The Big Ideas Project

Stop the G.O.P. war against the US Postal Service. USPS employees more veterans than any agency or company in America. Small business + 99% of Americans depend on the US Post. It's in the Constitution.

Submitted by Dr. Williams in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 15, 2015, 4:37 p.m.

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Every kid should be a mentor and have a mentor, with a 2 or 3 year difference in ages.

Submitted by John Norton in Society & Community Dec. 18, 2014, 2:31 a.m.

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Mandate every citizen into re vitalized Civil Defense. Assign and train everyone with a role. Keep " defense weapons" in local arsenals.

Submitted by disgusted with "experts" in Foreign Policy & Military Jan. 3, 2015, 11:11 a.m.

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Peg the value of a global currency inversely to the number of fish in the sea.

Submitted by Aria Littlhous in Environment Jan. 4, 2015, 1:17 p.m.

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Dual Municipal Internet. The local cities should be incentivized to start their own fiber-optic network. Likewise, power utilities should also be allowed to deliver powerline internet. This would introduce some competition into the market to sell internet service.

Submitted by wg2001 in Infrastructure & Technology Jan. 5, 2015, 1:59 a.m.

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Climate change is not going away. We need to adapt to it. Coastal area living could use a line of amphibian cars. This would be a unique product. Detroit can manufacture these and export them to All the continents.

Submitted by Susan P. from NC in Environment Jan. 8, 2015, 8:46 a.m.

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AMERICAN HOMEOWNERS NEED OUR BAILOUT!!!!!! MY HOUSE MORTGAGE IS STILL UNDERWATER!!! we need a mark to market value reduction in our mortgage BALANCE to reflect our LOSS OF EQUITY!! FROM THE WALL SREET PONZI-MILL MELTDOWN! The Banks were saved! What about the rest of us?

Submitted by Kristopher W. from OR in Economy & Jobs Jan. 9, 2015, 4:53 p.m.

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Establish an SBA division for Worker & Consumer Co-ops (& Time Banks). Allocate $2B dollars for a pilot program to incubate and support the growth of co-ops in fifty cities. Allocate $39.5M per city, $2M of which will go to the administration of the program within that city by the local SBA branch & $37.5M for co-op loans. That leaves $25M for the Federal SBA Division of Co-ops for overall administration of the program.

Submitted by Y. Sam in Economy & Jobs Jan. 13, 2015, 11:01 a.m.

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repeal NAFTA that put our jobs over seas , stop importing products that are manufactured in country's that don't have equal regulations and costs to manufacture of our own country , this dose not mean putting a Canada or other country false label on it either

Submitted by scott Eagle in Economy & Jobs Jan. 15, 2015, 2:26 p.m.

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Create an academy for training future civil servants, modeled on the military academies and much as Hamilton proposed 200 years ago. Apparently Hillary Clinton had the same idea in 2008. Graduates would eventually become the core leaders in government agencies, providing continuity between administrations. Today most senior civil servants learned on the job as they made their way through the ranks, have no formal training in management, and are often replaced by a new administration.

Submitted by SoundDoc in Government & Elections Jan. 12, 2015, 8:59 p.m.

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Prohibit regressive taxes.

Submitted by Derek Hofmann in Taxes & Budget Jan. 10, 2015, 3:48 p.m.

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Eliminate standardized testing in favor of democratic curriculum. Students have no ownership or say in their own educations and are instead forced by adults to participate in a system they are not engaged by. Similar to our bill of rights, students should have a set of rights to education. This will guarantee them more than measuring outcomes that are built from pre-prescribed curriculum.

Submitted by Mike S in Education Jan. 10, 2015, 5:03 p.m.

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Campaign for stem cell research to create supplies of substitutes for scarce animal parts such as elephant ivory, rhino horns, sturgeon roe, etc. reduce the incentive for slaughtering such endangered species.

Submitted by Alison T. from PA in Environment Jan. 9, 2015, 10:58 a.m. 1

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Each year, come income tax time, be given the opportunity to select one or more of the President's Cabinets to receive all or a proportion of our taxes for the next tax year. This would be true taxation with representation! Taxes going to different Cabinet departments would, like water, find its own level.

Submitted by H. DAVENPORT B. in Taxes & Budget Dec. 11, 2014, 10:14 p.m.

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I pledge to my fellow citizens that I will vote against any candidate holding office that has betrayed the interests of their constituents in favor of the corporate interests that finance them. This means that I will vote against any incumbent, regardless of party, that is not clearly supporting in word and deed, campaign finance reform.

Submitted by Winter Soldier in Government & Elections Jan. 10, 2015, 4:10 p.m.

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Extend the concept of "Eminent Domain" to the airwaves so that candidates that have gained access to public funds can have an equal number of advertising hours for independent political ads, which can only contain positive statements of what that candidate stands for.

Submitted by Mark B. from AZ in Government & Elections Jan. 11, 2015, 9:25 a.m.

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"Swords to Plowshares" adaptations. Vets, makers, hackers, tinkers: hack and adapt the Pentagon's military-grade weapons currently being given to civilian police. Hold contests with prizes, hack-ins, conventions, celebrations; turn the Pentagon's discarded weapons into items with peaceful and green applications, art, comedy....

Submitted by Catherine H in Uncategorized Jan. 3, 2015, 9:16 p.m.

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Create more neighborhood centers where dependent family members can more easily be cared for by neighbors and people who know them. Teen agers can also find employment at these centers. Neighbors can gather for meetings on how to better care for their neighborhoods.

Submitted by Jean H. from VT in Society & Community Jan. 9, 2015, 3:42 p.m.

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WE, you and i, everyone in human society all over the world work together to develop our next and needed evolutionary sociological step and that is; A global stateless border-less human society that is founded upon egalitarianism,liberal socialism, that would treat the present 'nations' of humanity as simply 'states' as in the united states of america. It would be a DIRECT DEMOCRACY-Each state equal, in all voting rights, like the senate in congress...No wars, no more neo-liberal exploitation...

Submitted by toto che handala in Government & Elections Dec. 12, 2014, 9:08 a.m.

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Create national student defense loans, with low interest rates, and allow college grads and students who took out loans during the Bush years (and were forced to go through intermediaries to secure government funded support) to apply and refinance their college loans. It is in our national security to have a highly educated and trained workforce.

Submitted by SKL51 in Education Jan. 15, 2015, 2 a.m.

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