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1. LIFE IS VERY UNCERTAIN
The Global Risks Report published by the World Economic Forum
2. % who say ____ is a major threat, minor threat or not a threat to their country
3. The U.S. is in its third year of a pandemic resulting in 1,050,631 deaths
as the BA.5 variant indicates that the pandemic may not be over.
SEPTEMBER 23RD 2022
U.S. DEATHS IN LAST 7 DAYS
2,496
4. U.S. AND OUR DEMOCRACY CHALLENGED
🇺🇸 16th in World Happiness
🇺🇸 19th in Quality of Life
🇺🇸 21st in Human Development
🇺🇸 24th in Social Progress
🇺🇸 27th in Upward Mobility
🇺🇸 36th Best Place to be as World
enters next Phase of Covid
Wildfires, flooding, gun violence, the war in Ukraine, and random shortages of goods continue as
40-year inflation peaks have strained budgets. The previous administration’s plot to overthrow an
election and our democracy under siege only add to the chaos as changes in reproductive law have
triggered further social anxiety in a mid-term election year where 81% of Americans believe we are
even more divided than we were before the Pandemic.
5. Journalism dependent on digital advertising and Free speech dependent on social media platforms in a
hyperconnected society with deep fake technology, algorithmic amplification, armies of bots and
behavioral targeting not working for freedom of speech and Principles of a Representative Democracy.
Environmental protection, climate change policies, 20.5 billion in fossil fuel subsidies, 24 million federal
acres leased to oil companies, 1,322 EPA superfund sites, 59,956 EPA cleanup sites not working for our
health, the planet or our sustainability.
Affordable housing, healthcare, mental health services, quality education, college debt, quality jobs, gig
working, predatory lending, safety nets not working for upward mobility or meritocracy.
A 20-year “War on Terror” costing $8 trillion and 900k lives, a $782 billion military budget, military bases
in 70+ countries, and nuclear weapons are not working for our future.
Gerrymandering, voter suppression, identity politics, vigilante justice laws, culture wars, election
spending, lobbying, and congressional representation not working for democracy.
PLENTY
OF THINGS
ARE REALLY
MESSED UP!
576 Cancer Clusters, 108k drug overdoses, 47,511 suicides, 45,009-gun violence deaths, 1.9 million
incarcerated, 550K homeless not working for humanity.
Tax rates, carried interest, loopholes, estate taxes, tax enforcement, rent-seeking, $28.4 trillion national
debt, and policies that value monopolies over competition are not working for shared prosperity.
6. WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE FACING THE COUNTRY?
8. https://www.bridgealliance.us
Citizen Voice
Our country is well represented when informed citizens are
active in the political and social processes.
Embracing Our Difference's
We recognize that the richness of the American identity is due to
our ability to accept our differences and embrace our cultural,
ethnic, racial, and political diversity with dignity.
Open-Mindedness
We explore and learn from each other, seeking aligned efforts to
raise visibility and effectiveness.
Collaboration
Our country is stronger when we work together constructively to
meet the challenges we face.
Solutions
Genuine, good faith problem-solving will lead to the best
solutions to address our great challenges.
Principles
19. LET’S SWITCH TO
THE POPULAR VOTE
FOR PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTIONS
As the law exists now, only one member of the House and one member of the
Senate are needed to challenge any state's set of electors.
63% of Americans support using the popular vote
Electoral College
21. U.S. House Winners
2020 Dollars
U.S. Senate Winners
2020 Dollars
LET’S FIX POLITITIANS FOR HIRE
22. 2,098 number of super PACs
$1,025,656,311 total raised by super PACs
A new conservative nonprofit group scored a $1.6 billion windfall last year via Barre Seid, an electronics
manufacturing mogul, and the donation is the largest single contributions ever made to a politically focused
nonprofit. The beneficiary is a new political group controlled by Leonard A. Leo, an activist who has used his
connections to Republican donors and politicians to help engineer the conservative dominance of the
Supreme Court and to finance battles over abortion rights, voting rules and climate change policy.
