BF2S Forums Which would Americans like to see first.

usmarine2007 wrote:

Robbie77 wrote:

whats the point of a wall nobody in canada even wants to go to the states....

Hmmm...I guess I was imagining things when we were drinking with 5 Canadians on Saturday in Miami.

ughhhhh i meant illegally @#$% how many canadians sneak across the border for work?

what was that sigh?

thanks_champ wrote:

You should really have added banking reform to that poll. Removing the Federal Reserve System should be the single most important issue to Americans with the predicted economic 2007 crash and depression. Fix that first, then look at those other issues.

Whats wrong with the Fed? Regulating banks and controlling inflation seems like a big positive. We need someone to try and temper the inflationary pressures created by discretionary fiscal policy. Sorry I'm not in a position to watch the video at the moment.

HEll with all of you.. I would like a drink.. im going back to The Bar...

p.s great post Mason

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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I'd like to see government agencies stop racing to spend their entire annual budget each year to retain or increase that influx of money.

I agree, I saw that alot in the Army.. spend spend.. so we can get more .. I was like WTF

Ban gay marriage?  That's so fucking unAmerican it's funny and sick at the same time.  I'm not going to explain why because if you're ignorant enough not to see then you wouldn't care if I did anyways.

Da_Killer_NoooooooB wrote:

Kinda wonder why someone posted to shut down NASA? It has faced severe lack of support for its true mission, to reach beyond the limits of this planet, but the Space Administration has a serious part in our futures. We have the ability to really screw this planet up, & we've been exercising that option, Earth has taken some major abuse at humanities hands, & we can never rule out the asteroid / comet / space debris impaction possibilities. Would be nice to know we can expand out into the Galaxy someday, & that there is hope for Mankind yet.
    I like the idea of all likely candidates, apply, we vote down to 3, then it goes to lottery drawing. Candidates would be well aware of the Judicial system, have a Law background, but never have been involved in politics before. They would not have the "Good Ole' Boy" connections, but they also would not have those "Obligations" (Remember George, we got you into office, now throw us the bones!)
    At the end of their term, vote to the public, 3 ways:
      1) Jail 'Em
      2) Pay them, thank them, send them on their merry way
      3) Re-Elect for another term

Why do they have to have law backgrounds?  Don't you realize that most of the political nut jobs in office right now are lawyers, and the one's that aren't so bad are something else?  Example:  Hillary, Obama, Bill, W. Bush, Kerry all went to harvard or yale, and they are all nuts.  Then there's Reagan who was an actor, Carter who was a Nuclear Engineer, Frist who was a Doctor.  I don't like lawyers, nor do many other Americans.  Lawyers and the judicial system in general is beginning to make me sick.  I like engineers, I like scientists, I like people who are trained to think logically, rationally, and analytically to solve problems in clear and deliberate steps.

Oh, and the whole thing with shutting down NASA... seriously people.  NASA is the closest thing we have to a contingency for oh so many situations.  You know all those doomsday movies we see, with the awesome space ship that saves the day... who's built that ship??? NASA has.  NASA used to consume 4 percent of the US budget during the Apollo years, now its just a few tenths of a percent.  If we funded NASA like it needs to be we'd be much much farther along technologically.  Hell, funding has been cut back so much that NASA's new vehicle is going to be a capsule type ship.  Its good to know that our space program has moved backward.  So maybe we are shutting down NASA anyway, simply through financial castration.

A balanced budget (having to do with reinstating and even raising the Corporate Minimum Tax) followed closely by a hybrid public/private healthcare.  That is, allow public healthcare with the option and mobility to pick private doctors.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

A balanced budget (having to do with reinstating and even raising the Corporate Minimum Tax) followed closely by a hybrid public/private healthcare.  That is, allow public healthcare with the option and mobility to pick private doctors.

I was thinking less government spending would be the fastest route to balancing the budget.  Get out of Iraq, and limit future military involvements to the bare minimum required for supporting our interests.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

I don't think it is necessarily government spending that needs to be curtailed, but more where our money goes.  And this goes for anyone who has strong feelings about taxation.  45-50% of our annual budget goes toward defense spending.  Now, I am all for paying troops a higher wage than they get now (after all, they are risking their lives), but I don't agree with the military-industrial complex.  If we were to cut down on pet project defense spending and start making large corporations pay tax, (and maybe *gasp* make it mandatory for anyone working 40 hours/week to be covered under corporate health care) I believe we would be well on our way to having a budget surplus (to pay off all that debt that we incurred with our defense spending).  Plus we would be on our way to some sort of universal health care (that is, corporations footing the bill for full-time employees).

As for the "future military involvements to the bare minimum required for supporting our interests," well, I do not see that happening in the near future.  The way our government (and most large bureaucracies) works is very reactively.  As in, 1989 USSR is attempting to expand their sphere of influence, better help the mujahideen.  Fast forward 20 years later, and we have created a monster- our favorite Middle Eastern demon Osama.

Very good post.  I despise the military industrial complex as well, which is the main reason I was against the War with Iraq.

The only part I have to disagree with you on is the universal healthcare part.  I prefer keeping it privatized.  I think the private sector tends to serve our needs better than the government does in most regards.

Kmarion wrote:

The trade deficit has been reduced for the third straight month while tax cuts remain in place, go figure.
Lower taxes> more consumer spending> more taxes. Make sense? Also don't forget when these tax cuts were put in place the economy was in shambles after 9/11. Consider where the economy is now and you may begin to understand that despite some bad decisions this administration has made, they appear to have gotten this one right. Now if they only had a plan for the border...hmm

I agree with tax cuts, and after seeing how much revenue was generated by the cuts in 2005, it just pissed me off to see us blow the budget with war.  Tax revenue rose to something like 2.15 trillion, but spending went up to like 2.45 trillion.  In other words, we ran up a massive debt that was in the hundreds of billions.

My firm belief is that supply side economics could work, if only the Republicans knew how to do it without getting us into continual warfare.

Select gov officals pay....wish i could choose more than one...I wouldn't want to nesicarily end welfare, because some people really need it, I'd just like to see it be made harder to get it, because alot of people get on it and never try getting back on their feet.