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Attack Klendathu... | by Alcyone | 2004-04-05 00:30:30 |
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by Alcyone |
2004-04-05 04:58:46 |
This is a party platform in Finland. Probably has errors (grammatical and logical).
International:
- Pardon all loans to third world countries. Interest rates are keeping them as third world countries.
- Try to pressure USA to allow UN weapons inspectors into their facilities (nuclear, chemical and biological). Part of me wants to deal with this the similar way as USA has with Iraq: decide about a pre-emptive war before weapons inspection has even started and carry it out after weapons inspection with no regards to evidence.
- No for international agreements, which give multinational companies more rights than they have now (mainly WTO-related stuff). Also try to give less developed countries more power in WTO and try to increase public meetings and memos of WTO. (Some decisions in WTO are done behind closed doors and with only very selected group of western countries.)
Domestic:
- Drugs: Age limit of 18 and sold in government owned outlets (like alcohol - the first legal drug). Illegal to sell elsewhere. Illegal to produce. (I know this is way too radical right now.)
- Prostitution: Try to reduce pimping as much as possible. Also require prostitutes to pay taxes. Allow them normal heath care benefits. Make STDs a work-related sickness for prostitutes (government pays some of the medication and treatment).
- Listen to EFFi more (similar to EFF of USA). Their interest is not in computing anarchy, rather sensible computing with as little intervention as possible.
- Pursue consumer rights on using the copyright law to make backup copies for personal use. Consumers should be able to do it without special equipment and/or special skills. Media usage limitations, such as region coding in DVDs, can be used (if backups can be made without special skills and/or equipment), but consumers have the right to use and develop programs that circumvent them. All products containing media usage limiting technology would have to state it visibly on product cover.
- Mandatory tolerance education in schools starting from the second grade all the way to 9th (last mandatory class).
- Sex education earlier. Combine with drug education (also alcohol and tobacco). Hire about 20-year-old teachers to do this in more practical level (currently it's quite theoretical) and in a more relaxed athmosphere. No grading or testing. Only attendance and not sleeping required to pass. Giggling allowed during sex ed.
- Current student benefits linked to inflation index (haven't been increased for 10 years).
- Decrease entrepreneurship obstacles and taxes.
- Decrease labor costs for permanent workers (costs less the longer they stay at one workplace).
- Remove church tax altogether. Allow taxfree donations and membership fees to churches instead.
- Flat taxrate for all. A higher minimum amount before rate is applied.
- Child benefits only for low income families.
- Reduce refugee benefits somewhat, but leave education (language, culture, laws, getting a job, etc.). With only the benefits they should be able to just make it (now they have it better than unemployed)- reduces freeriders and motivates to get a job (and educates into getting one). Build refugee centers into more populated areas, so they have more contact with outside (and outside has more contact with them too).
- Instead of giving money for the unemployed, arrange adequate free housing and one free hot meal per day (army or primary schools could produce the food). Takes care of the homeless too (which are not supposed to exist according to government).
- Start reducing government pensions. Encourage personal pension saving. Government pensions and high amounts of social benefits do not work during low economic growth. Start reducing gradually.
- Levy a very heavy tax on diapers that can be used only once. Babies can be taught to be without them in 2-16 weeks after birth (some accidents will of course happen, but that's life). Babies in countries, where diapers are not used, cry less and colic is virtually unknown. Put education information into government baby package (in Finland, the parents have a choice to get certain amount of money or a package containing baby accessories, when they get a baby).
- Levy a tax on products that litter more than their nonlittering alternatives. Diapers and plastic forks are good examples. If the company recycles the products, the company would receive some tax refund (proportinate to the recycled amount, but less than the taxed amount).
- Enforce Kyoto restrictions. Start pollution trading.
- Reduce army costs by making it voluntary for such professionals, who will be doing the same job during war, e.g. doctors and nurses. Also people with university degrees could choose between full service or only a short 1-2 month course in weapons handling, shooting, basic combat moves and other basic stuff (they are intelligent enough to learn during war). Cut unarmed training time down to 6 months (currently 11 months) and civil service time to exactly same as maximum military one (362 days). Also have option to pay for the civil service. Those refusing go to a better prison (directly to one, where they work and get paid - if they choose so) and have to spend only 3 months there (now they go to jail every time they refuse drafting - until age of 30).
- No for NATO. We don't need it until we have a professional army and willingness to fight wars for other countries.
- Give tax reliefs for energy produced from renewable sources.
- Require nuclear waste to have quite low radiation level before it can leave the country. We should handle the storage for the first 25-100 years.
- Privatize YLE into TV and radio companies. Allow it to broadcast advertisements. Put normal wartime requirements (government takes over or something like that) to all TV and radio stations. Require all large TV and radio companies to have at least one channel, which has protection from power failures for three days and most of the critical equipment is located 10 meters underground.
- Increase police force and number of doctors and nurses. Improve the working conditions of the latter two.
- Increase wages of police, firemen, doctors and nurses. Add these professions to the board that now decides only the wages of parliament members.
I think there is about half or more, what I have to say about this topic. Needless to say, there is no political party in Finland that would promise to try to make all of those happen (I would be sceptical about even half). Politically I align myself with the Green Party and the Liberal Party (yes, both of them).
P.S. I usually don't watch topics (and this is about my personal opinion, so I have even less interest here). |
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Practice sex ed in school?!? | by tnglives | 2004-04-05 06:15:31 |
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I meant | by Alcyone | 2004-04-05 09:07:47 |
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Sex Ed | by snake | 2004-04-05 12:55:16 |
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