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[TexasPete]

What are the three most important issues for you this coming election?

For me, it is:

1) Health Care

2) Environment

3) Ending the Iraq fiasco

Yours?

[Czarjorge]

1. Social Change: Yeah, that's pretty broad, but that's what I'm looking for. I'd like the straw man of race to get burnt down and the US to realize its really class issues that seperate us. I'd like us to give up ridiculous idealogical wars like the war on drugs, cigarettes, even terror (aren't we actually at war with terrorists). I'd like to see politics cleaned up, with a greater grass roots influence. Basically, I'd like the US to look at Canada and Europe and take what they're doing well and run with it, rather than uniformly dismissing it. Everything from free education and healthcare to a multi-party system. It's a long shot, but I'm a gambling man.

2. Equitable taxation: Tax the rich, a lot. I would have said the economy, but fair and equitable taxation would be good for the economy. Poor people spend money and drive the economy, rich people invest which drives the economy LESS.

3. Intelligent Management of the War on Terrorism/ists: Why we didn't use the Moussad as a template I have no idea. I'm not suggesting we start assassinating people, but the military is not the way take down terrorists. The FBI and intelligence services should be leading the way. You can use the military when applicable, but invading a country is clearly counterproductive.

[jkelly80]

1. Control of nuclear proliferation.
2. Adequate access to clean, somewhat cheap water in the future
3. Health care

[No_hite_pls]

1. Health Care

2. More honesty and ethics in government

3. Repel of GW tax cuts for the rich kept them for the middle class


OK, there are three but I have few more.

4. Funding for new mass transit systems like in Europe

5. Increase Social Security funding

6. Scale down of US troops in Europe but kept them in Iraq, Korea and Afghanistan

7. Higher fines for drug use but less jail time for offenders

[cbclark4]

1. The war(s) (Either do it or leave occupation sucks.)

2. The economy, invest in education the rest will take care of itself
stop screwing with interest rates, freeze them and let the economy
stabilize on market forces.

3. Healthcare, why not?

[stevemcgarrett]

1. PC climate and indoctrination tactics of far too many professors on college campuses.

2. Dysfunctional families--especially decline in positive father figures but also divorce and separation from children

3. The ghettoization of American pop culture thanks to rap crap and hip-hop slop (although heavy metal and punk need to be added to this insidious mix, too)

[Kuros]

[Funkdafied]

[twg]

[Nowhere Man]

My real number one would be having a greater plurality in politics by combating the two-party stranglehold we currently see. That would involve 1) electoral college reform 2) ending the freeze on the size of the house of representatives and 3) campaign finance reform/curbing the influence of lobbyists. I don't really think any of that is on the table in any serious way (same for healthcare), so here is my "based on reality" list:

1) Multilateral foreign policy and respect for human rights

2) Balance the budget/start shaving off the deficit

3) Keep the foreign earned income tax exclusion where it is or raise it

[stillnotking]

[stillnotking]

1. Ending the occupation of Iraq
2. Ending the surveillance state & reestablishing the rule of law
3. Single-payer health care

[Khenan]

Why bother asking.. I thought we already knew:

1) More choices to choose from when you 'text in your vote' to TV shows

2) A 'drive-thru' on every corner

3) Genetically-modified fat that neither makes you fat nor leads to 'anal drip'

[Adventurer]

For me, the major issues the US faces are:

1)The recession
2)The massive debt
3)universal health care
4)the environment

I really wish instead of having gone to war, the Bush Administration would have put that money into public transportation which would have reduce the dependence on oil.

[Khenan]

Alternatively, we could have just not borrowed it all to begin with.