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ispeak: America's Issues
The commercial media have largely ignored the presidential candidates' positions on our nation's major issues. What do you think is at stake in the election and what issues are most important to you?
I am currently taking American History for my LAS degree. The only people who have truly lived the American ideal way of life are the white, wealthy, Angelo-Saxon, Protestant males. I think everyone else in this awesome country of ours deserves the same American ideal way of life. It is time for ALL Americans to stop discriminating against each other and learn how to work together to make this great nation better.
I hope our next leader, black or white, male or female can lead our nation to become the true definition of democracy. God Bless America!
Sheryl ClarkMedical biller
Kaleida Health
Buffalo, NY
| What is at stake is simple, the future. After the last disastrous administration, we face an economic crisis the likes of which has not been seen in this country since the 1930's. The disparity between the "haves and have-nots" is ever broadening, and it seems as though the plan is to have those of us with the least foot most of the bill. I for one would like to see logic applied to our system. Have those who actually earn/have more pay more, makes sense to me. The resources are there, we don't have to stop or even cut funding to our hospitals and nursing homes, as well as other worthwhile institutions, when there are those of us who can afford to "dig a little deeper" for the betterment of the country as a whole.
We need to stop giving breaks and free passes to media and/or real estate moguls as well and their companies. In NYC the MTA decided in spite of great public opposition to raise the fares for public transportation. They did it in such a way that those affected are pretty much only the working class. All in the guise of paying for the many improvements which were to come.Then just a few days after the new fares went into effect they announce that "due to a soft real estate market" they were unable to secure the amount of money they had originally projected. So the previously referenced improvement projects would have to be postponed "for the time being." and by the way, the fare hikes will stand as will the many passengers on an overcrowded #2 train in rush hour.
We the working class need representation that speaks for us. Who speaks up for those honest working class folks who were taken advantage of during the recently reported predatory lending fiascoes?
We need to speak for ourselves, write your elected officials, let your money speak for you and boycott those who thrive on your hard earned money but refuse to give anything back at all, organize, do the research, and for the love of the future of this great country, vote wisely! Take your children that they may see how serious it is and decide to get involved. Most of all, be good to each other. Help when it is in your power to do so. In these times when so much can and often does go wrong, a kind gesture or word can turn a person's day around. The least we can do, is be civil.
Manuel Torres Patient access representative St. Barnabas Hospital Clinic The Bronx | What we need is a social revolution. True change cannot come through the ballot box because the government is an arm of corporate interests. We can talk about increasing PAC so we funnel more money into political parties that continue to disappoint us or we can take that money and increase community organizing. We can use that money to educate the poor, the unemployed, the underemployed, immigrants, and others that our government is not a government for the people. It's a government for the rich people. We need to march hand in hand, members with non-members, for single payer healthcare, for the repeal of Taft-Hartley, for an end to all wars, for an end to anti-immigrant xenophobia, and so on. Civil rights didn't happen because we elected the right Democrat. It happened because the powerful could no longer ignore the masses in the streets demanding it. Power to workers! Down with capitalism and corporate controlled government!
Avery Mann 1199SEIU Staff New York City | It is my genuine feeling that had the media spent even half of the time that was spent on Clinton, Romney, Obama and that Old Guy, that Edwards might have had a better chance then he did. I used to watch for commercials and spots on the news, and I would never hear anything until the vote in New Hampshire. After having met Edwards twice, I was so taken by him, and he cares for all union workers. But, as Americans, we listen for the dirt! We don't care enough about the issues, we want to hear about other peoples laundry. It's a sad state and time in this country.
Denise Clark Purchaser Lynn Community Health Center Lynn, MA |
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