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Posted by
Kew Gardens Teleport
on Tue Oct 4 04:38:33 2011, in response to Re: Wall Street ''occupiers'' even dumber than first thought, posted by SMAZ on Mon Oct 3 21:19:28 2011.
edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Which eight? I support just four:
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now. [This I hold to be fundamental to growth. It's how they've been doing it in East Asia.]
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live. [No surprise there. Migration is fundamentally a good thing, at least within the Western world.]
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system. [I don't think this is a big deal, but anything that stops all the varieties of silliness from hanging chads to voter registration fights can only be a good thing.]
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies. [They make banks substitute rumor and defamation for proper risk assessment. At best, they're a harmless shortcut; at worst, they cause financial panics. But it would be easiest to outlaw them on data protection grounds.]
One I hold to be unnecessary, but not particularly bad:
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment. [Of course, it would be subject to abuse; this is why I oppose this one. I'd much rather see amendments for DC voting rights, abolition of the Electoral College, and a presidential line item veto.]
A further four, I agree with at least part of the ends, but not the means:
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
The remaining four look like an unmitigated recipe for economic disaster:
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the "Books." World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the "Books." And I don't mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
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