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Create you own policy agenda advocating the policies you want enacted into law by choosing from the basic policy options below. Revise your agenda whenever your priorities change and email your agendas to your elected representatives and candidates for elective office.

If you are interested in particular pieces of legislation, tell them whether you support or oppose the proposed legislation. Give them instructions regarding the action you want them to take, if any, to revise the legislation to meet your requirements.

Below you will find a comprehensive set of policy options open to American voters. They are displayed using a visual metaphor that makes the location of the options easy to remember -- two decks of playing cards.

The options are grouped under eight umbrella themes, each linked to a suit of cards. The options are grouped under eight umbrella themes, each corresponding to a different suit of cards in one of the two decks:

        Deck 1
          Livelihoods
          Health & Welfare
          Security
          Civil & Political Rights
        Deck 2
          Economy
          Local/State Government
          Federal Government
          International Relations

A complete list of the titles of the 100+ basic policy options are displayed below on the Key to Deck 1 and Key to Deck 2 below.

The cards and the textual descriptions of each policy option contained on each card are displayed below the keys.

As you will see by comparing the options, they cover a wide range of possibilities that advocate divergent and even diametrically opposed policy choices. If you wish, you can propose adding your own options to the Joker Pool below.

You can evaluate these options by clicking on the links at the bottom of each card. They connect you to current sources of online information analyzing their pros and cons from different points of view and ideologies.

You can create your policy agenda in several ways.

Once the website is fully automated, you will be able to check the box beneath each card that represents a policy option that you advocate to protect your vital interests. You can then proceed to the bottom of the page and select the elected representatives or candidates to whom you want your agenda sent, or people who are in your online address book. Your agenda will be automatically sent by email from this website.

You will be able to add your own comments to your agenda and give elected representatives and candidates for office instructions regarding specific pieces of legislation you support or oppose. You will also be able to save your agenda in your personal archive on this website.

In the meantime, to select your options, right click on the cards with the issues and options that are most important to you. Copy and paste your cards into emails using the software on your own computer addressed to your elected representatives at local, state and federal levels with detailed instructions for protecting your livelihood and vital interests. Email them to candidates for office, your political party, labor union, friends, family and co-workers.

Reset Policy Priorities at All Levels of Government

Voice your priorities nationally by contributing your agenda and policy preferences to the Citizens' Winning Hands Opinion Polls.

Build Winning Voting Blocs

By contributing your agenda and policy options to the polls, you become entitled to use the poll's database to locate people with similar agendas who have expressed interest in building coalitions. You can join forces with them to build winning voting blocs that run and elect candidates for office who will enact your agendas into law.

For detailed instructions on how you can use these tools and services, which are free of charge to individual American voters and their coalitions and voting blocs, click here to access the Ten Steps. For detailed instructions on emailing your cards using your own email software, click here.

 

     
  LIVELIHOODS HEALTH & WELFARE SECURITY CIVIL & POLITICAL RIGHTS ECONOMY LOCAL/STATE GOVERNMENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS  
A
Jobs, Tax Cuts & the Economy Affordable Health Care "War on Terror" (Pro) Campaign Finance Reform (Pro) Investment Tax Cuts Property Tax Executive Power Weapons of Mass Destruction
A
2
Job Availability Health Savings Accounts "War on Terror" (Con) Campaign Finance Reform (Con) Excess Profits Taxes Sales Tax Checks and Balances Wealth Gap, Poverty & Terrorism
2
3
Minimum Wage Social Security Global Epidemics/Natural Disasters Press, Speech & Assembly Free Enterprise/Entrepreneurship Corporate Tax Federal Debt and Budget Deficit Islamic Radicalism
3
4
Competitiveness & Outsourcing Medicare Crime Reduction Electronic Surveillance Economic Globalization (Pro) Income Tax Tax Burden (Middle Class) Geneva Convention (Pro)
4
5
Gas & Home Heating Prices Entitlements Gun Control (Pro) Internet Access & Digital Rights Economic Globalization (Con) Public School Alternatives Tax Burden (Wealthy) Geneva Convention (Con)
5
6
Jobs & Trade Protection Social Safety Net for the Poor Gun Control (Con) Patriot Act (Pro) Green Economy/Renewable Energy School Finance Electoral College (Pro) World Bank (Pro)
6
7
Rugged Individualism (Pro) Abortion Rights (Pro) Death Penalty (Pro) Patriot Act (Con) Privatization of the Commons (Pro) Gay Marriage (Pro) Electoral College (Con) World Bank (Con)
7
8
Rugged Individualism (Con) Abortion Rights (Con) Death Penalty (Con) Electronic Voting Privatization of the Commons (Con) Gay Marriage (Con) Foreign Policy Israel/Palestine (Pro) Development & Microfinance
8
9
Affordable Retirement Higher Education Loans Global Warming/Kyoto Treaty Discrimination Trade Deficit Social Enterprise Investment Foreign Policy Israel/Palestine (Con) WTO (Pro)
9
10
Interest Rates Medical Liability Reform Detention & Rendition (Pro) Immigrant Rights (Pro) Government Regulation (Pro) National Guard & First Responders Foreign Policy Iraq (Pro) WTO (Con)
10
J
Trade Unions (Pro) HMOs Detention & Rendition (Con) Immigrant Rights (Con) Government Regulation (Con) Eminent Domain Foreign Policy Iraq (Con) UN & Peacekeeping (Pro)
J
Q
Trade Unions (Con) Stem Cell Research (Pro) Military Force (Pro) Cruel/Inhuman Treatment (Pro) Local Living Economies (Pro) Redistricting Foreign Aid (Pro) UN & Peacekeeping (Con)
Q
K
Affordable Housing Stem Cell Research (Con) Military Force (Con) Cruel/Inhuman Treatment (Con) Local Living Economies (Con) State-Mandated Insurance & Pensions Foreign Aid (Con) U.S. & Global Resources
K
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DECK 1
     
DECK 2
     
LIVELIHOODS HEALTH & WELFARE SECURITY CIVIL & POLITICAL RIGHTS ECONOMY  LOCAL/STATE GOVERNMENT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

 
















 
















 
















 
















 
















 
















 
















 
















 















 
















 
















 
















 















 
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