auto boulot dodo - left coast

1. agricultural subsidies - cheap high fructose corn syrup = bad food
2. anti-abortion rules - i am staunchly, unflinchingly pro-choice in every way besides which i think it totally sucks to make things harder on those with fewer options - obviously a rich person has options if they want an abortion but a poor 14 year old girl that is pregnant needs those options even more i would argue
3. abstinence only education - sex is not only an inevitable fact of life for adolescents (and we should at least provide them with accurate information) it is a personal decision and i find it offensive that the us government should be dictating a mostly religiously informed morality.
4. trade barriers - if you are going to espouse some free market ideology at least be consistent
5. the drug war and all other oppressive, expensive, counter-productive policies with respect to drugs including demonstrably false "drug education" programs. drugs are not necessarily great but they are ubiquitous, and it seems a bit fishy that something is that bad when the majority of the population does it. the us is *so* far from a sensible policy when it comes to drugs that it blows my mind
6. tax cuts for the wealthy - i make a decent living and the tax cut = ~ $7 per paycheck for me. woo hoo. what the fuck?
7. health care - is anything reasonable with respect to health care even on the radar? do we even care that the majority of the us population is getting fucked over with health care - grocery strikes, how many uninsured?, no federal negotiation with drug companies?
8. capital punishment/racial injustice in the criminal system
9. microsoft anti-trust capitulation - i hate microsoft with a deep seated passion
10. foreign policy - oh my god, what a mess, and not just in Iraq.


listening to: the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we are gone?