AUT - - Joe Schriner, independent candidate for president in 2008, has an opinion on numerous issues he feels are important. Here's a sample, taken from Schriner's Web site (<i>voteforjoe.com).</i><b>SCHRINER'S ADMINISTRATION WOULD:
CONNEAUT - - Joe Schriner, independent candidate for president in 2008, has an opinion on numerous issues he feels are important. Here's a sample, taken from Schriner's Web site (voteforjoe.com).
SCHRINER'S ADMINISTRATION WOULD:
- Promote and build healthy families through community programs;
- Provide amnesty for illegal Hispanic immigrants, as well as housing, living wages, and optimal working conditions for new arrivals;
- Emphasize renewable energy resources, while avoiding nuclear power;
- Create a U.S. Department of Peace to encourage nonviolent solutions to domestic and global problems;
- Encourage the United States to take the lead in nuclear disarmament, and put the military on a "just war" basis;
- Battle crime by combating drug and alcohol addiction and poverty, and using peacetime military forces to aid police in high-crime areas;
- Aid farmers and agriculture, encourage organic growing of farm products and farmland preservation, and pay living wages to farm laborers;
- Issue a formal apology to Native Americans for past atrocities and consider "creative land give-back programs," tackle drug and alcohol problems on reservations, and create a Native American commission to revise history books and teach Native American culture and history in schools.
Star Beacon Print Edition: 8/9/2007
