This was Psycho's idea for a thread but he never started it so I gave it some thought and I will start....

Presidential platform

1. Establish a standard by which we measure whether foreign workers are getting a fair level of pay. Current ??free market? practices are responsible for encouraging corporations to outsource jobs to countries that use child and slave labor and environmentally destructive practices that are not tolerated in the U.S. If foreign origin goods or services are provided by workers whose compensation does not meet human rights standards, then those goods or services should not be importable into the US.

2. Amend all of the existing trade agreements to eliminate financial incentives for companies to outsource American jobs overseas. Rather than bringing American wages down to Third World levels, the Braun administration will bring Third World country wages up to American levels

3. Election of the president:

A. It wwould be by direct election, with a runoff between the 2 leading candidates if no one has a majority. Election by plurality should be eliminated for all elections

B. there should be a minimum IQ requirement for presidents. They should prove that they can test at least at an IQ of 120, namely superior. We should not be subjected to presidents who are too stupid to understand the implications of what they are doing.

C. Money clearly corrupts the democratic process. Office holders should not be allowed to accept any contributions or gifts that are worth more than $100 from any person, company or entity for any reason. Such actions would greatly reduce the power of lobbyists to influence decisions made by Members of Congress.

4. DRUGS:

A. End the drug war that has put millions of Americans in prison and cost the taxpayers more than $230 billion since 1968. Drug problems are health problems, and they should not become criminal problems. By making drugs illegal, violent crime and gangs are allowed to prosper as they did when alcohol was made illegal, and prison populations dramatically increased. Once drugs have become legalized, the prison populations will be substantially reduced, and the billions of dollars that are spent on the drug war can be used for more constructive purposes

Like Education: The most important factor in breaking the cycle of welfare and poverty is having an educational system that provides high-quality instruction to all students

B. medical marijuana should be legal and taxed with the proceeds going to education and social programs.

C. people addicted to drugs who want help should be given their drugs in a supervised institutional setting. They don??t need to be put in prison, their addiction will imprison them. This type of institution would be cheaper than a prison & eliminate all the organized crime surrounding drug trafficking;

By decriminalize all drugs, the army of drug control police can be reassigned to fighting real crime, including the corporate criminals who steal the vast majority of the money from the American people.

4. primary health care should be available to everyone at subsidized clinics

Fees at these clinics should be based on ability to pay. providing universal health care for all Americans. This Health Care System will be operated on a non-profit basis, in contrast to the current system that is structured around the financial interest of drug and insurance companies and physicians and dentists who ??operate? on a commission basis.

5. Decreasing estate taxes for the wealthy should be restricted to cases where there is a small, family business to be preserved, such as a family farm. There is no need to reduce estate taxes for the wealthy where only shares in publicly held corporations or luxury residences are in question.

6. Places like Saudi Arabia, where women lack basic civil rights and are treated as slaves, should not be considered our friends or receive our support. No matter how much oil they offer us.

7. Government subsidies in this country should be drastically reduced, starting at the top there should be a prohibition against giving a dime of government money to anyone whose annual income or total assets exceed one billion dollars. Why should agricultural subsidies be going to Ted Turner and David Rockefeller for gosh sakes?!

With all the money saved by ending those huge numbers of subsidies, the government could afford to pay the kinds of salaries that attract highly qualified people from the private sector. example, if every member of Congress were paid a million dollars a year, that would cost less than one percent of what it costs to run the Department of Agriculture. Imagine what we could do if that money went into social services and education. We could afford to increase ell grants so more people could go to college.


There is no reason to deprive any citizens of the right to vote.

Voting stations should be supervised and should remain open until all have voted.

People that have served time in prison have paid their dues and their right to vote should be reinstated so that they can feel like they are a integral part of their community.

Given their historical record, corporations are mindless money machines that must be carefully regulated. Corporations have no loyalty to the American people or even their shareholders. They are not human, yet their financial power allows them to hire an army of lobbyists who directly influence the legislative process in the USA and other countries.

Private corporations that create waste and pollution should never be allowed to determine environmental regulations or deal with the production, transport or storage of radioactive wastes. Bush administration??s policy of simply ??trusting? corporations to do the right thing is a policy of stupidity. No one with such a misinformed understanding of reality should be elected to be President of the United States.

Given that a large number of multinational corporations are now financially larger than many countries, it is important not to allow their financial power and lobbyists to influence legislation because it undermines the democratic process. So we need a Constitutional Amendment that bans all corporate and business lobbying and contributions

Shift from fossil and nuclear fuels to alternative fuels such as solar hydrogen systems and wind systems. Put more money into researching fuels like, Methane Hydrates which are in abundance and found almost everywhere. Approximately 10 million one-megawatt wind-powered hydrogen production systems will make America 100 percent independent of all fossil and nuclear fuels.

Japan is already WAY ahead of us on this.

America ??s foreign policy should be based on treating others as we want to be treated. However, since WWII, the U.S. has been supporting a large number of brutal and undemocratic regimes in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Iran, Vietnam, and Iraq -- and millions of innocent people have been killed and injured in the process.

The reality is that both Democratic and Republican administrations have used falsified documents and intelligence data to initiate the mass-murder of innocent people in foreign countries such as Vietnam,Columbia,Guatemala, Nicaragua and Iraq, and dozens of other brutal and undemocratic dictators that the U.S. governments has been supporting over the past 6 decades.

Redeployment of Army and Marine units along America??s borders to help ensure the integrity of the borders but this is only a band aid. We need to look at the economics of why illegal immigration is occurring in the first place. Specifically, ensure that the U.S. trade agreements with foreign countries will require comparable wages, working conditions and environmental regulations, so that foreign workers will not need to come to the U.S. in order to have a decent lifestyle for their families. Rather than reducing the American standard of living.

AND stop using military force to impose our will and culture on others. If the logic of using pre-emptive military strikes against other countries that could be a threat to America was used against the Soviet Union, an unnecessary catastrophic thermonuclear war may well have been the outcome.

Waging a preemptive war against a nation that does not attack us first should be unthinkable.

Respect all religious beliefs, because no one can disprove or prove anyone??s personal belief system. As such, the government should rely on scientific data and not religious views in the establishment of domestic laws and U.S. foreign policy.

Stop all the secrecy in government, which is a direct contraction to the democratic principles of government. Create an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will eliminate the concept of ??executive privilege,? which allows Presidents to hide the truth by withholding documents and information from the American people. . With the exception of obvious matters of military and national security.

Wealthy individuals should pay a higher tax rate than individuals who work for a living at minimum wage levels and the federal government should be required to balance its budget each year and pay off the national debt that now requires more than $300 billion each year in interest payments.

Restricted arms sells to rogue nations should be reinstated.

Accept Cuba or reject China- as both are communist and both have extensive human rights violations. China simply has more money and can buy more US shit..

So that about covers it....

BLUECAT FOR PRESIDENT...


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