I have added a link to the Gravel for President website so you can do some of your own research, but here are some of his thoughts on the issues to chew on.
- funding education as the top priority it must be in a democracy; repealing the Electoral College;
- enacting term limits at the federal level;
- reforming Social Security by putting real money in the Trust Fund, investing it properly and identifying the interests of individual beneficiaries so that they can leave their surplus in the fund to their heirs;
- enacting a universal health care system covering all Americans from birth to death; rebuilding our gridlocked transportation system and our crumbling national infrastructure;
- repealing the income tax and closing down the IRS replacing it with a Fair Tax (with a pre-bate for necessities) that will reverse the flight of jobs and capital abroad (the ensuing economic growth that the Fair Tax will induce will pay for my program for health care, education and a new national infrastructure);
- launching and leading a massive global scientific effort to end energy dependence on oil and integrating the world’s scientific community to this task,
- taking responsibility and mitigating our nation’s impact on the world’s environment; and
organizing and leading an intelligence and police organization of willing nations, similar to NATO, to root out terrorism and addressing its causes through aggressive diplomacy.
1 comment:
Ummm, don't you think he should do something rather than the status quo? :)
For real, though, how about tackling one or two issues at a time?!? Has this dude ever heard about biting off more than he can chew? Shoot, I'd vote for him if I thought any of his ideas would be feasible in 4 or even 8 years. But reality is that his ideas might be good over a lifetime, but very unrealistic unless there would be a revolution. REVOLT!
I'm glad you put this dude up here. I like seeing the broad spectrum that is a possibility. And I like to have a good laugh every day too...
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