Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Immigration
- Address the immigration problem with formation of a North American Union instead of walls at the northern or southern U.S. borders. The union would allow for free trade among countries yet would allow each country to maintain its own laws and unique identity. Each country would issue ID cards to all citizens. All employers ranging from large companies to small day-labor-hiring outfits would be required to check ID cards and adhere to specific hiring practices. Mexican, Canadian and U.S citizens could live and work in other NA union countries under visas and under the oversight of their employers, whoâ??d be subject to alien hiring restrictions. Health and human services would be covered by citizensâ?? native countries or employers, not picked up by the countries into which people had immigrated. In rare instances where services were emergently provided to aliens/immigrant workers by host countries, those expenses would be billed back to the alienâ??s country or employer of origin. Free trade and regulated but open borders would benefit the three union countries in various ways, particularly with prescription drug and buyable good prices, and it would help liberalize our own countryâ??s cannabis laws. A union approach would vastly improve the standard of living in Mexico, which would help stem the tide of immigrants coming to live and work in the U.S. The U.S. and Canada would have to help Mexico get its crime and corruption problems under control initially, but that could be done.
Howdy Birdgirl!

NORTH AMERICAN UNION??

Are you positive that you want that, do you want the United States to slowly fade into obscurity? Of course I am not going to agree with everything that you say, although I do like many of your ideas. But this has to be one of your worst. I would rather sacrifice the right to smoke ganja (if I had it to begin with) than to relinquish our sovereignty and jeopardize our national identity.

Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
An expansion or offshoot of Sarbannes-Oxley
Sarbannes-Oxley is raping corporations as it is, if we don't consider reducing its strength, America may loose its competitive edge. Corporations are now considering going private because compliance is so difficult. Tyco, Enron, etc. did hurt our nation, but that does not justify punishment of all public companies and their leaders. I think there is probably a place in the middle that I would be comfortable with.

Quote Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Reproductive rights and abortion access for all women, which, if the sex education plan mentioned in the Education category above is implemented properly, will be far less needed. An adoption-encouragement step is a routine part of the access procedure. Women who have been through the adoption-encouragement step and still want an abortion can then proceed to termination, but with better sex education, access to birth control, and the adoption counseling approach, this should be the exception rather than the rule.
Each year, 1.3 million women in the United States undergo an abortion. Abortions have become a convenience for irresponsible people to avoid responsibility. The sex ed argument does not fly with me...I went to a very conservative high school (Barbara Bush MS, Ronald Reagan HS), I go to Texas A&M, and my parents really didn't tell me shit about sex. This did not turn out to be problem...I know all that I need to know about contraceptives and I have known these things since probably the 6th grade. Ignorance should not be accepted as an excuse. Information flows as freely as it ever has...giving out handfuls of condoms hardly seems to be a better alternative to abstinence only education, which I will admit has become an extremely partisan issue.

Just my two cents...Happy 420 all!