Fifteen Issues This Election is Not About

 

Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of the death penalty for federal or state crimes.

 

Neither candidate is interested in eliminating or reducing the 5,113 US nuclear warheads.

 

Neither candidate is campaigning to close Guantanamo prison.

 

Neither candidate has called for arresting and prosecuting high ranking people on Wall Street for the subprime mortgage catastrophe.

 

Neither candidate is interested in holding anyone in the Bush administration accountable for the torture committed by US personnel against prisoners in Guantanamo or in Iraq or Afghanistan.

 

Neither candidate is interested in stopping the use of drones to assassinate people in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or Somalia. 

 

Neither candidate is against warrantless surveillance, indefinite detention, or racial profiling in fighting “terrorism.”

 

Neither candidate is interested in fighting for a living wage.  In fact neither are really committed beyond lip service to raising the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour  – which, if it kept pace with inflation since the 1960s should be about $10 an hour.

 

Neither candidate was interested in arresting Osama bin Laden and having him tried in court.

 

Neither candidate will declare they refuse to bomb Iran.

 

Neither candidate is refusing to take huge campaign contributions from people and organizations.

 

Neither candidate proposes any significant specific steps to reverse global warming.

 

Neither candidate is talking about the over 2 million people in jails and prisons in the US.

 

Neither candidate proposes to create public jobs so everyone who wants to work can.

 

Neither candidate opposes the nuclear power industry.  In fact both support expansion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Jimbino]

That sounds like a communist manifesto.

As far as the minimum wage is concerned, almost no economist is interested in fighting for a "living wage," either. They all recognize that the chief effect of imposing a minimum is not the raising of the average wage, but the elimination of jobs for marginal workers. If that weren't the case, we should just raise the minimum wage to $100 an hour and make everyone rich.

Opposition nuclear power is a religion and, as such, needs to be contested through scientific argument. Neither candidate, nobody on SCOTUS, and a handful of 535 in COTUS have a clue about science, but all but one believe in God!

Corporate contributions are a free-speech matter and now declared perfectly legal. A candidate who refuses will be hobbled in his contest for public office. Just as everybody is entitled to a tax deduction whether he agrees with the tax policy or not, a candidate is entitled to take corporate contributions whether he agrees with the policy or not. Better to ask each candidate to speak out against a bad policy!

[Jimbino]

From Wikipedia on the Minimum Wage:

"Until the 1990s, economists generally agreed that raising the minimum wage reduced employment. This consensus was weakened when some well-publicized empirical studies showed the opposite, although others confirmed the original view. Today's consensus, if one exists, is that increasing the minimum wage has, at worst, minor negative effects.

According to a 1978 article in the American Economic Review, 90 percent of the economists surveyed agreed that the minimum wage increases unemployment among low-skilled workers.

A 1992 survey by published in the same journal revealed 79% of economists in agreement that a minimum wage increases unemployment among young and unskilled workers."

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