- Gambling - state and local issue by vote
- Euthanasia - state and local issue by vote (protect those disabled who are not in a coma where not competent to agree to euthanasia).
- Hunger - Focus on developing agricultural techniques in areas of need; review whether excess restaurant food, which is otherwise wasted, can be used locally.
- World health - educate and treat - develop foreign leadership/enterprise
- Excessive Litigation Awards - Damage limits on lawsuits; penalties for frivolous lawsuits; additional forms of dispute resolution
- Corporate fraud/executive compensation/shareholder suits - develop incentive compensation standards, uniform standards for meaningful shareholder meetings, trust fund holdings for executives (i.e., one year delay of release of sale proceeds on sale of stock). Limit attorney fees in shareholder suits where damages are coming from the corporation. Need procedures for public market cooling periods to avoid post 9/11 type drops. Develop ethics/licensing standards for corporate executives of public companies (just as licenses are required of lawyers and doctors, the public trusts executives and they should be licensed and monitored).
- Canada/Mexico/US - More cooperative efforts for economy, energy, environment and technology.
- Space Travel - Reasoned cost/benefit analysis; privatize; move NASA to defense department; protection of satellites is crucial.
- Undertake fresh water initiative in Africa.
- Balanced Technology - we must continue to strive to progress in areas of medicine, energy, environment, and other technology; we also must step back from technology and improve our human relationships and existence. We must encourage artistic/cultural advances.
- Second-hand smoke - state and local issue by vote; however, an individual's right to smoke in private is preserved as an individual right (i.e., it is simply not the government's place).
- Encourage more government and charitable organization joint ventures for community good
- Welfare reform - must establish paternity before child qualifies (seek child support); random drug tests and annual physicals required of recipients; courses on birth control/abstinence, health, abuse, and job training for families receiving welfare (i.e., if government pays and is supporting a family, it is entitled to know what is going on and to take steps to help family move to healthy, self sufficiency) Review public housing plans including low income housing tax credits (which would be eliminated under tax plan anyway)
- News media responsibility/accountability - News sources are generally not neutral and we must stop spreading the illusion that they are.
- Assist third world countries with clean water initiatives.
Goals: Power to the people.
Reasons: We have lost focus in a lot of areas; we have been so busy protecting various groups/individuals that we are losing Americana (free, capitalist yet compassionate society). We must focus on quality of life issues.
"Believe in Life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life."
-W.E.B. DuBois
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right." -Mahatma Gandhi
"The noblest of all forms of government is self-government; but it is also the most difficult."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"I know of no better or safer human tribunal than the people." -William McKinley