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Henry Imler December 4th, 2006

1. Bush is about to give his newest supplemental for the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I want the Democrats to approve what ever he
asks for plus an additional 500 million. There will be 1 paragraph
added to it that says:

Starting immediately War and Natural Disaster profiteering is
illegal. The extra money will go into funding investigations of illegal
profiteering. If 1 person gets injured or killed in any conflict or if
a natural disaster is declared their will be a 115% fine on every
dollar of profit. Any company that accepts any American money will have
to follow this rule. The only exception would be a company from a
country that employees 95% or more nationals are exempt in conflicts.

2. Immediately cut off all tax breaks and giveaways to
the oil industry. Take that money and invest it in grants to
individuals, schools and business to create new technology that will
get us off of oil. That helps our national security, creates good jobs
and helps the world environment.

3. Our voting machines are all created by the ATM
makers. ATM machines all have paper receipts. Democrats should require
and fund paper receipts on all voting machines. The computers prints
out a receipt that the voter can look at and then drop into a box. The
vote count that night comes from the machines but the official count
isn’t done until the paper receipts have been hand counted. They also
needs to do public funding of our elections. If companies can no longer
pay to get people elected there would be no reason for our elected
officials to let them write our laws. It would also do a lot to end the
corruption problems this country has.

I love all of the ideas (and the fairtax or something similar) but
in regards to #3, I think that it is paramount that no person can give
a reciept to someone that has intimidated the voter. With that said, it
is also paramount that there is a paper trail to verify the votes.

I myself really like the paper ballots that are scanned as a way to count them.