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/
LET’S FIX CAMPAIGN FINANCE
23. 21,951,202 U.S. Millionaires
8.5% of U.S. Adult Population
Ultra-High NET worth individuals
724 U.S. Billionaires
52% of the 217th U.S. Congress
Ultra-High NET worth individuals
Personal Finances
LET’S FIX EGALITARIANISM
24. U.S. POPULATION: 40% Non-White
117th CONGRESS: 23% Non-White
HOUSE - 25% women
SENATE - 24% women
U.S. POPULATION: 51% Women
117th CONGRESS: 25% Women
up only 5% since 1975
LET’S FIX OUR REPRESENTATION
25. Section 3
If the Senate were split between most and
least populated States we would have:
84% of the population represented by 50 Senators
16% of the population represented by 50 Senators
LET’S FIX OUR CONSTITUTIONAL MATH
27. THE CONSTITUTION'S ARTICLE V LAYS OUT THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE CONSTITUTION
MAY BE AMENDED.
•Proposal by convention of the states, with ratification by state conventions.
This method has never been used.
•Proposal by convention of the states, with ratification by state legislatures.
This method has also never been used.
•Proposal by Congress, with ratification by state conventions.
This method has been used ONE time.
•Proposal by Congress, with ratification by the state legislatures.
This method was used for all current TWENTY-SIX amendments.
LET’S UPDATE ARTICLE V
MORE THAN 11,000 AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
HAVE BEEN PROPOSED, BUT ONLY 27 HAVE BEEN RATIFIED OVER 234 YEARS.
29. LET’S FIX JUDICIAL REVIEW
AND THE PARTISAN STACKING OF THE COURTS
BY THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY
25% of Americans have confidence in Supreme Court, down from 36% in 2021.
The share who say the court has too much power has nearly tripled to 64%.
They’ve devised legal theories like “Originalism”, “Textualism”, “Corporate
Personhood”, “The Major Questions Doctrine”, and “The Non-delegation
Doctrine”, all of which have little basis in the original Constitution, or as
amended, but have been widely disseminated by the likes of the Federalist
Society and conservatives to favor corporations.
30. GET RID OF THE 60 VOTE FILIBUSTER
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
2019-2020
2017-2018
2015-2016
1993-1994
1997-1998
1991-1992
1985-1986
1989-1990
1971-1972
1925-1926
1945-1946
1917-1918
1919-1920
1941-1942
1943-1944
1957-1958
1935-1936
1933-1934
Senate Cloture Motions Filed
Years
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/cloture/clotureCounts.htm
Let’s stop depending on special legislative process called “reconciliation” to quickly advance high-priority fiscal legislation.
31. Researchers have found that today’s union households earn up to 20% more than non-union households.
LET’S PASS H.R.842 – “THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE ACT”
U.S. employers are charged with violating federal law in 41.5% of all union election campaigns.
33.9%
6.1%
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) union membership report for 2021.
71% of Americans approve of Labor Unions
32. LET’S PASS “RAISE THE WAGE ACT”
AND ELIMINATE NON-COMPETE AGREEMENTS
The last increase was in July 2009. The longest period since established in 1938 without an increase.
The federal minimum wage of $7.25 today is worth 21% less than 12 years ago—and 34% less than in 1968.
37. LET’S STOP PRETENDING
WE DON’T HAVE MONOPOLIES,
OLIGOPOLIES, AND CARTELS
MARKET HARM CONSUMER HARM
ANTI-TRUST
REGULATORY CAPTURE
Pass the American Innovation and Choice Online Act
38. It is genuinely hard to find a more destructive economic force in America
today than the private equity industry. It encompasses all of the negative
trends that have undermined living standards for the broad mass of citizens
since the Reagan era: the escalating share of national income going to
finance, the rise of market concentration, the contempt for workers, the
yawning gap between rich and poor.
