Redesign cities for climate change, walking and spending time outdoors
Replace common core with research backed pedagogy and developmental milestones including expanding cause-effect, analytical thinking and problem solving, civics and communication.
Retirement is not employer based but a national system.
Classes and support groups for parents (evenings at local elementary schools?) including math, literacy, executive functioning, child development and communication.
Expand funds for music education, art, bilingual education and creative pursuits.
Reduce prison populations through rehab programs, educational prevention, mentor programs for youth, and elimination of private prisons.
You need to add cults (source: Dr. Steven Hassan). First, it needs to be illegal for cult leaders to run for president of the U.S. Second, Psych Education must be mandatory for all, so everyone can identify and resist cults.
Dear lady, your ends are beautiful but I fear your means. Mandatory and Forbidden are words to be feared in the hand holding Power. Can we come together to discern more deeply the lure of the cults to which you refer, the needs which people are seeking to fill in hazarding into them, and the ways we can work together to help each other identify cults and the alternatives for getting those needs met?
By “church” I mean a physical site. Movements/ belief systems without any solid base would be difficult to locate and pin down, let alone tax. But if you have a group that meets regularly (even in borrowed space), then you have to pay taxes.
If they complain that it's socialism just remind them that getting the services you paid for when you paid your taxes is the most capitalist thing imaginable
Funny enough, I've been saying to friends & family for months that we need to do something similar to FDR’s New Deal. But instead of using the taxes from the rich to build bridges & roads, why not use the money to improve the environment? Build bike paths, build safe and green bridges for wildlife, plant trees, clean up our oceans/rivers/ponds/etc, etc. Essentially, build a future.
Build neighborhood green spaces for access to fresh vegetables. I'm all for trees ordinarily, but we have a ton of food deserts, especially in urban environments that could benefit from access to food gardens. Cities with wooded parks could include fruit and nut trees to the non-food trees already there. Whatever hardy type that will grow in the climate.
- Dismantle the carceral state. Eliminate private prisons. Add attorney representation to the rights of the accused; do not allow states to abrogate the assignment of attorney representation in any way and restore public defenders in all criminal cases. Incentivize carceral alternatives for non-violent or low-level offenders, i.e. instead of remanding to prison, require convicts to report to skilling programs to obtain certification in skilled work, then complete their parole as a probationary period performing skilled public service.
- Legalize marijuana at the federal level. Expunge criminal convictions for marijuana. Provide restitution to victims of the war on drugs in the form of expedited, preferential, early, etc. access to industry licensure.
- Expunge convictions of prostitution, seal records, and re-identify as victims of trafficking.
- Adopt the ERA, make it enforceable, and establish an agency for its enforcement.
- Establish an Department of Public Good and give it oversight of offices including the US Office of Color of Law, task it to spin up state- and local-level counterparts across the country. Anywhere a DA is an elected offcial, there must be a counterpart dedicated to protecting the rights of the individual and the rights of the public by prosecuting infringement of constitutional rights as criminal offenses, as per felony color of law, etc. and related criminal offenses, for any official found to have infringed up on the constitutional rights of either the individual citizen or against the public good.
- Make the immigration process uniform and end policies and practices that are bespoke according to country of origin. Formalize the naturalization conclusion for DACA recipients. Re-establish military service as an immigration pathway. Create policy that extends some degree of legal status or residency options from citizen family members to non-citizen family members.
I'm fully supporting the positive advocacy focus to this rebellion. It's a new age and past methods of change won't be as effective as they've been in the past imo. As long as we look at both sides of each suggestion you've presented, to keep the big picture in view, I believe it will gain continued support. I would like to add to your list; that no position of State or Federal government made be held by an individual convicted of a felony. I'm sure I'll have more to add at another time. Great work GOD!!
Under the 20 hours gun training, add basic physics and strength of materials. How many homes would a bullet travel through in say, an apartment vs a block of houses.
Dear God, I was not referring to your impeccable numbering. The point I was trying to make was public education is being strangled and there will be no critical thinking taught in religious based schools. To my knowledge almost all private schools in Indiana are Christian based. Love you and your amazing son who is also you. Keep up your wonderful work keeping us from jumping off the curb. Barbara from Indiana
Amen!! and I'd add health insurance for all. When I lived in Canada I paid $56 a month for insurance and it covered everything, even 12 massages, visits to a counselor, etc.
Under voting rights, I would also follow what I experienced in Canada -- an election was called, and politicians had only 90 days to get people to vote for them ... they didn't start campaigning the day after they were elected!!
