Friday, October 07, 2011

Not Very Specific and Too Many Demands

Well, they - Occupy Wall Street -  are taking an important step: trying to specify their goals. Of course, being a true grass roots organization and, thus, not having leaders, this list is unofficial. Here it is:
  • Restoration of the living wage.
  • Institute a universal single payer healthcare system.  
  • Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
  • Free college education.
  • Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
  • One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
  • One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America's nuclear power plants.
  • Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
  • Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
  • Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
  • Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all.
  • Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
  • Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
It's not exactly a laser-like focus on a few concrete, easily understood goals, but it is a start.

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