Gary Null's Response to President Obama's State of the Union Address

RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA’S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

1. Reinstate The Glass-Steagall Act.
2. Ban trading in commodities that are necessary to life:  Food, land, and water.
3. Stop trading in credit default swaps and derivatives.
4. Stop the Federal Reserve from giving any more no-interest loans to banks and corporations.
5. Declare a moratorium on home foreclosures.
6. Create a national food program to see that the 16 million hungry children in the US are fed.
7. De-ghettoize America’s program of food distribution, bypassing corporations and working directly with communities.
8. Create a program of reforestation, employing the youth to plant trees and hedge rows, and using skilled workers to repair bridges, levies, waterways and gas mains.
9. Forgive all student late fees and cap all interest on student loans at 1%.
10. Repeal the laws that prevent student loan holders from declaring bankruptcy.
11. Support senior citizens with free community hospital service and food coops.
12. Offer small businesses zero-interest loans with no repayment for 2 years providing that for each $1 million up to $5 million earned, the business hire 5 employees at a living wage of at least $20/hour.
13. Close and decommission all nuclear plants and shift investment to support geothermal, solar, and wind energy.
14. Ban all private funding of any election – take corporate money out of politics.
15. Demilitarize our forces around the world and close military bases.
16. Cease gas hydrofracking and all offshore drilling.
17. Audit the Federal Reserve, the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and the CIA, reducing their budgets to what is actually necessary to protect America.
18. Allow all corporations that cannot be maintained to go through structured bankruptcy instead of a bailout.
19. Eliminate the entire income tax system.  Increase taxes on corporations with one payment and no deductions.  Institute a separate sales tax that states and cities implement.
20. Begin an independent audit of every bureaucracy in America.
21. Stop using the State Department to force Monsanto’s genetically engineered foods on other nations that we currently threaten with harm for resisting.
22. Ban lobbying from State and Federal offices.
23. Create a national health prevention program.
24. Include in every school curriculum in America a program on disease prevention.
25. Open up tent cities and halfway houses/camps for returning veterans.
26. Acknowledge the dangers of depleted uranium in all conflict zones where we use it, inform the public in those areas of danger, and begin a plan for its removal.
27. Include single payer health coverage under Medicare for the 55 million Americans who would qualify.
28. Disband the FDA, USDA, National Institutes of Health, CDC, National Institute of Aging, National Institute of Mental Health, and the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.  Replace them with independent groups of scientists and oversight by lay citizen groups where any drug or food must be proven safe prior to approval.
29. Allow no money to come from any special interest groups into any Federal agency.

  30.  Examine our failed:

War on drugs

War on poverty

War on cancer

War on aids

War on obesity

War on terror

    31. Examine the overdiagnosing and drugging of our children.