What I wan't from my governments

Yes, governments, plural, since we as individuals live under layers of governments from federal to state and local governments, there would be changes at all levels.

1. Strengthening of the first amendment wall of separation of church and state.  And interpreting freedom of speech and press in the broadest terms.

2. Laws limiting the right of the people to keep and bear arms, particularly restrictions on carrying loaded guns in cars, or on one's person should be eliminated.  A background check and gun permit should be all that is required for one to carry a weapon concealed or not.  Any non-automatic weapon that doesn't use explosive shells (i.e. no machine-guns, sub-machine-guns or grenade launchers, but no silly distinction's about semi-auto weapons based on fear-mongering) should be legal to own and carry.

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3. Eliminate the patriot-act, CIA and NSA. Prosecute prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in civil courts, or release them, holding people in prison for indefinite periods of time without charges is inherently un-American.

4. Eliminate all laws restricting adults use or sales of drugs, tax them within reason, and put one tenth of the tax-money that had been spent on the "war on drugs" on an educational campaign and to set up drug clinics using scientifically proven effective programs (i.e. no 12-step or other woo based solutions that don't actually show positive results) to help addicts to recover.

5. Legalize sex-workers and set up regulations to combat STDs among that industry, oh, and tax it within reason.

6. Remove all US forces from foreign soil,  redesign armed-forces to be a purely defense-force to protect US states, and territories, including massive reductions in defense spending.

7. Increase 10 fold spending for science research grants for higher education, particularly in the area of pure research.

8. Increase by 10 fold spending on NASA, including adding incentives for cooperation with private sector to help make space a profitable area for investment.

9. Include a skeptical thinking class in all schools starting in grade school, through high-school.  Also, sex-education classes (including birth control and STDs ) should be a manditory part of middle-school and high-school.  Private schools, and home schooling systems should have to hold to these same standards.  Religious schools, if they want to teach creation should have it in a separate theology class.

10. Eliminate any special tax exemptions for churches.

11. Eliminate laws restricting a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body.

12. Civil union's for everyone, any sex, and any number of individuals (under an arbitrary limit to be agreed apon, say > 1 < 10).  Also eliminate any special tax-exemptions or incentives that act effectively as a single's tax.

13. Remove any licensing or regulation of business where it cannot be proven that said regulation isn't required to ensure the safety of the public.  Too much regulation is used by large corporations to act as a barrier to competition from small business that might otherwise out-compete them.

14. No government regulated monopolies.  We need to seriously think about what services are best run by government, and completely socialize them, and which are best left to the private sector, and completely de-regulate them, composite solutions are invariably a worst-of-both-worlds solution.

15. Reign in the FCC, let them decide who gets what bit of the airwaves where and keep them from dictating or censoring content.  For that matter, eliminate all forms of censorship excepting self-censorship of industry by industry.

16. Copyrights should be for 14 years, with the copyright holders right to renewal for another 14 years, until his death.  Eliminate all software patents.

17. Reform social security to insure that it will be tenable when I'm old enough to draw it.  Creep the retirement age up to 70 over a 10 year period.

18. I think that unemployment insurance might be an area that would be better served by the private sector. Either way, someone who is a low unemployment risk shouldn't have to pay the same as somebody who is often unemployed.

19.  Repeal helmet laws and seat-belt laws for adults, and while we're doing that defang the federal and state governments ability to strong-arm state and local governments to pass laws not in the interest of their citizens.  And no laws impinging on the rights of the people to live their lives as they see fit if it doesn't directly impact the rights of their fellow citizens.

I am hoping this blog-post will be a catalyst to get my friends talking about these issues, please post any additions, changes or problems you see, or oversights on my part.  I'd like to hear you opinions.