By Paul Engstrom
Customers at California Avenue Palo Alto Farmers Market on Feb 18, where Kip and I passed out Occupy Palo Alto flyers, were asked to write their opinions and responses on notepaper handed out on clipboards.
Here are their verbatim written comments and concerns:–
1) – less money for presidential campaigns.
– more money for schools.
2) – immigration,
– financial responsibility for Wall Street”.
3)- more progressive local candidates and on at State level too.
– support Obama tax on millionaires
– encourage support for teachers (why do software engineers make more than people who teach children?– lot more!
– leave women alone–pass laws against men’s promiscuity and violence against women
4) – there should be tax breaks for corporations that help their employees with their families local schools and with healthcare
– more resources and job training for single mothers,-assistance with housing and health care
– healthcare should help with costs of nurse practitioners–with help in purchase and maintenance of vans for mobility handicapped–elderly
5) My complaints are not with Palo Alto but with California. we have arguably the most beautiful sate in the USA,-which is also the most technologically advanced, yet we have the worst educational systems, with the largest classes and least spending per student. I would like Calif Govt to focus on all things related to education.”
6) – Make healthcare in hospitals more efficient by paying Registered Nurse Practitioners rather than doctors for some tasks.
– Remove 50% of the administration budget from schools by cutting salaries and positions and put the same amount into hiring teachers. Eliminate SAT testing altogether and replace by a meaningful high school graduation exam,
– Make corporations that buy foreclosed private homes, provide affordable housing to retired tenants for their lifetime.
Paul E: I think Occupy Palo Alto GA should take up idea of an increase of “public presence” of Occupy Palo Alto at the California Avevue Farmers Market such as–perhaps a table with information literature,perhaps a small portable bulletin board with announcements of events, activities of various Occupy groups?
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