Solution to our country's problems:

Start with this:

1) Reform elections completely so corporations lose their voice, and only people vote. (Remember, it says, "WE THE PEOPLE" not "WE THE PEOPLE AND CORPORATIONS")

2) Lower the defense budget

3) Tax the mega-rich at pre-Reagan rates and lower the tax rates of the middle class slightly

4) Stop giving SS checks and Medicare to the mega-rich. Change these so they go only to those who are in need of it

5) Pass laws that make oil companies regulated utilities

6) Penalize any corporations that manufacture offshore and give benefits and royalties to those who move their manufacturing back here

7) Enforce anti-monopoly laws

Start there, then move on to the rest.

Take corporate money and lobbying out of politics. That would have
to be the number one priority in order to do the rest.

Everything else will fall into place once we fix that.

Corporations need to be rendered VOICELESS. They're not people, and they shouldn't be treated like people under the Constitution. That's not what our Constitution intended.

8) Impose tariffs on imports from countries that are known violate human rights and do not support worker rights
9) Impose a small tax on all stock trades <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h1068/text">H.R. 1068: Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street’s Bailout Act of 2009</a>.

I didn't think of those, and they're important.

number four. Means testing for systems that have been contributed to is not right. Perhaps make it a badge of honor to refuse those benefits one doesn't 'need'. I'd add one more crucial thing -- make all medical care universal, single-payer.