I would do this not only because I would like to see all civil liberties restored for Americans but I would also like to cut the waste and shrink some of the agencies and sell some of the buildings and end some of the contracts that have risen up as part of this "Top Secret America" that Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arking took a look at. They detailed how a lot of these national security agencies and a lot of these organizations have become entrenched in our system and they are doing a lot of things with national security information and exchanging it and it may not be good for security but it's also wasteful. It's taking a lot of money that could be used for other things instead of fighting the war on terror.
#8 Repeal the Anti-Union Taft- Hartley Act
The Taft-Hartley Act, which is an older law that was put in place when there was this fervor against unions that was rising up in the early 1900s. And, it basically gave employers the right to bust unions and deny workers their right to collectively bargain. It is essential that we reaffirm the rights of unions in this country and maybe even go as far as to give workers opportunities to turn businesses and factories into places where they can have workers' councils and they can have some kind of voice in the way that the place that they work for is organized.
#7 Establish a System of Single-Payer Healthcare
I think that the tradition of progress is such that eventually you will see this nation get to the point where it will need and where politically a single-payer system will be created. The country will change the way that Medicare is limited and government will expand it to cover all Americans because that is the system that will save money and that is the system that will actually work better than the for-profit healthcare system we have right now.
#6 Cut the Bloated
Military Budget
I would do this to better fund the human needs of Americans, to put it toward other things like social programs and reinvigorate the social safety net that is really necessary for people in this country. You have to pull it from somewhere. And the military is taking up about 57% of the budget when you actually run the numbers. That's how much it is. We need to decrease the amount of war that we are exporting to other countries so I would reduce this.
#5 Withdraw from Wars in Middle East
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