Top three problems you'd solve through legislation

[theliberalavenger]

I've got a guest-post that I think is interesting...

"What are the top three problems that you believe the U.S. is facing that could be addressed directly with reasonable legislation?"

http://liberalavenger.com/2005/04/top-3-problems-youd-solve.html

[LaPera]

1. A Republican (Frist, DeLay, Hastert ) partisan congress

is what your speaking of?

The democrats are weakened...what would you expect to be accomplished?

We've got to fight for morsels!

[Melynn]

2. Easy

Election fraud

Health Care

Deficit spending - repeal the Bush tax cuts.

[chicagojoe]

3. End of death penalty, healthcare/pharmaceutical reform,

TRUE tax reform. The latter would include an abrupt end to corporate welfare. If a company is losing its' ass, too damn bad. Run a better business. Stop getting the Gov't. to bail out the losers.

[Joebert]

4. My 3

1: Election Reform. If 2008 turns out to be 2004: Return of the Rove, I'm seceding.

2: Corporate "running amok". I pay my taxes. They should have to pay theirs.

3: Health / Mental Health. How many problems are exacerbated by a health problem? How many homeless and "criminals" do we have due to un/mis-diagnosed mental health issues?

[oscar111]

5. Jobs for all: health: end poverty

jobs.. no cost, it harnesses the output of those now idle. WPA, CO-OPS, share the work.

healthcare
with a cap on dr salaries to toss out the greedheads like Frist.. who are actually dangerous as well as expensive.. cap salaries at the average income .. no other way to get the greedheads out for sure.
Greedheads in the ranks are why 24 nations outlive us, even tho all those natins pay less for care. Greedheads just dont care to deliver what they know.. and dont keep up to date either.
They are rude, careless, unhelpful.
They pad bills.
Sound familiar?

End poverty... jobs would end most of it.. it exists because of current 14 milion shortage of jobs.. see sig.
This ends hunger and homelessness as well ====OR, you could do grants.. 3OO billion would do that.

[SympatheticBrit]

6. Three things?!

Could think of more than that! I'm not American but I would say strengthening civil liberties to stop things like indefinite imprisonment without trial, tougher sentences for people who commit fraud and corporate crime and also the abolition of all favouritism in the workplace based on race or sex.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi SympatheticBrit!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[LWolf]

7. Poverty, Environment, Corporatization. n/t

[kodi]

8. national health care, immigration, corporate control of media

.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

9. Mine

1. National health care

2. End corporate personhood

3. Allow a person or group to own only one media outlet of any kind in a given metropolitan area.

or

3. Ban "Christmas tree" bills in Congress; adopt the law that prevails in many state legislatures, by which all bills have to deal with only one subject. This will prevent Congresscritters from attaching a totally unrelated rider that gives Corporate Contributor X a whopping tax break to a bill that no one wants to vote against, like the appropriation to keep the national parks open.

I'm not sure which would be the more beneficial.