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-- reinvigorate industrial America;
-- end Wall Street's financial chokehold;
-- return money creation power to Congress as the Constitution mandates;
-- encourage publicly-owned state banks like North Dakota's, making it prosperous when most states are debt-strapped and faltering;
-- create full-time, good-paying jobs with benefits; don't destroy them;
-- bring back those offshored;
-- protect homeowners from foreclosure;
-- re-institute progressive taxes, including a Tobin tax (perhaps 1%) on all speculative financial transactions, a millionaire's/Wall Street bank levy generating a huge windfall, enough to smack if not close the budget gap, making those most able pay; for example, the Bank for International Settlements estimated annual 2008 global over-the-counter derivatives trading at $743 trillion; a 1% tax would yield $7.43 trillion, and if taxes curbed speculation, the take would still be enormous;
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