I guess this is the new trend, so here goes:
Dear Face Book Friends,
This is where I stand. Period. I make no apologies to any or all of my FB friends for this.
I don't listen to what politicians SAY - instead, I pay attention to what they DO (WHICH IS ALL THAT MATTERS).I believe in:
- Reducing INCOME INEQUALITY (California has the highest in the nation) - "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer" here in California.
- Reducing POVERTY (California has the highest poverty rate in the nation).
- Create GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION POLICIES that do not disproportionately burden the poor (California leads the nation in this one too: our "Climate Change" laws disproportionately increase living costs for Latinos, African-Americans, and American Indians.)
- Increasing INCOME OF PERSECUTED CLASSES.
- Reducing COLLEGE COSTS and BRUTAL STUDENT LOAN DEBT.
- Allowing AFFORDABLE HOUSING to be built.
- Feeding those who are HUNGRY.
- Housing those who are OUT IN THE COLD TONIGHT.
- Addressing the OPIOD CRISIS that is now KILLING 70,000 people in America each year.
- Addressing the SUICIDE CRISIS that is now KILLING 40,000 people in America each year (mostly the young).
- Addressing the CHINESE THREAT posed to America (Russian is a shrinking power, while China is a rapidly growing one); the Chinese people are OPPRESSED and have FEW FREEDOMS.
- Addressing the FEDERAL DEBT, climbing towards $22,000,000,000,000 (that's $22 trillion dollars) - that means LIVING WITHIN OUR MEANS AND STOP SPENDING LIKE DRUNKEN SAILORS.
- Helping the MENTALLY ILL and the PHYSICALLY DISABLED.
- Removing American Troops from perfectly capable countries like Germany and Japan, who are rich and can defend themselves.
- Removing American Troops from various quagmires across the land (mostly the Middle East): Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Jordan, Pakistan (I can't think of them all right now) where we spend $TRILLIONS$ of dollars and thousands of lives, and end up causing NOTHING BUT PAIN AND DESTRUCTION.
- Provide our military veterans with appropriate MEDICAL TREATMENT that they have earned.
- Ending CORPORATE WELFARE like the billions recently heaped upon AMAZON and primary owner and $160,000,000,000 (that's $60 billion) Jeff Bezos, who clearly does not need welfare.
- Addressing (lowering) Health Care Costs to make them more affordable for more Americans.
- Institute TERM LIMITS for all politicians, and remove their massive permanent pensions for life after one term served in office; they should be working for the people and not to line their own pockets.
- The MEDIA and POLITICIANS seek to divide us to serve their own petty interests: we have much more in common than we have in differences, but in our "click bait" world, conflict is what "sells", so that is what we get - PLEASE KNOCK IT OFF - IT BRINGS OUT THE WORST IN EVERYONE.
- Change the laws to allow AMERICAN INDIANS to have more say over how their reservations are run, and let them do what they have to do to reduce the POVERTY of their tribal members (American Indians have the highest poverty rate of any group in America by far - and nobody seems to care).
- Parents: control your children's Smart Phone, Computer, and Tablet use, which studies are showing to be EXTREMELY DETRIMENTAL to their health and their futures.
- Compromise and Resolve IMMIGRATION ISSUES, and bring back things KIND OF LIKE the Bracero Program of the 1940's - 1960's.
- Move the world towards ZERO POPULATION GROWTH; there are no Worldwide problems that can't be reduced by LESS PEOPLE! The world is still expanding the human population across the planet like cockroaches!
- Businesses Employing FELONS when they get out of prison so they don't RECOMMIT CRIMES AND GO BACK TO JAIL (ban the box!).
- Ensuring equal access to PUBLIC EDUCATION FOR ALL, especially in the inner cities.
- Removing Unconstitutional Laws that MAKE BEING HOMELESS A CRIME.
- I am in favor of "Peaceful Protest", and I believe that all rioters, looters, and terrorists should be apprehended, prosecuted, and punished, as fits the crime.
- Freedom of Speech, and believe that the Tech Giants that now control public speech should be treated as a part of the government, and therefore have to confirm to free speech guidelines.
