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Let's see, when you've got a fat ass government that makes trillions of dollars a year in taxes and it has forty million people uninsured people who are under the "get well or die" program what do you think is the right thing to do?
Heh... He's already run out of infantile insults... We must be taxing his tiny brain.
Justin Timberlake?
Meh, it sounds nice in theory, but it hardly ever works that way. More people rather help themselves than help others.
Being able to AFFORD something doesn't mean that it will work or that it is the BEST thing for the people. Self sufficiency and responsibility is what builds strong societies. Do you know who the people without healthcare are? They are the people who've bought into the idea that it's someone ELSE who is responsible for them. THAT is a very destructive idea.
What about all those people in hurricane Katrina? I guess that was just a hand out?
I'll bet it would help you out a lot.Yeah, dying is what's best for the people.
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Hmmm....a few thoughts:
In short, let's fix this place!
- Kill the "No Child Allowed To Excel" program and get teachers back to actually teaching our kids rather than preparing them to regurgitate competency exam answers. Special attention to math, sciences, English and music and art programs. We are falling behind the rest of the world when it comes to preparing our kids for success, thereby endangering our own future as a nation.
- Map out a proper, realistic exit strategy for Iraq with the help of people who actually understand the culture and environment there and in the rest of the Middle East so as to minimize negative impact and make the most of the situation overall.
- Kill all the lobbyists. Corporate America runs our government right now and that has to end. They aren't serving the public's best interests. They're serving their own.
- Economic reform that takes the middle and lower economic classes into consideration. The wealth in this country needs to start being redistributed back out to them.
- Legalize marijuana and regulate and tax it just like tobacco and alcohol. I'm not a pot smoker or even a real advocate, but we've wasted far too many dollars on the "War On Pot" and convicted way too many young people for a drug no more evil than alcohol it on the "three strikes" laws, which have overcrowded our jails and prisons even more than they are.
- Prison reform. Far too many luxuries like cable television, gaming systems, specialty food menus, internet and computer access, etc. have been afforded to them. Prison shouldn't be a place people want to go to, which is not the case currently for many people. The people in prisons should be made to work hard, get an opportunity to educate and reform themselves and pay their debt to society. It shouldn't be a glorified dorm or country club.
- Repair our foreign relations policies. Our government has acted like complete jackasses for the past eight years, where the rest of the world is concerned. We have a big public image problem with our peers that needs some serious attention through diplomacy and a bit of humility. We aren't the world's police, though there are instances where it makes sense for us to provide help, such as in Darfur, not for political or economic gain but because it's the right thing to do for humanity.
- Focus on problems at home. We have problems with mid to high level jobs being offshored en masse. That has to stop. We have homelessness, drug problems of epidemic proportions with crack and meth, education system issues, race and economic class issues, and so forth. Instead of being the world's police each and every chance we get, these things need to be addressed.
- Fix the budget. We went from the largest economic surplus in history to the worst deficit we've ever seen in a little over two years when Bush entered office. We must start addressing this debt immediately.
- Restructure social security so that it will be truly viable for the future.
- Health care reform. Costs for insurance coverage and deductibles, medical care and prescription drugs are astronomically high, and for no real reason other than the folks running the show can get away with it. Something has to change to make medical care and prescription medications more accessible to the American population. I don't know that socialized medicine is the solution, but a task force to investigate the situation and come up with some solutions needs to be formed
- Protection of our citizen's civil liberties and free speech. No more wire tapping schemes. No more NSA Carnivore programs. No more camera systems all over Manhattan. No more squashing people's political views just because the differ from mine. Everyone should have their say in this country, even if they are wrong.
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