Our+Platform

=The Reformation Party's Platform =

**1. War in Iraq:**

 * ======We are against the war because of the damage it has brought to the American People, it has cost the American people lives, money, and wasted time that could be better spent on advancing our economy and helping our own country rather than worrying about everyone else ======
 * ======Since 2003 there have been 31,716 deaths of American Soldiers fighting in the war. ======


 * ======This war has cost America billions of dollars, an approximation of $712,215,860,999 has been spent on the war efforts since 2003 ======
 * ======“//But there is no good evidence to support the claim that Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda and would have given the group WMD to be used against the United States."// Commented Charles V. Peña, MA, Director of Defense Policy Studies. ======
 * ======Ending the war in Iraq would, history suggests, help lift the mood of consumers and investors whose fears now deepen the economic problem therefore spiking the economy once more. ======


 * ======In the main, we need to make it more attractive for businesses to produce goods and services in the United States, rather than overseas. By using U.S. workers, rather than foreigners we can keep the business in the US and help our economy grow. ======
 * ======The administration must also make a few adjustments to its fiscal policy with the aim of creating jobs through faster economic growth. ======
 * ======It should also consider a WPA-style project to upgrade our infrastructure, which is labor-intensive by nature. ======
 * ======Offering tax credits for education and training would be helpful as well, since domestic employees must add more value to their jobs than their foreign counterparts do, in order to justify their higher rates of pay. ======
 * ======There were 2.7 million job openings on the last business day of January 2010. The job openings rate rose over the month to 2.1 percent, the highest the rate has been since February 2009 ======
 * ======The hires rate (3.1 percent) and the separations rate (3.2 percent) were unchanged in January. ======
 * ======Total compensation costs for civilian workers increased 0.5 percent, seasonally adjusted, from September to December 2009. For the year ended December 2009, compensation costs, wages and salaries, and benefit costs each rose 1.5 percent ======


 * ======Against Stem Cell Research because this new technology could cause an overpopulation of the earth, leading to many disasters ======
 * ======They kill embryos which is also known as murder, to use the unassigned cells to create new body parts ======
 * ======Unless completely differentiated prior to use in patients, these stem cells will migrate throughout the body to produce tumors. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">20% of the cases that were tested on mice in attempt to treat for Parkinson’s gave the mice brain tumors and they died ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">This process of building a new body part to extend the life of one destroys the life of the baby being used. It is not our place to decide which life is more important ======


 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Gay marriage is legal in Canada, Sweden, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Spain, South Africa, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">If gay marriage was okay, the human race would be able to reproduce through both means and both means of sexual intercourse would be healthy and natural. ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Homosexual intercourse carries a high risk of disease. ======


 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Underfunded ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Educators have been instructed to teach to the test causing limited knowledge in students, making them ill-prepared for the fast paced college life ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">States can set their own standards to compensate for the loss ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Fails to address lack of achievement reasons ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Program formed after the British A-Levels, where each child takes a final exam each year and one large final exam at the end of their high school career. ======


 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Recycling saves energy ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">US is the number 1 trash producing nation ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1609 lb of trash per person per year ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">recycling saves money and creates jobs ======


 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The US does not have a universal health care system, and we plan to change that ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">15.8% of Americans are uninsured ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Out of the 84.2% of Americans with insurance, 9.1% purchased individual insurance ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">More than 40 million adults did not receive treatment needed due to lack of insurance ======
 * ======<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Prohibit insurance companies from not giving someone insurance because they are already sick ======