Currently, there is a diary on the rec-list right now that lists all of Obama's accomplishments. While a lot of them are to be desired, like fair pay for women, and ending the dreaded F-22 program; It's intellectually dishonest when it comes to entries like:
- Attempting to reform the nation's healthcare system which is the most expensive in the world yet leaves almost 50 million without health insurance and millions more under insured
- Has put the ball in play for comprehensive immigration reform
- Has announced his intention to push for energy reform
90.Has announced his intention to push for education reform
In that case, here are all of my "accomplishments":
- I announce my intention to: Have national health
- I announce my intention to: End the war in Iraq
- I announce my intention to: End the war on drugs
- I announce my intention to: Stop Warrantless wiretapping
- I announce my intention to: End animal cloning
- I announce my intention to: Pass anti-trust
- I announce my intention to: Close the School of the Americas
- I announce my intention to: call for an end to the U.S. occupation of the province of Guantanamo, Cuba.
- I announce my intention to: support an immediate cutoff of all U.S. military aid to Colombia, and all other recipients
10.I announce my intention to: call for an international treaty outlawing all weapons of mass destruction, including the use of depleted uranium in conventional weapons.
11.I announce my intention to: cut the military budget by 20% or more
12.I announce my intention to: End all arms sales across the globe
13.I announce my intention to: Enable right of any number of interested workers in a workplace to form a union with no limits on the subjects upon which employees and unions may bargain with employers.
14.I announce my intention to: create green jobs
16.I announce my intention to: call for a Tobin tax
17.I announce my intention to: Recognize unions through card-check
18.I announce my intention to: call for increased health and safety regulation of business, and for increasing the size and enforcement power of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
19.I announce my intention to: demand the immediate withdrawal of the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and oppose the creation of a widened Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
20.I announce my intention to: audit the Fed
21.I announce my intention to: call for the restoration of the capital gains tax and luxury tax on a progressive, graduated scale
22.I announce my intention to: form a progressive income tax
23.I announce my intention to: form a program of massive federal investment in both urban and rural areas for infrastructure reconstruction and economic development.
24.I announce my intention to: have a $12/hr. minimum wage
25.I announce my intention to: call for the end of all anti-gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBTQ) restrictions in law and the work place, the repeal of all sodomy laws, and the legalization of same-sex marriage.
26.I announce my intention to: call on all schools to adopt policies and procedures to address and prevent student violence and to ban discrimination against GLBTQ people throughout the educational system.
27.I announce my intention to: call for a federal ban on all forms of job discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
28.I announce my intention to: strongly support affirmative action, civil rights, and anti-discrimination laws and programs to end institutional racism.
29.I announce my intention to: call for enforcement of Native American treaty rights, support for tribal schools and colleges, living wages on Native American reservations, and democratization of power and wealth in tribal governments.
- I announce my intention to: call for strict legal penalties for the police practice of racial profiling
- I announce my intention to: demand an end to police brutality and all forms of harassment against people of color and ethnic minorities.
32.I announce my intention to: call for full enforcement of all sections of the Americans with Disabilities Act so that all public and private buildings, facilities, and modes of transportation are accessible to disabled people, and every effort is made to employ persons with disabilities.
33.I announce my intention to: oppose any effort to limit the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act by restricting the definition of who is considered a person with a disability, and I call for an amendment to the act that would permit punitive damages for the complainants in ADA cases.
- I announce my intention to: call for the full funding of high-quality education and training programs for people with disabilities
- I announce my intention to: call for an amendment of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to include a prohibition against the denial of credit based on disability.
36.I announce my intention to: oppose the privatization of the Social Security system and the use of Social Security trust funds for any other purpose, such as offsetting the federal deficit.
37.I announce my intention to: demand that the Social Security system remain entirely within the public sector, with funding derived from a steeply graduated income tax on all income, earned and unearned.
- I announce my intention to: call for jobs and training for seniors who do not wish to retire.
- I announce my intention to: support the formation of publicly funded and democratically controlled senior centers that provide opportunities for social and recreational activities and community involvement.
40.I announce my intention to: demand full support for every woman's right to choose when, if, and how to have children, including the right to free abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy, without interference or coercion. Clinics providing abortion services must have the full protection of the law.
- I announce my intention to: End the death penalty
- I announce my intention to: call for 16 months paid leave to be shared by new parents or in its entirety by a single parent, and the expansion and full-funding of high-quality child care facilities.
- I announce my intention to: Ensure that women should be able to enter any occupation they choose, without hindrance.
- I announce my intention to: support the immediate ratification by the United States of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- I announce my intention to: have free, quality care and education for all children and young people, federally financed and community controlled through democratically elected local boards that will include youth members.
- I announce my intention to: support the rights of minors to be free of any kind of child abuse or neglect whether physical, mental, emotional, or sexual.
- I announce my intention to: oppose measures that increase responsibilities and penalties on youth ostensibly to curb crime.
- I announce my intention to: call for an end to military draft registration, and an end to military recruiting in educational institutions.
- I announce my intention to: call for the abolition of parent consent and notification laws for reproductive health services, including abortion
- I announce my intention to: call for the right to comprehensive sex education in school that includes birth control methods, STD protection, and information about being GLBTQ.
51.I announce my intention to: oppose age-based curfew laws.
