Let's fix the country
Dirtie_Frank
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What are a few things you would do to fix the country? My list is:
Put a term limit on congress, maybe a total of 10 consecutive years.
Put a limit on lifetime benefits for congress and presidents
legalize Marijuana
drill for oil and at the same time start building wind and solar power
What about you?
Put a term limit on congress, maybe a total of 10 consecutive years.
Put a limit on lifetime benefits for congress and presidents
legalize Marijuana
drill for oil and at the same time start building wind and solar power
What about you?
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98 CAA
00 Virginia Beach;Camden I; Jones Beach III
05 Borgata Night I; Wachovia Center
06 Letterman Show; Webcast (guy in blue shirt), Camden I; DC
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prosecute bush administration war criminals and banksters,
withdraw ALL troops and military bases around the world,
destroy the for-profit insurance companies and start universal healthcare,
down with citizens united,
no tax exemptions for churches,
ban the teaching of creationism in public schools,
amend the constitution to recognize gays as equal human beings deserving of all rights and privileges,
oh OF COURSE legalize pot....
but common sense isn't too common in 'Merica, so we'll ignore all these obvious answers
Reduce the Federal Government
Bring all the troops home from bases around the world
Quit supporting Israel
Listen to the people and not special interests with big money that wish to have laws fixed so they get special treatment.
Cut spending... use it to help Americans... not foreign entities
Leave Iran alone
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Increase local economy.
Revitalize and expand our railroad system.
Form cooperative committees with other countries to find ways to reduce anthropogenic climate change/global warming.
Build walkable communities.
Reduce oil consumption, move toward more cleaner energy use and encourage less consumption of natural resources and all energy sources.
Create a system of interconnected wild lands across the continent. (See Wildlands Network)
Move from oil based corporate agriculture to greatly increased local organic farming.
Legalize marijuana.
Legalize same sex marriage.
Improve our educational system with a greater focus on critical thinking. Revitalizing creative arts programs in schools.
Guarantee no one goes without basic necessities- food water, clothing and shelter.
Create quite zones around the country where only natural sounds occur (would require some no-flight path zones). (See Gordon Hempton: One Square Inch of Silence)
Transition our military from away from being offensive system to a defensive one.
Make gun ownership much more difficult and restrict shooting to specific zones that do not interfere with the peace and quite of residences.
Re-institute separation of church and state.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
I could go on and on.
I did. :oops: :roll:
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
Edited my original, too. :corn:
After I wrote my list I thought about a few lines from the movie "Shrink" which I saw last night:
Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey being interviewed): "It's all bullshit. It's all bullshit, and then you die."
George Charles (Played by Gore Vidal interviewing Spacey's character): "We knew that going in."
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
You'd probably like it. It's a movie of our time.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
This mainly.
People not being so hard line D or R and actually caring more about the real issues, other than the things that Fox or MSNBC tries to sell their bases.
I wish more people would love each other and equal rights and respect were given to all citizens.
I wish less people would think of the US government as a means to pay for their entire life, and everyone believed in working hard and chipping in. Not saying anyone who takes govt handouts is lazy, but let's be honest there's a decent percentage who feel entitled to getting free everything.
Overhaul the entire tax code.
You seem to be in pretty fair company here on this issue- it's frequently mentioned. But as I stop and think about it- I wonder what percentage of people in the general US populous rely on "government hand out" for their "entire life" and of those who do rely solely on government aid, what percentage of them do so when they could be earning there own way. I've lived and been all over the U.S. and of all the people I know and have know I honestly can't think of very many people who fit that description (and, yes, I've lived in several poor neighborhoods). To my experience, this seems like an issue that is overstated and I wonder why that is.
The other thing I find interesting is the notion that those who do receive assistance are so often referred to as lazy people who not not chip in and work hard. I'm sure there are people like that but what about the people who would give anything to have their life back and be able to work again? And what about all the people who are over-paid for the non-productive work they do? Or the people who boss other people around and make scads more money than the ones who do the real work? Or people who make a ton of money off investing and call that "hard work"? I know people who work hard at investing but that's not the same as hard work (if you get what I'm saying). Waiting tables, cleaning motel rooms, loading and unloading merchandise, being a roadie... that's hard, mostly under-paid work.
I'm not trying to dismiss your point about a small percentage of people who get something for nothing or start another "thread war"- I'm just suggesting maybe taking in a broader, more balance picture here.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
the reason there is only two partys in the U.S. is because it uses a first past the post system of voting, if america used a PR system of voting instead there would defiantly be at least three partys probably more
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger's_law
Libertarians?
"With our thoughts we make the world"
It would have to be a new party, with no stigmas attached.
Libertarians are always deemed as being overly radical, and people whose ideas go ignored because they don't have a chance of winning to begin with.
If this 3rd party wants to be in contention they can't be overly radical. They would just have to be based on the fiscal ideas of the republicans and the social ideas of the democrats. Anything more and it will scare people away and the party will lose the majority running.
It's just that with stigmas, they're always attached by others, sometimes in ridiculously farfetched ways.
Damned agendas.
I like what you say up there. I hope it's something that could, in time, come to fruition, stigma-free.
1) end for-profit prisons. It might sound odd, but since prisons are privately-owned, profit-making machines, the only way for those companies to have "growth" is to have more inmates and open more prisons. This means that the owners of the companies must give massive donations to politicians to create more laws, longer prison sentences and a HUGE percentage of our population in prison.
THAT is why pot is illegal. Because the owners of for-profit prisons want to keep it a crime.
THAT is who funded Jan Brewer's silly "papers please" law... one that would potentially send legal American citizens to jail simply for not having their passport with them.
2) End citizens United. Give government back to the people.
3) End all tax breaks for churches. While at one point, churches were given those tax breaks so they could feed to poor, it's resulted in churches just taking "tax-free" money donations (that are tax-deductions for the people who donate them) and using them to fund political actions. If you believe in God, you don't need a castle to worship in. if you believe in God, you can pray in your house.
4) End the influence of the church on laws and education. If you want to open a school for your religion, pay for it yourself. But a public school shouldn't be bullied into teaching or not teaching biology, human sexuality or history by people who believe in "god." Don't force your delusions on the rest of us.
--but also--
1) Change laws concerning drug manufacturers. Advertising directly to the patients has lead to a country full of people who have gone to their doctors and demanded drugs they don't need... a population on anti-depressants, ADHD meds, antibiotics that have created drug-resistant viruses that will most likely eventually wipe out the human race.
yeah.....common sense seems to be a mystery all over the place. :shock:
Godfather.