1 corporate crime wave, corporate campaign cash
2 causes of poverty – frozen minimum wage, underinsured for health care, unaffordable housing, criminal justice reform, and low utilization of tort law.
3 fund Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) about big technological/scientific decisions – ballistic missile defense, electromagnetic or cyber-attacks, driverless car hype, runaway artificial intelligence, nanotech, biotech and many other unassessed innovations
4 speculation, rather than investment, by the financial markets …from stock buybacks to off-the-charts executive compensation, which weaken the economy and keep shareholders powerless
5 consumer protection – credit agreements and contract fine-print servitude or peonage.
6 fundamental reform of our tax laws. IRS estimates $400 billion a year of uncollected tax revenue, mostly from rich oligarchs
7 failed military and foreign policies – their costs, their boomerangs, and their unlawful violent impact on innocent peoples and communities around the world!
8 planet’s environmental disruptions from t climate crisis to water usage, to soil erosion, deforestation, and ocean pollution
9 electoral reforms – dealing with campaign finance corruption to gerrymandering, to voter repression, ballot access obstruction, & unequal treatments
10 government-funded infrastructure or public works for more efficient and clean communities and their rebuilding
11 Shift power from the few to the many, empower the people to more easily band together as workers, consumers, small taxpayers, voters, litigants as large audiences using the public airwaves
12 make Congress more accountable for the people, not corporate lobbyists. Democracy is just a shell when there is not transparency, it is a lie and a sham.
Ralph lets it rip on this list !
https://nader.org/2019/01/30/demand-critical-congressional-hearings-long-overdue-avoided-or-blocked/