52.I announce my intention to: call for full funding of community and school arts programs for people of all ages.
53.I announce my intention to: call for full funding to keep libraries, museums, cultural centers, and historic sites open and accessible to all.
54.I announce my intention to: call for the preservation of literature, art, music, dance, oral traditions, and audio and video recordings that have arisen out of people's experiences: young and old, of all nationalities and colors, sexual preferences, working, un- and under-employed, and disabled.
55.I announce my intention to: call for full and equal funding of public education; for the restoration of a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, including art, music, world languages, and physical education; for an end to all public funding of private schools; and for free tuition and full-time teachers with full benefits (not "adjuncts") at the post-secondary level.
- I announce my intention to: Oppose the sale of on-campus advertising
- I announce my intention to: call for opportunities for lifelong self-education, with retraining programs and transitional financial support for workers displaced by technological advances.
- I announce my intention to: oppose school-sponsored prayer or any other religious practice in public schools, and all efforts to limit the teaching of evolution or to combine it with non-scientific theories.
- I announce my intention to: call for free and open access to information, including the public ownership of all large databases.
- I announce my intention to: call for a health care system that emphasizes preventive care, respects patients' privacy, gives special attention to the needs of the physically and mentally disabled, and conducts treatment and research unimpaired by sexism, racism, or homophobia.
- I announce my intention to: recognize the right to choose or refuse medical treatment, the right to die, and the right to assisted suicide.
- I announce my intention to: call for an end to home foreclosures
- I announce my intention to: call for the organization of a housing rehabilitation program aimed at renovating and remodeling existing homes to bring them up to housing and safety codes, as part of a broader public works program.
- I announce my intention to: call for the creation of a fully funded high-speed national rail system with fares set low enough to be a viable alternative to the use of the automobile.
- I announce my intention to: support publicly funded development of renewable fuels.
- I announce my intention to: End the patriot act
- I announce my intention to: Exclude the military from domestic law enforcement
- I announce my intention to: support the public financing of candidates for public office as long as this funding extends to the candidates of alternative political parties.
- I announce my intention to: call for uniform ballot access laws for all states that give all political parties a chance to have their candidates on the ballot.
- I announce my intention to: I stand opposed to the disenfranchising of any U.S. citizen by the federal, state, or local government.
- I announce my intention to: call for full representation for the U.S. territories of Guam and Puerto Rico, all Native American reservations, and the District of Columbia.
- I announce my intention to: call for the restoration of the right to vote for all citizens incarcerated in jails and prisons
- I announce my intention to: call for a mandatory paper trail of all votes to allow for recounts and verification.
- I announce my intention to: close all private prisons
- I announce my intention to: cancel blackwater, and all private armies
- I announce my intention to: call for the redirection of funds spent on the "war on drugs" to comprehensive community-based, client-controlled rehabilitation programs.
- I announce my intention to: support federal buyout programs for arms, federal safety standards and licensing for arms, and community-based public training for gun owners.
- I announce my intention to: support the breakup of large media companies so that no one company or individual owns more than one newspaper, radio or television station, or television channel.
- I announce my intention to: call for public ownership and democratic control of all our natural resources in order to conserve resources, preserve our wilderness areas, and restore environmental quality.
- I announce my intention to: immediately return to participation in international agreements, such as the Kyoto Protocol, limiting carbon emissions, and accept a major role in worldwide efforts to control global warming
- I announce my intention to: call for placing full financial responsibility on private companies for prevention and clean up of their own toxic wastes and for full compensation of workers and residents adversely affected by environmental hazards.
- I announce my intention to: call for strong, enforceable endangered species protection that focuses on habitat-centered protection for plants and animals.
- I announce my intention to: support the recycling of glass, metals, plastic, paper, and chemicals and the use of recycled materials for public works projects such as roadways, parks, and playgrounds.
- I announce my intention to: support large-scale environmental restoration efforts.
- I announce my intention to: Ban Mountaintop Removal
- I announce my intention to: call for the development of alternative energy sources including solar, geothermal, wind, hydropower, and biomass to end dependence on fossil fuels.
- I announce my intention to: Have a carbon tax
- I announce my intention to: call for family farmers whose land was taken in foreclosures to be given their land and equipment back, or be given comparable land and equipment or monetary compensation
- I announce my intention to: encourage plant diversity, and oppose the creating, patenting, and licensing of life forms.
90.I announce my intention to: Support Country of/ State of, labeling when it comes to all food.
- I announce my intention to: call for low-cost loans, grants, and technical help to farmers including help shifting farm production from non-essentials to staple foods and fibers
- I announce my intention to: encourage the reintroduction of hemp farming.
- I announce my intention to: End subsidies for corporate farms.
- I announce my intention to: oppose factory farming practices of overcrowding, drugging, and otherwise cruelly treating animals.
- I announce my intention to: call for a ban on animal experimentation for product development, and for an oversight board to examine and limit the use of animals in scientific and medical research.
- I announce my intention to: support greater inclusion and enforcement of the Endangered Species Act.
- I announce my intention to: Nationalize and democratize the banking system
- I announce my intention to: seek punishment for the Bush administration's war crimes
- I announce my intention to: Eventaully phase out sweatshops through localizing the economy.
- I announce my intention to: Have World Peace
I announce my intention to: Break Obama's record for accomplishments.
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