A major public works program, funded by ending the Afghanistan and other pointless battles, in which veterans are giving first priority for jobs.
A major ecological refitting program modeled on the WPA in which the unemployed are put to work making America more ecologically sensible.
Restore train service to the level it was in the 1880s with the emphasis on normal passenger and freight rail rather than business class high speed service.
End credit card usury by putting a cap on their interest rates at about the level they were in the 1980s, i.e. single digit.
End corporate personhood
Elect the Attorney General
Institute instant runoff voting
Have campaigns publicly financed
Increase the number of states so that, as at present, 22 states with a combined population less than California don't have 22 times as many votes as California. This would also give blacks and latinos a chance of being better represented.
End the war on drugs
Start a single payer health plan perhaps initially be lowering the age of Medicare.
Use the Dean Baker approach to dealing with foreclosures
Institute a shared equity program in which the government becomes a co-owner of troubled homes
Improve jury rights
Expand restorative justice
Expand community courts
Fund the teaching of mediation and dispute resolution in schools
Encourage cooperatives and credit unions
Break up big banks
Restore Glass-Steigall
Abolish war just as we did slavery
Lower the drinking age
Raise the minimum wage
Shorten the work week
Increase funding for alternative energy
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