Chris Richardson

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Rape, incest, ability of the parents to support their children and refuse to support their children, Risk to the mother's life, but still a decision of the parents.

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With Single Payer, people will live longer (like they do in other countries with socialized medicine). With people living longer, more resources will be needed to support these folks. We need a new frontier such as an international base on the moon where we can make this base self sufficient and start exporting materials and manufactured goods back to any square half kilometer on earth. To get the cooperation of these other countries, we make sure that they receive shipments from the moon base. The riches up there in minerals that we are running out of here on earth can be huge and we can eliminate indebtedness in the world from the moon. Just with the rare earths on the moon we will be able to build enough solar panels to replace all of the oil, coal, and nuclear power plants on earth. Renewable power is a huge game changer for new industries and materials research. The moon can be the jumping off point to Mars. See www.rcr4congress.us for more details.

Currently we spend more on defense than the next 10 countries, at least 4 times as much as the second country to invest in defense. We could cut the defense budget by half and still be safe. As we continue, we can allocate even more from defense to support our people and help bring stability to the rest of the world at the same time. The development of the moon will help make large defensive powers less necessary. Our safety is improved when we get off of the threshold of war.

Absolutely, If we can bail out the banks and auto makers we can end the predatory education loans. As I said before, education is an investment in our futures. Too many students have gone into one job specialty and completed the study, only to find there are no jobs in that specialty. I myself, studied and worked in biology and got my degree, but I also found I had a talent for computers. I was taking computer courses as well as the biology classes. Both proved valuable to my future.

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The people of a country can have various belief systems and as citizens of our country,there is only us and not us and them. Ultimately we need to keep our belief system respectful and tolerant of each other as fellow citizens of this country. Hopefully, this tolerance can spread to other countries and we work as cooperative groups of citizens.

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Single Payer Health Care works wonderfully. While we are exporting guns and war, Cuba is exporting Doctors and Nurses to Central and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. Even Venezuela has Single Payer, and we do not. They have single payer because Venezuela trades oil to Cuba for their Doctors to help the Venezuelan people. It is our sanctions that are the problem with Venezuela. It is the Cubans who go into the hot zones in Africa where our CDC won't go. We need to review the charters of the HHS, FDA, VA, and the AMA. They are focusing on service to Corporate America and not America's people. The FDA needs to actually monitor the drug companies and any drug that exceeds a reasonable profit margin can have their patent on that drug revoked and made public so that equivalent drugs can be made at less cost by other vendors. This will cause the price of drugs to plummet to where more people can afford them or the government can provide them cheaply to the needy.

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Stop our sanctions on their nations and our regime change wars. Our involvement in a negative way, ends up making more terrorists. We are the biggest maker of terrorists and refugees that are flooding Europe and lining up at our southern boarder. Our actions are killing us. We spent over 7 trillion in the Middle East and generated many more terrorists.

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Well, in that we have been running people out of their countries, we are responsible for them when they show up at our borders. Any country that we have displaced a significant part of the population in regime change wars, these refugees cannot go home, and they are at our door. We used to be a generous people, but we have become self interested and self consumed. We have a lot to relearn. It should also be that we go into regime change wars much more thoughtfully. We also need to return the War Powers Act back to the Congress and remove it from the Executive branch of government. We also need to reopen the investigation of the events of 911. The efforts of www.ae911truth.org are getting impossible to refute.

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I am a Unitarian Universalist and respect the religion of other people who seek to better their relationship with their idea of the supreme as long as they do not interfere with the beliefs of another group.

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Here in America, we have Corporate Socialism, but we cannot have a social break for our people. Health is a right that all of our people should enjoy. It is a public health issue and it means we end up with a happier and healthier citizenship. The workers enjoy more healthy days and are more productive if they do not have to worry about the health of themselves and their families. The health insurance Industry kills 45,000 people a year just in the denial of service to the people who pay their premiums. The premiums are destroying half a million families a year. The Affordable Care Act is a gift to the Health Insurance Industry and why we spend 4 times as much for our health care as any other industrialized country and our medical outcomes are horrible. Also, education is an investment in our future. An educated work force is a lot more nimble than an uneducated work force. We also need to have ranked choice voting and get rid of the Primary System.

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in early September, 2001, I was in the process of setting up WorldVistA and went to London to give a paper at the Open Source Health Care Alliance to present VistA to their attendees. An Information Technology Specialist from a 1,000 bed hospital in Tehran, Iran was in the audience. He asked us how he could get the VistA model, and we burned him a DVD of the documentation and the code and we exchanged emails. We communicated a couple of times and 911 happened and the emails stopped. It would have been a different world if we had been able to help that hospital in Tehran if we could have continued to help them. I studied biology in Florida for the Florida Department of Natural Resources. What I learned from that experience helped me in solving other problems that stumped others. We need new ideas and new solutions for our problems and start framing our world in a more hopeful light. We need to find new ways of solving issues that are beneficial to all involved.

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The only legal guns outside of remote gun clubs and hunting will be bolt action single shot guns. In remote gun clubs, rapid fire and semi-automatic weapons can be fired and stored. Any gun must be licensed annually and verified that it is still in the possession of the registered owner.

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1) Streamline Voting and Increase Democracy with Ranked Choice Voting with Voter Readable Ballot Verification Methods. 2) Build Holographic Electronic Health Care Record Transfer between hospitals with a hierarchical storage and dispense of patient records to the locality that the patient is scheduled to be. 3) Progressive Term limits - Incumbents have a distinct advantage and so each time that they go to run as incumbent, their threshold increases by 3%. First time 50%, 2nd time 53%, so on

Racism is a antiquated process that needs to be left behind. Education is one way to help move racism out of the picture. We need to learn more about each other and to begin to revel in our differences as well as celebrate how we can improve each other's lives. Tolerance is the best way to improve our understanding of each other and to remove racism.