Reply #2: I'll byte [View All]

Education: our system sucks. It is way underfunded. we train people to kill much better than we teach them to read - and that is before they enlist in the military. Our leave no kid's behind program is a horrific unfunded mandate which creates artificial bullshit, disguised as a standard. Smaller classes, better teacher salaries, and instead of soccermomming the kids' time into 18 hour days, give them time to play, learn, digest and progress. MANY MANY problems.

Health Care: There is only one answer for a mature, secure and productive society. Universal health care. Nothing less.

"Cultural" Issues(ex. gay marriage): Who cares? People are people. Why should anyone stick their nose into other people's business? People MUSt be allowed to live their own lives, so long as there is no personal damage or injury to another.

Trade Policy: Ahhhh. tough. In the colonies, the the commerce clause required the states to drop all state regs creating bars, tariffs and more against other states. It worked fine. (although those battles continued into the 1980s, and still continue on wine/liquor mail sales.) Has society or the economic situation changed? Of course. Is planning a good thing? What, like the ssoviet 5 yr plans? (bad joke) I can still see advantages from trade, but I can see the horrible damage. On the other hand, the pony express went out of business the minute that iron horse took over.


Economic Regulation: Sorry. I am too stupid to understand. If this means corporate tax policy, capital gains and corporate regulation, sure we need it if it means tax policies on individuals, sure we need to pay it. If it means controlling economics with non-economic regs, like the USSR tried to do, ehhhhhhh. no.

Enviroment: only insane people kill themselves. WE must be insane.

Military Policy: unfortunately, we have war. We therefore need to protect ourselves. Invading Iraq is the antithesis of protecting our country or our democracy, way of life, etc.