AGENDA FOR POSITIVE CHANGE
“Our nation is headed in the wrong direction, and the last thing we need is more of the same. Let’s make a fresh start in a new direction.”
Bring our troops home and restore America’s positive place in the world
- Begin strategic redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq according to a smart plan that won’t force us to send them back in a few years
- Redeploy small strategic units in the Middle East to counter terrorism, train Iraqi security forces, respond to specific threats
- Repair relations with traditional allies and forge new strategic alliances in global trouble spots
Guarantee Affordable Health Care
- Require open disclosure of all health care-related prices and unitary pricing to guarantee the same cost for the same service or treatment
- Create a national single risk pool to leverage down insurance costs
- Reverse cuts in Medicare reimbursements to doctors
Protect Social Security
- Strengthen Social Security, don’t privatize it
- Ensure portability of retirement benefits
- Shared responsibility to guarantee participants are at the table when decisions are made
Do the right thing for our veterans
- Help our veterans reestablish themselves in their communities through home ownership programs and low-interest loans to start or expand their small businesses
- Cut red tape for military personnel to guarantee they receive their benefits and health care without delay
- Crack down on predatory lenders who prey on military families
Improve national security and energy independence
- Provide more resources for community first responders, police, firefighters, and other emergency personnel.
- Secure the border and enforce existing immigration law
- Promote alternative energy sources to end dependence on foreign oil
Strengthen middle-class families
- Restore federal funding for Pell Grant and other assistance programs that help eligible middle-class families afford college
- Require Congress to do what every Texas family must do — live within its means or clearly explain why it’s important to go into debt
- Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to give more working families the tax breaks they deserve
