FIVE THINGS WE DEMAND THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS DO IMMEDIATELY:
1. Declare a moratorium on all home evictions. Not one more family should be thrown out of their home. The banks must adjust their monthly mortgage payments to be in line with what people's homes are now truly worth -- and what they can afford. Also, it must be stated by law: If you lose your job, you cannot be tossed out of your home.
2. Congress must join the civilized world and expand Medicare For All Americans. A single, nonprofit source must run a universal health care system that covers everyone. Medical bills are now the #1 cause of bankruptcies and evictions in this country. Medicare For All will end this misery. The bill to make this happen is called H.R. 3200. You must call AND write your members of Congress and demand its passage, no compromises allowed.
3. Demand publicly-funded elections and a prohibition on elected officials leaving office and becoming lobbyists. Yes, those very members of Congress who solicit and receive millions of dollars from wealthy interests must vote to remove ALL money from our electoral and legislative process. Tell your members of Congress they must support campaign finance bill H.R.1826.
4. Each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like they have in North Dakota. Then congress MUST reinstate all the strict pre-Reagan regulations on all commercial banks, investment firms, insurance companies -- and all the other industries that have been savaged by deregulation: Airlines, the food industry, pharmaceutical companies -- you name it. If a company's primary motive to exist is to make a profit, then it needs a set of stringent rules to live by -- and the first rule is "Do no harm." The second rule: The question must always be asked -- "Is this for the common good?" (Click here for some info about the state-owned Bank of North Dakota.)
5. Save this fragile planet and declare that all the energy resources above and beneath the ground are owned collectively by all of us. Just like they do it in Sarah Palin's socialist Alaska. We only have a few decades of oil left. The public must be the owners and landlords of the natural resources and energy that exists within our borders or we will descend further into corporate anarchy. And when it comes to burning fossil fuels to transport ourselves, we must cease using the internal combustion engine and instruct our auto/transportation companies to rehire our skilled workforce and build mass transit (clean buses, light rail, subways, bullet trains, etc.) and new cars that don't contribute to climate change. (For more on this, here's a proposal I wrote in December.) Demand that General Motors' de facto chairman, Barack Obama, issue a JFK man-on-the-moon-style challenge to turn our country into a nation of trains and buses and subways. For Pete's sake, people, we were the ones who invented (or perfected) these damn things in the first place!!
~ Michael Moore
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Comments: 48
Stopping the evictions for mortgage holders is a good idea, it is not helping anyone, to have so many empty houses. Lenders who did not make the wacko loans, are not interested in reworking loans, even when the value of the loan is greater than the value of the home.
2. 3. & 5. I agree with completely!
More Important than anything else :
Mr Obama :
Try to negotiate by Diplomacy and Political means ( or Political Pressure ) an end to Never Ending Wars, Eternal Wars, Eternal Violence in Foreign Lands. Eternal Revenge, Eternal Resentment, Eternal Sadism.
Do your best effort Mr Obama .... Don't listen to the Dogs of War, the profiteers and their funded and paid stooges and minions in TV Networks, the Press and Congress !
War turns men into beasts. Violence, rape, thievery, cruelty, sadism, hate, imbecility. And lies, lies, lies ..... "Collateral Damage" everywhere.
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Vicente Duque
But that old document just doesn't matter anymore here in the U.S.S.A (United Socialist States of America).
Look at what the republicans have wrought in 30 years! WOW.
Obviously UnConstitutional
2. Congress must join the civilized world and expand Medicare For All Americans.
Not Constitutional. If you disagree , tell why.
3. Demand publicly-funded elections and a prohibition on elected officials leaving office and becoming lobbyists.
Not implementable by Presidential decree- Thank God!
4. Each of the 50 states must create a state-owned public bank like they have in North
Dakota.
Haven't looked into this one.
5. Save this fragile planet and declare that all the energy resources above and beneath the ground are owned collectively by all of us.
Not Constitutional - Anybody ever heard of private property rights.
Driving is voluntary and to do it you have to agree to follow the automobile laws and to insure for your liability (not for you just the other guy). Robbing banks runs up against that pesky private property rights thing. I detect a decidedly dismissive attitude. Why? To be a nation of laws and not of men you have to deal with the Constitution. It's a tiresome thing I know for all you liberals who already know you are the smartest people in the room and shouldn't have to be bothered by such things. Like the pigs in Animal Farm, "All the animals are equal but some are more equal than others".
And what rules does the government have to live by?....
Hey! Where were you when Bush was president?!
Why is following the Constitution not among your 'rules'?
Bush didn't violate the Constitution at all (unless you count by 'interpretation' after the fact ).
"Once viewed as a rising star of the conservative right with presidential potential, Ensign confessed in June to having an affair with campaign staffer, Cindy Hampton, the wife of a top aide in his Senate office. Since then, revelations of nearly $100,000 paid to the couple by Ensign's parents and claims by Doug Hampton, his mistress' husband, that Ensign improperly set him up in a lobbying job have led to a preliminary ethics inquiry and a request for a Justice Department criminal investigation." ~ Associated Press
That is another way to get the job of lobbyist. LOL
where did Ensign come into this?
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977865704
I've already responded to one of Carla's postings on this, If I'd known it was a three parter I'd have waited.
See you on your article.
2. No, extremely expensive, cuts back on our freedoms
3. Maybe, reform in that direction is a good idea
4. Why? And what role would the Fed have?
5. No. One of the major tenants of Marxism is abolition of Private property. Unconstitutional by the way.
Sorry Michael Moore, those were not even funny.
Thanks for posting Carla.
By the way, have you been following John Ensign's sordid story?
Not very closely.
"Also, it must be stated by law: If you lose your job, you cannot be tossed out of your home."
Really? So I can intentionally get fired and just chill out in my expensive home? I would love that! I vote for you! Of course, it's insane and won't last very long, but if wishes did come true .......