I forgot something Very important --- politicians could only spend a certain amount of money -- none of this billions of dollars stuff -- that money could do so much good in the world!
I've been saying for a long time that it's time to take the money out of politics. If this was done we wouldn't be where we are in the new year coming up. "HE" would have had NOTHING of merit to run on. There have been a few politicians that have tried to instill "Campaign Finance Reform" but they were always shutdown. My thought is the more money that gets donated represents the more favors you do for me in the corporate world and the lobbying world too. It's what has caused loads of corruption in politics over the past few years (including 2016, 2020 and 2024)! It's the reason J6 happened, and all the lies and misinformation and ugly slanderous ads we saw during this years campaign!
Include women's rights to reproductive health care without governmental interference and then I'll be happy to join the team. And free tacos is not a bad idea either!
Abolish the Electoral College. One person, one vote, and EVERY STATE COUNTS. Limit primary campaigns to 3 months and general election campaigns to 5 months. Expand the Supreme Court to match the number of Circuit/Appellate court district, currently 13. Also establish term limits, enforceable ethics rules and have candidates brought forward through each district's lawyers, jurists and citizen commissions, non partisan.
3 month primaries and 5 months of general campaigning? While it's shorter than our never ending election cycle how about 2 months of general campaigning after 2 months of primaries? If you cannot get your message out and understood in 4 months then do we really need such a poor communicator representing us?
Also, let's hear it for ranked choice voting to go along with that one person, one vote thing? That way more than 2 people can run (eliminate the "lesser of two evils" thing. and eliminate 1 or 2% of the entire population calling the election for the other 48 or 49%.
You used "public fact checking" like we don't have an institution for this called public libraries. We just need to fund them, protect them, and staff them with librarians. I'm always so sad when someone tells me how shocked they are that librarians have Masters degrees in Library and Information Science.
I would say if a strong investment in libraries was made, along the lines of what Andrew Carnegie did back in the late 1800s, the general public would be more educated, and therefore, less misinformation and fact checking would be needed. The nation as a whole would know how to find and look for credible sources. I hate that I have to teach classes to students on Disinformation and fake news. Having said that, it might be wise to do as you said above, only make it a basic education class in school.
Let's don't forget how lazy too many people are about the quality of information they consume. Unfortunately, far too many folks are way to easily duped.
And people need to use them! I was amazed at the lack of understanding about tariffs and project 2025. It’s all right there in that computer we all carry around in our hands. Yet people were too lazy to use even that to find the facts. Doubtful they’ll go to a library, tho I love libraries!
When was the last time you saw something in the public libraries that wasn't ten years out of date? I have a strong emotional connection to libraries, and would like to see them expanded, but it isn't going to help much in the fact checking department.
All minimum wage proposals seem to contain one glaring fault. They say nothing about retired folks. When I retired in 2016 I thought my retirement income was excellent. I worked for 45 years and many of them were lean but the last 15 years were quite good. My retirement income was about 1/3 what I made when working but today my retirement income is only equal to the current minimum wage, so in real terms of buying power I have lost 30%. (note my retirement is gov. funded not an investment account)
My husband retired from public school teaching in 1999 (he turned 65 right after school ended the year). While his retirement is State Teachers' Retirement, it's COLAs are determined, in part, by investment performance. But COLA's rarely keep up with inflation. If it weren't for Fuel Assistance and occasional use of the Food Bank, we'd be in really touch shape instead of poor shape. Of course, the current administration will eliminate grants for Fuel Assistance and we can forget federal help (or federal cheese) for the food banks.
All sounds good to me! Only things I would add is illimitation of semi-auto weapons, no ghost guns and a SOLID system of background checking for gun purchases. Amen! Awomen!
To the housing initiative please add getting rid of (or limiting) Air BnB's particularly in small communities. I'm an hour away from Yosemite National Park and housing in small communities near this park is a nightmare. Folks have no place to live because homes, apartments even mobile homes have been turned into Air BnB's. It's a tragedy. Same thing in coastal towns. They really drive up cost of homes and long-term rentals as well.
Amen!!!!! God, you always have the best ideas!!! Can we add term limits for house and senate members too? And also if anyone has any convictions (felonies or misdemeanors) on their record, they are automatically banned from running for any official position in government? Pretty please?
