solutions for the current crisis
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1. microscopic tax on nanosecond trading...
i.e. .001% on stock trades that are traded again with 2 days.
(all this nanosecond trading does is to make the market more volatile, and multiply the commissions of banks, and pay the salaries of math whizzes who SHOULD be inventing alternative energy sources, but are busy manipulating the stock market because they have to pay back their student loans.. I know 2 guys who do this shit, they're both brilliant... they should have been physicists instead of stock market math whizzes)2. impartial redistricting of congressional seats, so that we don't have situations where a district is full of same-believers and the congressman/woman never has any viable opposition except from the extremes, where they have to keep becoming more and more ideological, not less.....
3. Repeal "citizens united" the supreme court decision that allows essentially untrackable and unlimited spending by outside groups such as the way the Koch brothers are funding the Tea Party without many people knowing what's really happening.
4.Figure out how to prevent the Republicans from playing "heads - I win, Tails - you lose" ... i.e. their strategists probably actually agree that Obama's job creation plans may work, so they do everything they can to stop them in order to keep unemployment high and make sure he loses the next election... it's an odd vote of confidence most people don't get....