Our Thought Provoking Ideas On Issues
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Jobs & Economy
- There is a need to improve stagnant wages and get people away from living on the financial edge
- Improve the quality of life of American Middle Class
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- CSR initiative by private sector for retraining in jobs and helping existing workforce in transitioning
- Encourage migration program for purpose of education
- Find innovative ways to re-skill existing labor force and more importantly help next generations to acquire more marketable and sustainable skills through more innovative approaches in education and having global outlook
- Encourage more vocational training which is marketable in the new economy
- Expanding jobs locally through investments
- Creating ecosystem of improving wages by creating opportunity in the systems
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Campaign Finance Reform
- There is need to limit influence of money in campaign and eventually policy making
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- Create and Sustain 2 or 3 Large/Big Financial Institution and break-up the rest to manageable levels of influence
- Subject the 2 or 3 large FI to regulation and scrutiny of a micro level for operations
- Improve Tranparency, control and governance of Bigger Corporations and if they are too big to fail, there should be a price they pay for it
- Have a BiPartisan Committee and a Autonomous private solutions as well as Audit body for using Tax-payer money for financing Bigger Corps and Lobbying Groups
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Security
- Cyber Security, Border Security, Intermal Security
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- Senate approved framework to decide what constitute as violation, information sharing between different agencies operating under homeland security and other bodies with the purpose detecting and thwarting cyber attacks and real world attacks, increasing role of use social media and mobility by criminal elements vis-a-vis increase security and difficulty of obtaining information from mobile devices, more background checks)
- federal and state compliance framework and audit watchdog, Edward Snowdens, creating a body at federal level with inclusive participation; resolving conflict of interests with the purpose of improving internal security and improving non-intrusive surveillance
- porous borders of Canada and Mexico and need to control inflow of illegal immigration and also through background checks before allowing legal immigration especially through land and sea ports
- monitoring rise of cyber currency like bitcoin and use of it by terrorist groups especially which allow them to circumvent financial sanctions of governments
- more background checks in general and specifically before acquiring guns, and allowing use of advanced gun technology which
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Immigration
- Illegal workers and Undocumented immigrants pose a threat to Amrica as well as help in low-dignity jobs needed in America
- The family angle of uniting families by legalising immigrants and encouraging immigration since America is a nation of immigrants
- Helping talent migrate to America so that it can thrive and prosper and create jobs
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- Create points based, background check based, some scientific method, which is vast improvement or overhaul over current method to legalize illegal immigrants
- Low cost labor, bottom of the pyramid - should be made part of immigration policy, as it is required to fill a void in the economy and/or labour force
- Benefits received from legal immigrants - who are not yet green card holders or naturalized citizens Use the corpus of taxes being collected, visa fees being charged, etc , should be used to settle immigrants coming to the country
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Climate Change
- Global Warming
- Erratic Monsoons
- Depleting Natural Resources
- Changing and/or reducing habitable condition and habitat
Constraints:
- Keep economy moving and growing
- Allocate sufficient R&D funds to green initiatives
- Achieve commitment made by US government to WTO
- Make the renewable products affordable
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- Create a transition plan for fossil fuel based industries and jobs to move to alternative industries and jobs while promoting renewable energy
- Sustain economic growth while transition is in place
- Promote and adhere stricter pollution control norms specifically for vehicular emission
- Support green real estate development initiatives - significantly lesser carbon footprint throughout the development life cycles for upcoming real estate developments of all types
- Use success of green real estate to promote conversion for existing real estate to green norms
- Set achievable goal for US to cut carbon emission by x%
- Create execution plan and policies to achieve targets and lead by example (if a developed economy like US can achieve then it is definitely possible for emerging markets)
- Achieve carbon emission reduction while achieving growth and sustaining and reducing unemployment and higher wages
- Lead efforts to promote non-polluting vehicles standards - better than Euro Standards
- Create a roadmap for greener planet, conservation of natural resources (?)
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Terrorism
- Global Enemy
- Not a Conventional War
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- Address symptioms and root cause at the same time (Reach out to leaders and people for peace; espeically marginalised and under-privileged communities/nations)
- Create a global platform for uniting nations and communitites for the cause
- US alongwith Allies should lead the effort
- Make the problem a part of the solution
- Acknowledge the issue rather lice in denial
- Bridge social equity and financial equity thru capitalism
- Unify religions through faiths and cults(by focussing on what unites us rather than what divides us)
- CSR and similar methods of funding
- Spread awareness and campaign for full particiaption
- Acknowledge a multi-polar world (There is one world or none)
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Intl Trade
- Dynamic and changing equations globally
- Need to retain and create jobs for economy
- Need to maintain the process forward for globalization for millenials
- Need to maintain allies created through globalization
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- Monetization of US resources
- Managing conflicting interests and priorities at WTO, especailly EM
- Policy and Stance for EU and UK in the recvised scenario
- Containing the influence of China through bilaterial exchange
- Managing the rise of Russia through better equations and global partnership
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