I would also add a salary cap on all federally elected officials. They cannot make more than a certain amount, not nor can they have more than a capped amount in assets. You want to rule the 98% of this country? You need to live like us. Also, I know the plan addresses healthcare, but I've never understood why those serving in Congress get free healthcare. Most of them are so rich they've never had to make a tough decision such as not being able to take off work for a medical procedure or unable to have a necessary medical procedure because they can't afford it.
Amen! to the cap on Congress members wages while serving in office. If these positions were more focused as service to their State and Nation I believe we'd get better candidates in office.
If I missed anything, please just let me know and I will update. There is seriously so much to fix, but we have great ideas.
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being". - Albert Camus
Childcare
32 hour workweek
Access to healthy food, school lunch
Drug rehab
Streamlined immigration
Mental health services
Redesign cities for climate change, walking and spending time outdoors
Replace common core with research backed pedagogy and developmental milestones including expanding cause-effect, analytical thinking and problem solving, civics and communication.
Retirement is not employer based but a national system.
Classes and support groups for parents (evenings at local elementary schools?) including math, literacy, executive functioning, child development and communication.
Expand funds for music education, art, bilingual education and creative pursuits.
Reduce prison populations through rehab programs, educational prevention, mentor programs for youth, and elimination of private prisons.
Strengthen unions and rights of workers.
Oh! I like your retirement idea.
I'd include in- home care covered for seniors and disabled. And temporary nanny help after a birth.
I live in Switzerland we get both. Professional counselors help after birth during 4 years (until school starts).
Same with retirement national plan. And maternity leave national plan. Actually parental leave, dads also get some time off work with their newborn.
Sounds like a wonderfully supportive community. The way life is supposed to be. ❤️
I like the expansion of funding for Arts, Music, Bilingual Education and Creative Pursuits!
You need to add cults (source: Dr. Steven Hassan). First, it needs to be illegal for cult leaders to run for president of the U.S. Second, Psych Education must be mandatory for all, so everyone can identify and resist cults.
And a massive cult deprogramming department.
Jihadi Rehab.
Dear lady, your ends are beautiful but I fear your means. Mandatory and Forbidden are words to be feared in the hand holding Power. Can we come together to discern more deeply the lure of the cults to which you refer, the needs which people are seeking to fill in hazarding into them, and the ways we can work together to help each other identify cults and the alternatives for getting those needs met?
There is a lot of good to be had as a starting place for discernment in that oldie but goodie, the ABCDEF https://www.neopagan.net/ABCDEF.html
ADDED: A Bonewitz(Isaac) Cult Danger Evaluation Form
Agreed. I'm not in favor of mandates either. Governmental control of personal lives is unpopular with the majority of Americans.
"Dear LADY"???
Oh yes, financial control over so called religious groups !
I’d settle for taxing any church with more than a specified number of members. (500?)
By "church" do you mean a local, physical site (building) or do you mean a movement (belief system or movement)?
By “church” I mean a physical site. Movements/ belief systems without any solid base would be difficult to locate and pin down, let alone tax. But if you have a group that meets regularly (even in borrowed space), then you have to pay taxes.
If they complain that it's socialism just remind them that getting the services you paid for when you paid your taxes is the most capitalist thing imaginable
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Funny enough, I've been saying to friends & family for months that we need to do something similar to FDR’s New Deal. But instead of using the taxes from the rich to build bridges & roads, why not use the money to improve the environment? Build bike paths, build safe and green bridges for wildlife, plant trees, clean up our oceans/rivers/ponds/etc, etc. Essentially, build a future.
Build neighborhood green spaces for access to fresh vegetables. I'm all for trees ordinarily, but we have a ton of food deserts, especially in urban environments that could benefit from access to food gardens. Cities with wooded parks could include fruit and nut trees to the non-food trees already there. Whatever hardy type that will grow in the climate.
Hey big guy, you missed a couple of things:
- Dismantle the carceral state. Eliminate private prisons. Add attorney representation to the rights of the accused; do not allow states to abrogate the assignment of attorney representation in any way and restore public defenders in all criminal cases. Incentivize carceral alternatives for non-violent or low-level offenders, i.e. instead of remanding to prison, require convicts to report to skilling programs to obtain certification in skilled work, then complete their parole as a probationary period performing skilled public service.
- Legalize marijuana at the federal level. Expunge criminal convictions for marijuana. Provide restitution to victims of the war on drugs in the form of expedited, preferential, early, etc. access to industry licensure.
- Expunge convictions of prostitution, seal records, and re-identify as victims of trafficking.
