Getting to an agenda

Fiscal Responsibility - constantly rebuke the republican "Big Spending" policies - constantly putting us in "Debtors Prison".

Change the voting day to Saturday (not Sunday) for all elections.
Constantly speak of the republicans being in bed with the "elite" and completely ignoring the people that " drive cars not helicopters" and do the real work of america. People that work 2 and 3 jobs to make ends meet cannot be expected to take any time off to vote, and everyone needs a level opportunity to vote. We have also seen a pileup of voters after sunset and in the past two elections in particular, many have simply been denied their rights and virtually all of them have been minority voters. (Absolutely not Sunday or our religious leaders will be too tempted to become politicians).

Universal Health care and not the "self regulation" we have seen over the past five years that has resulted in hyper inflation of drugs and health plans - make "self regulation" a dirty word - kill it - stomp it into the ground.
The democrats need to embrace a "Can Do" attitude - The United States of America was able to go to the moon - we established the greatest democracy in history - we can take care of our children's health, our elderly, and we can do it better than all the other industrialized nations that already have such plans and take care of their families. This is a family value issue and American needs to value its families health and not the companies that have been pirating their money during the current republican majority administration.

We need to make some reforms that will take effort and stir controversy. Reforms that will make us a better country, a stronger country and take down the walls that have been building far too long. Communication is the bridge to understanding and wisdom - we need work in this area. For over 200 years we have and continue to be a collection of independent spirits working together as We the People of the United States of America. Too many of us cannot understand and appreciate what each of us have to say, not because we do not welcome anothers thoughts, not because we are afraid, not because we are from another culture - it is far more simple than that: We really cannot understand because we do not speak the language. We need to implement a requirement that everyone entering the country - whether through marriage or otherwise, be required to complete 600 hours of english language courses. This is already done in other countries and it is important that it be done now in this country.
(I will add more on this later, but several reasons for this bill I hope are obvious: Tons of blue collar workers and red state voters will love this - republicans and democrats alike. We need a leadership issue that everyone can rally around. The republicans will not really be able to argue with this, but we can constantly pretend to be adamantly arguing with them and lead the public to believe that they don't like it for some odd reason. The bill will be good for democrats - "understanding rather than fear" work for democrats and against the republicans. Better language skills will increase the power of the the work force, diminish what amounts to as "domestic slavery", diminish forced prostitution and a host of other language related shortfalls.
And - it will seem like real leadership - which it is!.

Change the prison system - get rid of so many behind bars that were perpetrators of victimless crimes.......
(This is a no brainer - we can bring up fiscal responsibility, and a whole host of republicans that support the idea - again a family values arguement: EG; Many of our children make stupid mistakes and poor choices that effect them and their families deeply. They need help and counseling and intervention - all things we know to be the best and most economical ways in which to deal with their mistaken behavior. Good family values clearly tells us that these are not the people to send to prison, to expose them to disease and brutes and the worst of humanity for their victimless mistakes. It is not just the best way to deal with them, it is not just the most economical way to deal with them, it is how we should show this group our love for them and our enduring hope for them.

A new day for energy and science:
We embrace science and intelligence - we embrace the scientific community and put forth the leadership and ideas that our earth is precious and it needs our attention now more than ever. The Space program is great and has been great but we truly need to ask if spending less than 1% of 1% of the Nasa budget on the study of our Oceans is any longer a prudent spending of our resources. We need to increase the study of our oceans and our lands and our air and our water because these are family values, our earth is our families future as it is now and we need to know its heart and lungs and blood before it becomes ill and we know too little to balance it back to health.
We need to embrace alternate energy technology and put our best and brightest to work on implementing what we know and creating more and better technologies for the future. We will create jobs by becoming the world leader in this arena, and we will save money and lower the cost of energy and energy dependence for everyone in this country - even the lower 98% of us who drive cars and not helicopters.

We see that the Evangelical religion has taken over West Point and other military academies - we see only the lowest of the military being tried and sentenced for aggregious crimes, yet we know in our hearts that "We the people" did not ask for our young men and women to be brainwashed in their beliefs, nor did we ask them to follow their commanders and go to prison from their commanders misdirection. Our military is the greatest there is on earth - and let know one think that this is a slight on them, but the military needs to be far more accountable and far more open that it has been over the last five years. Open ended checks to private military companies with no real accounting for billions of our dollars and our children's dollars is an was never acceptable. Did you know that in many cases we pay private companies to escort our own military in Iraq.
The private security soldiers make over $1,000 a day and the companies that pay them make far more than that. Many of our best fighters leave our military as soon as they can and move to civilian posts in the same war because we pay companies that pay them $30,000 a month or more to leave us!

More later...