Presidential candidates go beyond the two-party system
Russell Darin Brittany-Bacha
Issue date: 11/8/04 Section: Opinion
His professional career has been in Software programming, systems administration and training in technology. He was an instructor with the American Red Cross from 1972-1982 and a scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America from 1982-1997.
THE ECONOMY
NADER supports: raising minimum wage to a living wage; local labor-intensive public works; increasing taxes on undesirable or unhealthy conditions and behaviors; decreasing taxes on basic necessities; ending poverty and near-poverty; redirecting funding from military programs toward public work projects, sustainable energy, etc.
COBB supports: shifting funds from the military-industrial complex, towards solving public issues; shifting business philosophies from profit-centric mega-corporations, toward community oriented institutions that emphasize the needs, rights and values of individuals and communities at least as much as profits; raising minimum wage to a living wage; bilateral fair trade agreements; withdrawing from NAFTA, CAFTA and similar trade agreements.
BADNARIK supports: governmental de-regulation; ensuring a balanced budget; ending deficit spending.
HOMELAND / NATIONAL SECURITY, JUSTICE AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
NADER supports: foreign policies promoting global security, peace, arms control and an end to nuclear weapons; expanding the fight on disease, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, deforestation; promoting peace, labor standards and democratic institutions; strengthening consumer protection laws; increasing civil rights to pursue legal action on economic grievances and wrongful injuries; expanding tort system to internalize the costs of misconduct; increasing safety standards; repealing the Patriot Act and similar legislation.
COBB supports: foreign policies promoting non-violence, cooperation, diplomacy, respect for the democratic process and the protection of human rights and the environment; ending dependence on foreign oil and support of repressive governments; reducing military bases abroad; ending U.S. support of Israel's occupation; repealing the Patriot Act; protecting reproductive rights; ensuring marriage equality for lesbians and gays; enforcing treaties with Native American nations; overhauling the criminal justice system to address racism and class bias; developing a more humane criminal sanction system; ending private, for-profit prison systems.
THE ECONOMY
NADER supports: raising minimum wage to a living wage; local labor-intensive public works; increasing taxes on undesirable or unhealthy conditions and behaviors; decreasing taxes on basic necessities; ending poverty and near-poverty; redirecting funding from military programs toward public work projects, sustainable energy, etc.
COBB supports: shifting funds from the military-industrial complex, towards solving public issues; shifting business philosophies from profit-centric mega-corporations, toward community oriented institutions that emphasize the needs, rights and values of individuals and communities at least as much as profits; raising minimum wage to a living wage; bilateral fair trade agreements; withdrawing from NAFTA, CAFTA and similar trade agreements.
BADNARIK supports: governmental de-regulation; ensuring a balanced budget; ending deficit spending.
HOMELAND / NATIONAL SECURITY, JUSTICE AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
NADER supports: foreign policies promoting global security, peace, arms control and an end to nuclear weapons; expanding the fight on disease, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, deforestation; promoting peace, labor standards and democratic institutions; strengthening consumer protection laws; increasing civil rights to pursue legal action on economic grievances and wrongful injuries; expanding tort system to internalize the costs of misconduct; increasing safety standards; repealing the Patriot Act and similar legislation.
COBB supports: foreign policies promoting non-violence, cooperation, diplomacy, respect for the democratic process and the protection of human rights and the environment; ending dependence on foreign oil and support of repressive governments; reducing military bases abroad; ending U.S. support of Israel's occupation; repealing the Patriot Act; protecting reproductive rights; ensuring marriage equality for lesbians and gays; enforcing treaties with Native American nations; overhauling the criminal justice system to address racism and class bias; developing a more humane criminal sanction system; ending private, for-profit prison systems.