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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:47 PM
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Poll question: Once this whole healthcare reform deal is over, what should DUers focus on next?
Other than the 2010 midterms, that is. I have faith in our ability to multitask, even if the reform debate is testing that premise.
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TxRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:48 PM
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1. SSI and the deficit
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endless october Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:57 PM
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13. bringing jobs back. n/t
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:48 PM
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2. Working to "improve" the limp-dicked "reform" likely to pass.
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hamsterjill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:49 PM
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3. End the wars
And use that money to help with the other items mentioned.
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:50 PM
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4. Healthcare, since when the "deal is over" it either won't have passed or it will be a sham.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:55 PM
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10. Well, it won't exactly be "over" at that point...
...but I see what you're getting at. I draw the line at a strong public option, the ability to choose my own doctor, portable coverage, and the elimination of the use of pre-existing conditions to deny or withhold coverage. If we don't get all of the preceeding, we still have work to do.
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:50 PM
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5. Restoring the Glass-Steagall act!
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:54 PM
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9. +1
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:08 PM
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19. Yes, among restoring most of the New Deal protections
and a few they didn't think of, like tying executive pay to a multiple of the lowest paid person in the company.
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KhartoumCharacter Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:52 PM
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33. The fear
that someone, somewhere might be free, is petrifying. Can't allow the actual stakeholders of a company deciding how their own money is to be spent on their company.

Freedom: baaad.
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KhartoumCharacter Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:42 PM
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31. If you are a fan of shams without the wow
Because a protectionist backroom deal originally hatched by the Morgans and the Rockefellers so they would have monopolies on their respecive banking territories is SUCH A GREAT IDEA.

No other country has a "Glass-Steagall" and they didn't have any problems worse than ours. In fact, many were spared the worst. Canada doesn't have G-S, never did. During the depression, in fact, it was the countries that did NOT have G-S that recovered faster.

Read up on the history of the act. It was a deal reached by the Morgans and the Rockefellers to keep the other out of their banking territory.

Read if you dare.

http://www.qjae.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae1_1_1.pdf
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/09/glass-steagall.html
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stuball111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:52 PM
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6. End wars..
existing and future... spend the money at home...it will fund all the others... then go after Cheney Heh heh!
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:18 PM
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24. Gonna need a new president then. This one likes him some wars.
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stuball111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:32 PM
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28. Pretty hard to back up that train...
I think he would like to, but bush got him into a tough spot. The fact is that it's still all about oil. We never hear that. Afghanistan was always about an oil pipeline to deliver Iraqi oil, yet that is never mentioned in the media. bin laden and democracy was just a ruse to get the country riled up patriotically, hell, I even fell for it slightly after 911, but soon saw the truth. Time will tell if he's seriously against it, although you might be right, I don't see much movement what with troop increases and all.:shrug:
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:53 PM
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7. Regulation of Wall Street and repealing Gramm-Lehey
Which is what SHOULD have happened before TARP.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:54 PM
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8. I'd like to see the FCC completely re-vamped and Rush off
the military radio station to our troops...
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:57 PM
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11. Folks, we gotta work on energy. We're not going anywhere as a nation until we do.
Withdrawal from Iraq is popular so it will proceed. Let's use our time, attention and resources to upgrading our energy supply. I read recently that Germany now how 50% of the market for solar energy technology! They and other countries are stealing the march on us.

Much as I'd like to see Bush and Cheney and all their rotten henchmen behind bars, we simply must go forward and do the job at hand. We all know that history will judge them harshly. Why spend time and effort on it when our very standard of living is slipping every day?
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Nite Owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:57 PM
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12. Other...
clean elections, end the corporate cash. It's what got is in this mess and why congress doesn't give a damn about what the people really want. (Not all of them but enough)
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dhpgetsit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 02:58 PM
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14. 2 things top my list.
Election reform (publicly funded only, paber ballots only).

Ban all corporate political activities (campaign ads, PACs, etc.)
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:06 PM
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16. Mine too.
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NRaleighLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:02 PM
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15. Education! We are falling behind in so many areas. Even though I could pick several
on the list that stir my passions (persecuting Bush/Cheney, for example), if we end up with a dumbed down population (or more dumbed down than we already are), our future as a creative, progressive nation will be severely hampered.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:06 PM
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17. Campaign finance and election reform. Without this key reform, everything
else will not be taken care of in a matter that is constructive. We have to get the corporate whores and religious nuts out of our government.
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Bonn1997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:03 PM
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37. Agree 100%
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:07 PM
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18. Emigration to somewhere that still has health care.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:09 PM
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20. EFCA. And the manufacturing jobs thing.
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Kansas Wyatt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:09 PM
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21. Health Care
Because they are only going to offer Token Effort Chump Change to the People, while the Insurance, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Industries will be given the keys to the U.S. Treasury.
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Liberal_Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:10 PM
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22. We Must End "Corporate Personhood" Once And For All
That should be our #1 priority.
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KhartoumCharacter Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:58 PM
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36. What about Union Personhood?
Ok, so if one person has freedom of speech, as soon as they get together in a group, they should not? Tell me how much sense this makes. Why should a corporation not enjoy all the same protections as the individuals that make it up?

And are you willing to apply this fairly to all organizations? Will this apply to unions? Non-profits? Think tanks? All a corporation is is an organization that pools resources and minimizes risks to individual members.
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tosh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:15 PM
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So many crises, so little time. nt.
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SPedigrees Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:15 PM
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23. Other. IF actual, real reform is passed, I'll be too busy celebrating
to focus on anything.
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timeforpeace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:20 PM
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25. Stop posting here, get a job, and join the real world!
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:03 PM
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38. That wasn't helpful...
For one thing, you're posting here, too, so what point are you trying to make?
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Wwagsthedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:28 PM
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26. End all wars! nt
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:31 PM
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27. How?
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Ineeda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:39 PM
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29. Everything said above plus DADT and DOMA. n/t
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:41 PM
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30. Healthcare: repealing mandates in the broken system or implementing Medicare for All
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jmodden Donating Member (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:45 PM
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32. Gun Control
and sequestration before the thugs stage a coup. After that nothing will matter.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:07 PM
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-24-09 08:24 AM
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44. Bill Clinton himself blamed gun control for the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress
Edited on Thu Sep-24-09 08:25 AM by derby378
Not a big fan of the idea, myself. What we need is a way to get everyone calmed down and focused on an initiative that everyone agrees will make America better for ourselves and our children.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:56 PM
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34. Legalize Gay Marriage Across the USA
Human rights are Human Rights
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Fire1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 03:56 PM
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35. EFCA!!!! n/t
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TheKentuckian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:12 PM
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40. Energy and regulating the robber barons are both beyond crucial
I'd think that SS and Medicaid could be buttressed by some simple adjustments. Remove/adjust the income caps and up the contribution by a point or so and both should be in fat city, especially with so many being forced to keep working for longer than expected which will cut into the time they spend on the entitlements at least at full benefit.
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DailyGrind51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:25 PM
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41. Replacing "blue dogs" with Progressives!
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KhartoumCharacter Donating Member (24 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:30 PM
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42. uh
Why don't we replace you with a potted plant? I'm a blue dog. Progressives have no grasp of reality.
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Greyhound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 04:55 PM
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43. Other; Fixing the mess that insurance "reform" is going to make. n/t
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