We're building a better America here, one Gorram Jenga block at a time. I'll continue to post selections for the two lists as we mature.
(Attribution) as my memory and media streaming allow. I didn't seek permission for attribution and didn't imply participation, merely the source of the concept, ideation, or legislation mentioned.
Government Reform (Warren)
Campaign and election reform
Expand the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Presidential conflicts and immunity legislation
Campaign finance reform
to wrest control of the candidates and the elections from the influence of big money.
Children and Social Issues
permanent child tax credits (Harris)
eldercare tax credits
One voice, one person, one vote.
Housing
Affordable housing
Reform Real Estate Investment regulation (Harris)
Provide below-market interest loans for middle and lower-income first-time buyers
A better path to wealth than inflationary house flipping
Racial equality (Dean)
Employment equality
Election equality
Healthcare
Reform big pharma price gouging and control of healthcare (Warren, Biden)
Women's Health
A woman's health is a woman's issue. (All of us)
Expand Medicare and Social Security (Sanders)
I want to be empowered to feel good about my retirement
Increase and expand benefits to eye and dental care
Extend the contribution cap for the wealthy
Increase Medicare negotiation on prescription drugs (Klobuchar)
Immigration
A saner path to immigration
Revise and pass a Bipartisan Border Security Act (Harris)
Share the wealth (Sanders)
Minimum wage increases to implement a Living Wage
Lower and middle-income tax relief
Tax reform on high earners and corporations
Mandated maternity, vacation, and sick time
Incentives to unionize
No taxes on tips for wage earners in the lowest brackets (Harris)
Wealth tax (Warren, Sanders)
I don't want to pay taxes.
I want everything to be cheaper than it is.
These lists are patterned after two characters I featured in earlier versions of a blog in which two psychoanalysts in a convertible search for a good burger joint that also serves vegan food and talk about nothing in particular. I suppose you could compare these to the Ego and the Id, but that would not be intentional; or transactional analysis, which would also be unintentional. A happy couple that lives in someone's head perhaps is closer, after all I'm a Gemini.
Occasionally I repost them.