The biggest private equity firms buy up companies with borrowed money and
load them with debt. While fund managers extract cash through fees and
financial engineering, the companies struggle to pay off these new
obligations on their balance sheet. The subsequent cost-cutting of jobs,
wages, and pension plans can be seen as a direct transfer from labor to
capital, with the financiers growing impossibly rich while everyone else
suffers.
The leveraged-buyout era has immiserated labor, dampened productive
investment, and degraded the experience of workers, customers, and the
larger economy. We should ameliorate this suffering by ending private equity
as we know it.
https://prospect.org/economy/cut-off-private-equitys-money-spigot/
LET’S PASS THE STOP WALL STREET LOOTING ACT
repeal Section 209 of NSMIA
39. LET’S GET RID OF SELF REGULATORY ORGANIZATIONS
Although SROs are private organizations, they are still subject to government-imposed regulation to a degree.
However, the government does delegate some aspects of the industry oversight to self-regulatory organizations.
Since the SRO has some regulatory influence over an industry or profession, it can often serve as a watchdog to
guard against fraud or unprofessional practices. The ability of an SRO to exercise regulatory authority does not
stem from a grant of power from the government.
•The Financial Planning Association (FPA)
•Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)
•American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI)
•Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)
•Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC)
•Options Clearing Corporation (OCC)
•American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA)
40. LET’S HOLD CEO’S, AND BOARDS ACCOUNTABLE
FOR WHITECOLLAR CRIMES
CORPORATE NON-PROSECUTION AGREEMENTS
AND DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENTS
Pass the Accountable Capitalism Act
Extracting settlements paid with shareholders’ money is
not the same as bringing alleged wrongdoers to justice.
41. LET’S FIX THE INTERNET, SECTION 230
OF THE COMMUNICATIONS DECENCY ACT,
AND MASS MEDIA BEHAVIORAL MANIPULATION
tracking/targeting
disinformation
misinformation
surveillance capitalism
45. I. A company serves its customers by providing a value proposition that best meets their needs. It accepts and supports fair competition and a level
playing field. It has zero tolerance for corruption. It keeps the digital ecosystem in which it operates reliable and trustworthy. It makes customers fully
aware of the functionality of its products and services, including adverse implications or negative externalities.
II. A company treats its people with dignity and respect. It honors diversity and strives for continuous improvements in working conditions and employee
well-being. In a world of rapid change, a company fosters continued employability through ongoing upskilling and reskilling.
III. A company considers its suppliers as true partners in value creation. It provides a fair chance to new market entrants. It integrates respect for human
rights into the entire supply chain.
IV. A company serves society at large through its activities, supports the communities in which it works, and pays its fair share of taxes. It ensures the safe,
ethical and efficient use of data. It acts as a steward of the environmental and material universe for future generations. It consciously protects our
biosphere and champions a circular, shared and regenerative economy. It continuously expands the frontiers of knowledge, innovation and technology to
improve people’s well-being.
V. A company provides its shareholders with a return on investment that takes into account the incurred entrepreneurial risks and the need for
continuous innovation and sustained investments. It responsibly manages near-term, medium-term and long-term value creation in pursuit of
sustainable shareholder returns that do not sacrifice the future for the present.
VI. A company is more than an economic unit generating wealth. It fulfils human and societal aspirations as part of the broader social system. Performance
must be measured not only on the return to shareholders, but also on how it achieves its environmental, social and good governance objectives.
Executive remuneration should reflect stakeholder responsibility.
VII. A company that has a multinational scope of activities not only serves all those stakeholders who are directly engaged, but acts itself as a stakeholder
– together with governments and civil society – of our global future. Corporate global citizenship requires a company to harness its core competencies,
its entrepreneurship, skills and relevant resources in collaborative efforts with other companies and stakeholders to improve the state of the world.
LET’S EMBRACE 2020 DAVOS MANIFESTO FOR PROGRESSIVE CAPITALISM
Capitalism is a great system if you have a reasonable balance between winners and losers, a growing population, along with sustainable resources.
46. LET’S REFOCUS ON THE 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR 2030
Seven years in, and the world is on track to achieve almost none of these goals.
