 1. Dept. of Peace.

2. Universal Health Care

3. UN in/US out

4. Protection of all civil liberties

The rest of these are not in order of preference; just in the order I thought of them!

5. Free prekindergarten - college with support for before and after school programs as well.

6. Worker's rights

7. Fair Trade

8. Control to the people, not the corporations

9. Strong support for alternative, renewable energy

10. Support for Organic farms

11. Support for family farms.

12. Regulation/control of GMOs

13. Complete protection of public lands

14. Clean air and water

15. Abolish death penalty

16. Require paper trails etc. for electronic voting

17. cut pentagon budget; spend money where it enriches the citizenry

18. treatment, not incarceration, for drug users

19. Strong supporter of the arts

20. Protection of social security

21. Support for US veterans

22. Kyoto treaty

23. Complimentary alternative medicine

24. Complete elimination of nuclear weapons from the earth

25. Opposes vouchers

I could go on; this is just the first 25 to pop into my head!

[MMT]

8. Thank you, LWolf!

Now if only others will follow your lead! :)

[LWolf]

9. You're welcome!

Any one of those 25 things could make a long, interesting thread on it's own.

Dennis owns the issues, lock stock and barrel if you want to advance human rights and the quality of life.

[sacman]

12. truth be told

if all his plan's go thru--good as they are who pay's for them??????? tax's will have to go up..

[eridani]

13. No, not if the Pentagon budget is cut

No other candidate will look at the elephant in the livingroom.

[DenverDem]

14. If you have a fair tax plan

then taxes will not go up for the vast majority of The People.

Since corporations and the very rich do not pay their share of taxes we are undercollecting massively right now.

If cronyistic graft were eliminated, a huge percentage of our tax money would be returned to benefit The People.

Common civic benefit is not a bad thing, and to have highways and running water, not to mention a compassionate, sustainable and functional country, we all should be proud to contribute to the common good. That's real patriotism, not the shallow, self serving, jingoistic, demagoguery that masquerades for patriotism these days.

[wal]

16. Kerry / Kucinich in '04

LWolf

Great post - I can't be more in agreement with Dennis' stand.

On another matter, do you know Octafish? I've tried to contact him through Skinner, but no luck. I think the time lag between America and Australia is putting us out of synch. Any help gratefully acknowledged
Thanx

[revcarol]

10. Repealing most of the Taft-Hartley Act

and giving workers real rights!!

sorry, gotta go HOUSE TO HOUSE for Dennis.Ordinary people count, for Dennis.

[cosmicdot]

15. kick for caucuses