What issue is most important to you in the current election cycle?1. Improving Education in this country–fostering all aspects of learning, including the arts. As an example, my pre-teen nephew had no idea who Shakespeare was. . . .2. Economy and Health Care3. Selection of Supreme Court Justices4. Foreign Policy5. Economy and Health Issues6. Health Care7. Health Care!8. Stop this unjustified war and end America’s policy of preemptive aggression without forfeiting our civil rights. Put someone in the White House who understands and supports women’s issues.9. Economy10. War11. War, health care, economy12. The energy crisis, the economy, the war, and marriage laws.13. Restoration of checks and balances. Political far-sightedness (seeing beyond the next election, which unfortunately seems impossible in our system.) “Re-regulation” of Wall Street. Alternative energy tax credits. Fixing social security (remove the cap). Withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Get rid of Republicans’ expansion of government (ironic for a Dem to call for smaller gov’t) by eliminating the Department of Homeland Security (return agencies to former departments), all faith-based initiatives, GSEs except FDIC and Federal Reserve (let’s have free markets!), the Task Force on New Americans, and illegal wiretapping (back to FISA!). Increased mass transit funding from federal level. Return to Clinton surplus. Single-payer universal healthcare. No further drilling offshore or in Alaska. Restore line-item veto to deal with pork! Raise capital gains taxes, corporate taxes, and implement a windfall carbon tax. Lower income taxes on middle and lower classes. Make abortion legal in all cases; defend Roe v. Wade. Make buying a weapon more difficult. Make gay marriages legal, not just “civil unions.” Raise minimum wage. Tax increases on corporations for every job they ship overseas. Get rid of public funding for candidates and replace with licensing requirement for TV and radio networks that states they must give a certain amount of air time to candidates. No more special interest influence.14. World economy, including the war in Iraq, which affects it considerably15. education and any effort to lead to more discussion and less bipartisanship16. Right now, the economy, but also climate change and education17. Healthcare18. getting a Democrat in the White House19. Economy–Iraq War20. Healthcare21. so many, not sure where to start but here’s a few, The Wars, Health Care, Education (including arts in education) economy, our lack of respect in this world, I could go on but top three is War, Health Care, Education22. poverty and the divide between rich and poor. I support [environmentalist] Van Jones for a new deal to create new jobs in the new green industry
