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Mark DeSaulnier

Michael E. Kerr Brief View of Mark DeSaulnier

I know Mark personally. I like him as a person. I have thought well of him, but I have been disappointed with him as a Congressperson. He has passion on some issues, but seems to avoid or take a backseat on some other more important issues.

Mark DeSaulnier lists 14 priorities on his official Congressional website. While he describes some existing problems under most of these priorities, he offers no solutions or specific accomplishments. Most of the time he boasts about his own experience and that, of course, he really cares about the issues.

From my personal knowledge of Mark, I am sure that he is sincere about wanting to address most of the problems in our society. However, Mark’s priorities seem to be toward following the lead of Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Corporate Establishment rather than the interests of the people! He has almost completely ignored the crys of the progressive movement on the many important issues of the day. Mark has been totally absent on foreign policy except when approved by Nancy Pelosi. The people in District 11, deserve more! Mark never uses his Congressional bullhorn to speak out for what is best for the people of her district. Mark usually just votes as he is told by Democratic Leaders on important issues. When he doesn’t, he does so quietly as to not create any distraction against the Democratic Corporate leadership. Unfortunately, Mark has just become another robot for the Deep State Corporate Controlled Democratic Party.

Kerr vs DeSaulnier on the Issues

Michael Kerr on Mark DeSaulnier

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Nisha Sharma – Republican CA CD11

Michael E. Kerr Views on Nisha Sharma

I have never met Nisha, but she seems like a nice person. Her website’s issue statements while lacking solution details, seem more people friendly than most Republicans today.

As a native of India, I believe Nisha has been in the United states for about 10 years. She does not have any experience in the world of politics either as an office holder or activist.

I am puzzled that she suddenly ran for Congress as a Republican having been a resistered Democrat all her time as a citizen. A registered Democrat with no previouspolitical experience runs for Congress as a Republican. I certainly have had my suspicions, because if no Republican runs, as a Green Party candidate I would have been able to run in the November general election and campaigned 8 more months against Mark DeSaulnier.

I am positive Mark was more than happy to run against Nisha rather than me. While I was no threat to Mark as to winning the election at this time, my campaign would likely have forced him to be more specific on controversial issues he has been silent on and ignored..

In retrospect his serious injury and illness would have dampened my campaign as it did his. I was rooting for his recovery as were many others!

Some solutions I have concerning Nisha’s solutionless issue statements.

Cost of Living

Michael Kerr Proposed Solutions:

1. Pass Medicare For All so that the burden of health costs is removed from those most effected with middle and lower incomes.
2. Make college tuition free and implement a process that significantly lowers or forgives existing student debt. The outrageous debt owned by students has created debt slavery among our young people and the endangers the future of our nation. In meantime, allow students to erase burdensome student debt via bankruptcy if lenders won’t renegotiate away accumulated interest and convert loans with interest free terms. Those who have paid their loans, should receive special tax rebates.
3. Proposition 13 should have only protected homeowners at their primary residence. Large corporations change ownership every microsecond, so why aren’t we taxing them under same rules of homeowners. End their special tax exemption.
4. Reinstate usury laws. Corporations have been allowed to charge exorbitant interests on credit cards and loans. No more! Tax financial transactions.
5. The tech Industry has done well in the Bay Area. The Tech Industry and many of its employee’s newfound wealth has in turn led to a massive rise in housing costs across the Bay Area. This has had an extreme negative effect on those not in the tech industry and led to gentrification of long-term neighborhoods. The Government and Tech Industry must be required to create enough affordable housing to meet the needs of the Bay Area community. This is an emergency and needs to be treated as so.
6. In 2008 President Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress refused to help millions of homeowners keep their homes. Instead they spent $trillions bailing out the Financial Industry which had actually caused the the world’s greatest Recession since 1929. All the Government had to do was provide sufficient interest free aid to keep people in their homes. The Government aid could have been backed via liens on the homes. People would have stayed in their homes; people would have kept their jobs; the economy wouldn’t have totally collapsed. However, wealthy speculators then seized these foreclosed homes dirt cheap and have reaped a fortune in renting them at exuberant rents. This was one of the greatest wealth transfers in history. We need to tax the financial industry along with multiple homeowner individuals and corporations that have benefitted from this wealth transfer. Need policies that will not make it profitable for multi-home ownership releasing homes for sale to individual families. We need to implement a new and better Glass-Stiegel to order to prevent reckless financial speculation by the Financial Industry.

All of these ideas and others should help ease the cost of living in the Bay Area. Lowering housing and other important costs of living must be a priority at all levels of the Government..

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Infrastructure

Michael Kerr Proposed Solutions:

The primary purpose of our roads and public transportation is to get employees to work at corporations and businesses across the Bay Area. Corporations use our roads to transfer their products via road destroying trucks.

As part of reducing car traffic, we need to expand low cost public tansit.

Corporations need to pay more of their profits to reinburse the government

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Immigration

Michael Kerr Proposed Solutions:

Simple Enrty Program Need to create a 9 month Visitor Entry Pass with a token fee (not tied to a specific job or company) to anyone who enters from Mexico.. Must leave for at least 3 months, but no limit on number of returns. Puts coyotee smuglars out of business, because view would need their services to enter USA. Higher cost of living discourages families from moving to USA permanently. Right now expensive dangerous border crossings actually trap immigrants here in state of poverty and fear. Not good for society. Might need need some special provision to prevent pregnant women from coming into USA to make their birth child an automatic USA citizen.

More benevolent Foreign Policy Most people making the dangerous trip from Central America have been forced to leave their own country due to internal oppression and poverty. The USA must accept its responsibities for supporting cruel dictatorships and over throwing democracies who won’t do our bidding. USA foriegn aid must be used to improve the living standards and democracy for the people. No more foreign military and police aid to prop up dictators. The National Endowment for Demcracy (NED) needs to be defunded and dismantled. The NED has been used by the USA to overthow or destabilize numerous democracies. Most of the refugees trying to come to the USA are the result of our foreign policy.

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from Creating Better World

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