{"article":{"id":266552,"heading":"Individual Democrats can adapt to Republican majority","author":"Eric Matteson","created":"2014-11-06 22:51:11","modified":"2014-11-06 22:51:11","last_modified":"Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:51:11","article":"

Individual democrats can succeed even with a Republican majority.

In response to the trajic loss Democrats have suffered in 2014 I have come

up with this bipartisan plan to move forward after the 2014 election.

1 ) Pass an all volunteer jury system. Volunteers choose a courthouse and

starting week. volunteers who show up at that courthouse and starting week

are then selected at random for individual trials among several courtrooms

within that courthouse. Getting rid of the jury summons will stabilize

workplaces after skilled workers are no longer drafted away from important

work at bad times to serve on juries.

Volunteers who volunteer for jury duty will pay more attention to the

facts of each case and provide verdicts that are more accurate than

drafted jurors. An all volunteer jury system is all that is needed to

implement tort reform.

2 ) Repeal the healthcare reform law of 2010. For every person who has

gained insurance there are over 10 people who have LOST THEIR DOCTOR!!!!!

Even during the 2013 repeal effort some Democrats joined with Republicans

to vote to repeal the heathcare law. During the earlier repeal effort

before 2014 the number of house DEMOCRATS that voted to repeal the

healthcare law was EVEN LARGER than the number of senate Republicans

who voted to repeal the healthcare law before 2014.

All house DEMOCRATS still have a good reason to vote to repeal

the healthcare reform law of 2010.

a ) The individual mandate is written with a minimum fine of $695.00

so poor people have to PAY a higher percentage of income than rich people

in order to pay either a mandatory premium or fine.

b ) The reimbursement rate for doctors is too low for doctors to stay in

business. If the healthcare reform law is not repealed before the end

of spring 2015 over 200,000 doctors have pledged to QUIT!!!!

c ) You do not get to keep your DOCTOR!!

d ) You do not get to keep your employer provided insurance plan!

e ) Premiums and deductibles are much higher with healthcare reform

than without it.

f ) Many senior citizens who live in states that have a health

insurance exchange established by the state will lose both their

MEDICARE and MEDICAID and be shoved into a HMO that is not as good

as what they had before. Some of those Seniors are planning on asking their

legislators to convert their state to switch to the federal health insurance

exchange so both medicare and origonal medicaid can be reinstated for them.

.

Republican leaders have pledged to avoid the politically unpopular

step of defaulting on the national debt and shutting down the entire

government because OTHER HOSTAGES HAVE BEEN FOUND!!

Student financial aid for Fall 2015 WILL BE DELAYED until the healthcare

reform law of 2010 is COMPLETELY REPEALED!!!!

U.S. military funding including VA funding

will not be increased until the healthcare

reform law of 2010 is repealed.

....

There will be a full repeal vote to repeal the entire healthcare law of

2010. Members of BOTH political parties need to support that vote and get

the healthcare law repealed. Failure to acheive a 2\/3 supermajority vote

on the second ballot will trigger cuts to parts of the healthcare law.

....

If there are not enough votes to repeal the entire healthcare law

then there will be a vote to repeal the entire individual mandate.

If that VOTE fails then the individual mandate will be modified to become

more fair to poor people by replacing the fine of $695.00 plus 2.5%

of income with a smaller TAX of just 1% of the AMOUNT OVER $250,000.00

of annual income to reinstate the promise of only increasing taxes on

those earning over $250,000.00 per year. The minimum fine of $695.00

will be abolished.

If that vote fails military funding will not be increased and all remaining

student financial aid will be dalayed until the individual mandate

is made less severe. Make the individual mandate less severe by replacing

the $695.00 + 2.5% fine with a smaller tax of only 1% of the amount over

$250,000.00 annual income so military funding can be increased including

the military funding that is used to pay for treating Veterans at the

VA hospital. Injured veterans are waiting for a healthcare reform law

repeal. Students are also waiting for a healthcare reform law repeal.

....

3 ) Republicans want energy. Energy can come from natural gas or oil or

coal or solar power.

Solar power is the cleanest energy available. the experimental IVANPAH

solar power plant has suceeded in generating as much power as it can with

its very small land area. Both political parties need to agree to cover

the rest of undeveloped desert land in the United States with solar power

collectors so the United States can be fully powered with clean solar

power all day long.

In the daytime clean solar power can be used to desalinate seawater

and pump that water uphill to the reservoir behind the highest dam.

Additional electrical generators will have to be added to each dam

because each reservoir will only have to provide power at night because

it is the solar power plants responsibility to generate ALL DAYTIME power!!

Each Dam will then provide twice as much power at night as before

so less COAL will have to be burned.

Solar power is the only clean energy available. Failure to build the

additional solar power plants in the desert will result in new COAL

power plants being built in every obstructionist congressional district!

Chinese scientists have discovered that COAL IS CHEAPER than natural gas

or oil for generating electricity!! Those politicians who do not like coal

should cooperate fully with solar power exapansion!!

....

4 ) Both political parties might be able to agree that we in the U.S.

should have OUR OWN large areospace planes to get to orbit with instead

of relying on the Russians to get astronauts to the International Space

Station. In the 1960s both political parties supported the Apollo 11 moon

mission and advanced algebra in High School to prepare students for space.

....

5 ) Reform student financial aid. Get rid of student loans entirely.

Require all students to pass a high school level algebra exam like

a high school exit exam before applying for student financial aid.

All students must complete the equivelent of the second year of

algebra in high school before applying for student financial aid.

Do not require students to repay grants. Abolish all student loans.

....

There is a lot that both political parties can agree on so the Republican win

in 2014 does not have to be the end of hope.

ericmatteson2001@yahoo.com<\/a>

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