Our priorities are screwed up!

In addition, cut the military budget dramatically and tax the super rich and corporations at a 70% rate (during the Eisenhower administration the top marginal tax rate was 91%). Use the otherwise wasted $$$$ for the following which will ensure that we have full employment and a truly fair and sustainable society.  Call it Socialism, Communism, economic democracy or a Christian-based economy.  I don't care what it is called.  Just do it.  Share the loaves and fishes.

• End homelessness
• Full free health care for everyone
• Free education for all
• Fix the crumbling American infrastructure - roads, bridges, sidewalks, water & sewer systems, repair schools and more
• Train and hire nurses, doctors, and other medical technicians
• Train and hire legions of home care workers to help take care of the growing numbers of aging citizens
• Retro-fit all buildings across the nation with solar power
• Convert the military production system to build offshore wind turbines, commuter rail systems, solar and tidal power systems
• Weatherize every house and business across the nation
• Transform run down urban centers into parks and organic gardens.  Hire unemployed people to do the work.  Plant a ga-zillion trees across America
• Change the Pentagon into the 'Natural Guard' and have them help communities that are hit by big storms which are more frequent and more severe due to global warming
• Train and hire more teachers, counselors and teacher aides
• Make mental health care free for anyone who needs it.  Train and hire more mental health and addiction services workers
• Free day care for all - train and hire more day care workers
• Train and hire a new generation of skilled carpenters, plumbers, electricians, mechanics, engineers, etc
• Create a world-class national public mass transit system
• Build affordable housing for everyone
• De-militarize the police and have them retrained to be true peace keepers
• Transform the prison system from punishment to restorative justice
• Pay reparations for slavery and land confiscation from Native Americans
• Pay every worker a living wage and empower unions to represent all workers in making decisions at their workplaces
• Create more cooperatives
• Dump the Federal Reserve Bank and create state banks (like in North Dakota) that are owned by the public
• Make all public spaces accessible to the handicapped
• Build and staff more museums and art spaces for everyone - not just for the rich
• Create more and wider bicycle lanes throughout the nation
• Revoke corporate personhood by amending our Constitution to make clear that corporations are not persons and money is not speech
• Give every citizen the right to vote without any impediments
• Repeal the Patriot Act and shut down the surveillance state
• Free popcorn at all movie theaters 

Bruce