CSPAN Q&A 11pm EST Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate St

[tangent4ronpaul]

CSPAN Q&A 11pm EST Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate St

This is with Ralph Nader and it's really good. He's talking about his new book:

Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

http://www.amazon.com/Unstoppable-Emerging-Left-Right-Dismantle-Corporate/dp/1568584547

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[tangent4ronpaul]

25 issues where conservatives, liberals and libertarians can come together.
These are all "off the table" by the 2 parties, and i can't think of a better reason that Rand should make a lot of them his platform.

Audit the DoD annually and disclose all budgets.
Establish rigorous evaluation procedures for businesses looking for gvmt handouts. which would end most corporate welfare and bailouts.
Promote efficiency in gvmt contracting and spending.
Adjust the min wage to inflation.
Introduce specific kinds of tax reform and push to collect uncollected taxes. (targets corporations)
Break up the "too big to fail" banks
Expand contributions to charity, using them to create jobs and drawing on available dead money
Allow taxpayers the right to sue. Especially immunized governments and corporations.
Further direct democracy. Referendums, initiatives and recalls for starters.
Push community self reliance
Clear away the obstacles to a competitive electoral process.
Defend and extend civil liberties.
Enhance civic skills and experiences for students.
End unconstitutional wars and enforce article 1, sec 8 of the constitution which includes congresses exclusive role of declaring war.
Revise trade agreements to protect US sovereignty and resume congressional full discussion, ending fast track.
protect children from commercialization and it's physical and mental exploitation and harm.
end corporate personhood
Control more of the commons that we already own.
Get tough on corporate crime. providing penalties and enforcement budgets.
Ramp up investor power by strengthening investor protection laws and by creating a penny brigade to pay for an investor watchdog agency.
Oppose the patenting of life forms including human genes.
End the ineffective war on drugs.
Push for environmentalism.
reform health care.
create convergent institutions.

A poll on these items might be good here, but there are 25 of them. Bryan - wanna lift the question limit briefly.

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[tangent4ronpaul]

Starting now!

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[Occam's Banana]

This is with Ralph Nader and it's really good. He's talking about his new book:

Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

For those who are interested, there's a Pat Buchanan op-ed about the thesis of Nader's book:

A Left-Right Convergence?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/patrick-j-buchanan/left-and-right-against-war-2/
Pat Buchanan (17 May 2014)

Last summer, in this capital of gridlock, a miracle occurred.

The American people rose as one and told the government of the United States not to drag us into another Middle East war in Syria.

Barack Obama was ready to launch air and missile strikes when a national uproar forced him to go to Congress for authorization. Congress seemed receptive until some Hill offices were swarmed by phone calls and emails coming in at a rate of 100-1 against war.

Middle America stopped the government from taking us into what even the president now concedes is “somebody else’s civil war.”

This triumphal coming together of left and right was a rarity in national politics. But Ralph Nader, in “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State,” believes that ad hoc alliances of left and right to achieve common goals can, should, and, indeed, shall be our political future.

To call this an optimistic book is serious understatement.

Certainly, left and right have come together before.

[... more at link: http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/patrick-j-buchanan/left-and-right-against-war-2/ ...]