- Adopt the ERA, make it enforceable, and establish an agency for its enforcement.
- Establish an Department of Public Good and give it oversight of offices including the US Office of Color of Law, task it to spin up state- and local-level counterparts across the country. Anywhere a DA is an elected offcial, there must be a counterpart dedicated to protecting the rights of the individual and the rights of the public by prosecuting infringement of constitutional rights as criminal offenses, as per felony color of law, etc. and related criminal offenses, for any official found to have infringed up on the constitutional rights of either the individual citizen or against the public good.
- Make the immigration process uniform and end policies and practices that are bespoke according to country of origin. Formalize the naturalization conclusion for DACA recipients. Re-establish military service as an immigration pathway. Create policy that extends some degree of legal status or residency options from citizen family members to non-citizen family members.
I'm fully supporting the positive advocacy focus to this rebellion. It's a new age and past methods of change won't be as effective as they've been in the past imo. As long as we look at both sides of each suggestion you've presented, to keep the big picture in view, I believe it will gain continued support. I would like to add to your list; that no position of State or Federal government made be held by an individual convicted of a felony. I'm sure I'll have more to add at another time. Great work GOD!!
Um, Separation of Church and State?
Yes, you forgot gerrymandering and voter supression! Ixnay on a tiny neighborhood of bigots and jerks overturning the votes of the district!
And while we are at it, f the electoral college! They are responsible for Trump 1.0 and George W.
Under the 20 hours gun training, add basic physics and strength of materials. How many homes would a bullet travel through in say, an apartment vs a block of houses.
I believe. But put public education at the top. And stop taxpayers from subsidizing private schools. They’re places of indoctrination
This is not meant to be in any particular order. I will remove the numbering.
Dear God, I was not referring to your impeccable numbering. The point I was trying to make was public education is being strangled and there will be no critical thinking taught in religious based schools. To my knowledge almost all private schools in Indiana are Christian based. Love you and your amazing son who is also you. Keep up your wonderful work keeping us from jumping off the curb. Barbara from Indiana
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Amen!! and I'd add health insurance for all. When I lived in Canada I paid $56 a month for insurance and it covered everything, even 12 massages, visits to a counselor, etc.
Under voting rights, I would also follow what I experienced in Canada -- an election was called, and politicians had only 90 days to get people to vote for them ... they didn't start campaigning the day after they were elected!!
Thanks God!
Healthcare for all is on the list!
I forgot something Very important --- politicians could only spend a certain amount of money -- none of this billions of dollars stuff -- that money could do so much good in the world!
it’s on the list! 😊
I've been saying for a long time that it's time to take the money out of politics. If this was done we wouldn't be where we are in the new year coming up. "HE" would have had NOTHING of merit to run on. There have been a few politicians that have tried to instill "Campaign Finance Reform" but they were always shutdown. My thought is the more money that gets donated represents the more favors you do for me in the corporate world and the lobbying world too. It's what has caused loads of corruption in politics over the past few years (including 2016, 2020 and 2024)! It's the reason J6 happened, and all the lies and misinformation and ugly slanderous ads we saw during this years campaign!
Include women's rights to reproductive health care without governmental interference and then I'll be happy to join the team. And free tacos is not a bad idea either!
I thought that was a glaring omission by god
I think God put women’s rights and healthcare at the top of the list (or at least close to the top). Maybe you missed it?
Abolish the Electoral College. One person, one vote, and EVERY STATE COUNTS. Limit primary campaigns to 3 months and general election campaigns to 5 months. Expand the Supreme Court to match the number of Circuit/Appellate court district, currently 13. Also establish term limits, enforceable ethics rules and have candidates brought forward through each district's lawyers, jurists and citizen commissions, non partisan.
ABSOLUTELY!
3 month primaries and 5 months of general campaigning? While it's shorter than our never ending election cycle how about 2 months of general campaigning after 2 months of primaries? If you cannot get your message out and understood in 4 months then do we really need such a poor communicator representing us?
Also, let's hear it for ranked choice voting to go along with that one person, one vote thing? That way more than 2 people can run (eliminate the "lesser of two evils" thing. and eliminate 1 or 2% of the entire population calling the election for the other 48 or 49%.
Amen!!
Expand the Supreme Court. Overturn this immunity crap. We the humans should have some say on the nominations.
and term limits for those judges, 12 years?
Be careful what you wish for.
