http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/occupy_movement_offers_up_the_99_declaration

I) where does one go to volunteer to be a delegate?

1) "It has been estimated that 94% of all federal political campaigns are won by the candidate who spends the most money on the campaign."
"Through their exclusive control of politicians, the incomes of the top 1% have increased 275% since 1979 while most other salaries have remained virtually flat or declined."
Are there any citations for where this info came from?

2) Completely agreed

3) "The 99% of the American People demand the immediate prohibition of special benefits to all federal elected officials, public employees, officers, public servants, officials or their immediate family members including a corrupt “revolving door” in and out of our government."
Please reword to specify only those in regulatory positions. The retail establishment I work in has discounts for teachers and military and ex-military personnel. Not only would we lose business from taking away their discounts, but I personally believe that they deserve those discounts.
I also understand that places like Waffle House offer discounts to police officers, and while we have seen many examples of police brutality since September, the majority of police officers really are there because they want to serve and protect.

4) Clarification: Is this limitation of terms per district or is it a limitation of terms in their life?

5) That works for me.... It might actually be easier to go with the Fair Tax than trying to rewrite existing code to eliminate the loopholes, though.

6) YES!

7) This needs to be more specific. I agree completely that there needs to be better environmental regulation, but it will be hard to write this without loopholes.

8) This was entirely too vague. Name specific things to be cut, or this isn't anymore helpful than the national debt committee.

9) I'm not sure how I feel about this. I think this would be a great thing for those who are on unemployment or similar, so that they're earning the money, but just putting people in jobs for the sake of putting people in jobs is only going to create more national debt.

10) Yes on reducing the interest rates, no on deferring it through unemployment. Just because they can't find a job in their field does not mean they can't flip burgers at McDonalds. That said, minimum payments should be halved between the time the Student graduates until such time as the Student finds a job in their field. Only the first one (excluding unpaid internships). Otherwise people may quit their jobs for others in order to lower their payments.... It probably should also not apply to art degrees. My fiance has a film degree, and he still isn't "in his field" after 4 years, but just having a degree has meant being at a higher paygrade at other jobs. I can easily see someone choosing the "fun" degree for the marginal pay increase in order to have smaller Student Loan bills.

11) I agree with making it easier to get into our country legally, but I do think that illegal immigrants should be deported, and those caught multiple times should have harsher punishments. Our country was founded on immigration, but when my ancestors came over, they were not Irishmen anymore. They were Americans and proud of it. If, as an immigrant, you still claim allegiance to your homecountry, you don't need to be here.

12) Agreed. If we want to have a presence there it can be a political presence in the form of an Embassy. We should not be occupying other sovereign countries.

13) What constitutes "merit performance?" How do we measure that? If it's based on test scores, the tests will just get easier. I do agree that teachers should be paid as well in public schools as in private.

14) YES

15) "and end clearly identified unfair trade practices." Please identify them.

16) YES!

17) Yes. I also believe that previously foreclosed homes that have not already been sold should be offered back to the previous owners with the new interest rate instated retroactively.

18) You can't do 17 and 18. They are mutually exclusive.

19) YES to abolishing the Electoral College.
No to "issuance of free voter registration cards to all citizens who are eligible to vote so that they cannot be turned away at a polling station because they do not have a driver’s license or other form of identification; a review of the exclusion of voters with non-violent criminal records, and expanding the option of mail-in ballots and verifiable internet voting." It would make it entirely to easy to "rig" an election. I'm ok with being able to vote without a registration card at your local polling place if you have federal id showing your address, but only if there is a national database that tracks who has already voted so that someone can't vote in one place with their drivers licence, and then in another with a passport that has an address they no longer live at, etc.

20) Yes and no.... needs to be less specific. The war in Afganistan is not the only one we need to bring back troops from... I actually wouldn't mind having it set up that no more than 100 combat troops can be deployed in any one country unless we are at war with that country (or are fighting on their behalf as their allies). That way we don't have anymore press conferences about, for instance, ending the war in Iraq, and then keeping the troops there. If a war is over, it's over. (Personally the war in Iraq was more offensive to me than the war with Afganistan. At least with that one we were actually attacked by people in Afganistan.)

21) AGREED!

22) I will actually move out of this country if SOPA or PIPA are passed. When you take away the right to free speech, it isn't the United States of America anymore.

V) ...and I will run. (might not be elected by you guys, but I have ideas)

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(Dec 06, 2011/Nice Work, OWS/Comment #5) Agreed on all points.

(Dec 06, 2011/obelisk/Comment #7) On one hand, I can understand being jaded, but on the other, how can it if we don't all work for it?

(Dec 06, 2011 Elizabeth Thatcher/Comment #16) Agreed on all points. In the last decade or so, parents stopped taking accountability for anything their children do, from chewing on toys in stores without buying them, to failing thier classes. Teachers, while definitley instrumental to a child's upbringing are not their parents, and should not be held solely responsible.

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