A few good ideas gleaned from the Daily Blog...

                                      NZ after six years of John Keynesian....

A financial transactions tax, feeding every poor kid, 12 month maternity leave, living wage, equal pay, abortion rights, respecting our minority citizens, protecting the environment, real affordable housing, legalizing medicinal cannabis, a green economy, some type of compulsory Union fee, better public services and curbing corporate power while standing up to America and China is about as dangerous as we get.

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/05/a-mandatory-living-wage-the-debate-we-need-to-have/

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