Exactly...have to play the devil's advocate side to be prudent
Elie Mystal has an excellent suggestion about how (and why) to do this in his book Allow Me To Retort. https://www.unabridgedbookstore.com/book/9781620977637
You used "public fact checking" like we don't have an institution for this called public libraries. We just need to fund them, protect them, and staff them with librarians. I'm always so sad when someone tells me how shocked they are that librarians have Masters degrees in Library and Information Science.
Yes but something more ambitious is needed. Libraries are not enough for what we use correct.
I would say if a strong investment in libraries was made, along the lines of what Andrew Carnegie did back in the late 1800s, the general public would be more educated, and therefore, less misinformation and fact checking would be needed. The nation as a whole would know how to find and look for credible sources. I hate that I have to teach classes to students on Disinformation and fake news. Having said that, it might be wise to do as you said above, only make it a basic education class in school.
Let's don't forget how lazy too many people are about the quality of information they consume. Unfortunately, far too many folks are way to easily duped.
And people need to use them! I was amazed at the lack of understanding about tariffs and project 2025. It’s all right there in that computer we all carry around in our hands. Yet people were too lazy to use even that to find the facts. Doubtful they’ll go to a library, tho I love libraries!
When was the last time you saw something in the public libraries that wasn't ten years out of date? I have a strong emotional connection to libraries, and would like to see them expanded, but it isn't going to help much in the fact checking department.
I disagree, the libraries in my county are up to date and awesome! I'm sorry yours isn't but that can be improved
All minimum wage proposals seem to contain one glaring fault. They say nothing about retired folks. When I retired in 2016 I thought my retirement income was excellent. I worked for 45 years and many of them were lean but the last 15 years were quite good. My retirement income was about 1/3 what I made when working but today my retirement income is only equal to the current minimum wage, so in real terms of buying power I have lost 30%. (note my retirement is gov. funded not an investment account)
My husband retired from public school teaching in 1999 (he turned 65 right after school ended the year). While his retirement is State Teachers' Retirement, it's COLAs are determined, in part, by investment performance. But COLA's rarely keep up with inflation. If it weren't for Fuel Assistance and occasional use of the Food Bank, we'd be in really touch shape instead of poor shape. Of course, the current administration will eliminate grants for Fuel Assistance and we can forget federal help (or federal cheese) for the food banks.
When is the first meeting and where do we begin?
Yes when and where. I am in
Women's reproductive healthcare rights should be on this list. Bring back Roe and codify it.
We need better than Roe, the Gov't should have no say.
Shockingly, Roe v Wade's primary premise was that the federal government should have a say, and that the state governments aren't allowed to block it.
All sounds good to me! Only things I would add is illimitation of semi-auto weapons, no ghost guns and a SOLID system of background checking for gun purchases. Amen! Awomen!
To the housing initiative please add getting rid of (or limiting) Air BnB's particularly in small communities. I'm an hour away from Yosemite National Park and housing in small communities near this park is a nightmare. Folks have no place to live because homes, apartments even mobile homes have been turned into Air BnB's. It's a tragedy. Same thing in coastal towns. They really drive up cost of homes and long-term rentals as well.
Exactly! We are fighting Short Term Rentals (STR) in Albany, NY neighborhoods!
That seems to be a state, not federal issue. Start lobbying your state Representatives.
Amen! And while we’re protecting libraries and books, let’s make sure people can read!
Amen!!!!! God, you always have the best ideas!!! Can we add term limits for house and senate members too? And also if anyone has any convictions (felonies or misdemeanors) on their record, they are automatically banned from running for any official position in government? Pretty please?
The fact that a convicted felon can run for President in this country is mind-boggling!! I also agree that term limits are desperately needed.
I disagree with misdemeanors as disqualifying
I would also add a salary cap on all federally elected officials. They cannot make more than a certain amount, not nor can they have more than a capped amount in assets. You want to rule the 98% of this country? You need to live like us. Also, I know the plan addresses healthcare, but I've never understood why those serving in Congress get free healthcare. Most of them are so rich they've never had to make a tough decision such as not being able to take off work for a medical procedure or unable to have a necessary medical procedure because they can't afford it.
Also, tax the fuck out of churches.
Make congressional salaries dependent on the minimum wage (say, 2x or 3x the minimum wage).
Yes!
Amen! to the cap on Congress members wages while serving in office. If these positions were more focused as service to their State and Nation I believe we'd get better candidates in office.
We also need to make it clear that freedom of speech does not include hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation. Propaganda must be illegal.
That which is intended to harm, destroy or control the people is not for the betterment of the people.