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This is the first post of my 2008 presidential campaign.  Who knows what adventures the coming election season will bring?  I don’t expect to win.  I do not even know how much attention my campaign merits nor who it may excite.  More than anything else I want to give people a really different choice for President.  Someone who wants to see a FREE health care system for all, FREE college education for all who desire it, good paying, skill training, infrastructure building Government jobs, the introduction of the 6 hour work day and 24 hour work week with 6 weeks of vacation a year.  

I propose an economic overhaul that reviews the existing social contract and negotiates a new deal  – taking power away from money and corporations and putting it in the hands of the people.  Making our government more responsive, more democratic, and more representative of poor and working people.  Ending homelessness and poverty, repairing decaying infrastructure, promoting unions and small local business, particularly  co-ops, by removing the burden of providing healthcare for their employees.

Help Americans defaulting on their mortgages by creating a program to re-finance their home with the Federal Government at 1% interest.  Help Americans get out of debt by offering Federal loans at 1% interest.  Our economic system is just as susceptible to Democracy as our political system.  

I propose a system of taxation with no tax on your income unless you are in the top 1% of incomes.  That’s something 99% of us should agree to.  It’s a maximum wage, it’s a mechanism to ensure the redistribution of wealth that has a tendency to concentrate into few hands.

It’s already very late and I still have to create my website, edit my youtube video, and get the email addresses of the nation’s 10 largest newspapers and a few from Europe and Latin America.  It’s going to be a long night.  

Happy International Labor Day!  May Day, protest for the 6 hour work day by working no more than 6 hours on May 1. www.6hourday.org

Thanks for reading about my campaign and feel free to leave a comment, suggestion, or question and I’ll try to answer as many as possible.  Check out my website, www.votesilver.org for more information.  Tell your friends.