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Bring Back The Fireside Chat
Bring back the fireside chat that FDR created. Make it lo-fi thing. Tell us what's going on, answer email, keep us engaged. Make it a podcast, could be a video, distribute it everywhere. Invite guests... don't make it scripted. Just one more thing to drive transparency.
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The economy
How is this not #1. Unemployment at 6.5%, home values dropping, layoffs everywhere, sales down, etc. If you don't fix the economy there will be little use in electric cars, mass transit or event education.
160 votes -
Legalizing Marijuana
It is far past time to legalize marijuana, tax it, and use the money for a legitimate purpose.
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148 votes
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Bring our troops home from Iraq
It's time to bring them home.
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Bring local voice back into our media
Something needs to be done so that our broadcast media is not simply platforms for advertising, but rather a source of information and news. It may be time to re-regulate the media industry so that five or six companies no longer control our televisions, newpapers and our radio.
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1 vote
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Get rid of the electoral college
Presidents should be elected by popular vote! Everyone talked about this in 2000 and 2004 when half of us were disenfranchised, but it's all but forgotten once someone gets into the White House. Let's elect our President as an entire country, not as Red and Blue states.
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Free public wifi
Free public wifi in as many places as possible.
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Pass Medicare for All, HR 676
John Conyers legislation which would cover ALL Americans with a single payer health care system. It would be like Medicare, except that everyone would be covered.
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Save lives create infrastructure for self driving cars
A new system of highways would SAVE LIVES (about 41,000 a year), allow for goods and services to get to market faster, and allow for electric cars as the view of the car as a status symbol diminished. You would just get in the next car some day because you rent time. Current technologies for self driving cars require them to interact with people driven cars, but a infrastructure where only computer driven cars were allowed would allow the cars to communicate with "ground traffic control" and each other.
This would help the automotive industry, where people would want to…
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Regime change at the US Mint
With each passing year, American currency is becoming more of a joke. The US Mint is squandering all of its design resources on creating commemorative coins, rather than appropriately modernizing the design of our currency. We need bills and coins that are simply designed with a clean and modern aesthetic. If done properly, United States currency will not only have value, but also be valued.
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don't forget the people > don't forget put words into action
just do what you said - do not stop listening - not to those around you but to people - just people.
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Real healthcare reform
We need healthcare whether employed or not, rich or not, insured or not. Healthcare, affordable healthcare, is a right.
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Appoint someone like Lessig to advise on new media issues.
We're crippled by lobbyists from the MPAA and RIAA, and people like Ted Stevens being in charge of committees that oversee the internet and its uses. Instead of having MPAA lobbyists and "series of tubes" heads of government advising on internet and new media related issues, hire someone from the EFF or like organization to actually advise with experience and concern for the people, not a for-profit agency.
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Allow the people true power, to vote presidents out too
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy he's president. But the process sucks. Once we vote in someone, it's almost impossible to vote him/her out. The past 8 years prove that this process sucks and doesn't give the "power to the people." If Obama wants to do something radical, give us the power to vote him out (not that I want anyone to do that).
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Congress needs a Geek Corp like Obama...
Jerimiah Owyang tallied social networking stats for the candidates showing a huge advantage to Obama. Now Gene Koo writes that Congress, not Obama, needs a Geek Corps.
What a wonderful idea. I’d love to help “rework the interface between legislators and their constituencies: to rebuild trust and honest, genuine relationships between lawmakers and We the People.”
...links and more at http://dalelarson.com/2008/11/geek-corps-for-congress.html
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Change Congress
Lessig: "The flaw at the core of the People's House is dependency. Think of the dynamic of the dependency of an alcoholic. The alcoholic may be losing his family, his job, his liver, but we all know he will not solve any of those problems unless he solves his alcoholism first. It's not that alcoholism is the most important problem; it's just the first problem he needs to solve if he is to solve the rest.
There is no end to the problems that we as a nation face—from global warming to Iraq to the economy to media reform to…
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Making welfare to be less about shame and more about pride.
So many people view welfare as a pit of quicksand. What if welfare were a stepped process and get some sort of financial bonus for staying OFF welfare for an extended period of time, or a financial bonus for completing vocational training.
11 votes
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