My Top Ten Issues I would Like to See Candidates Address

[TNHarley]

1) The Open Borders policies of the past four administrations have been a collossal failure and continue to put the public at risk of imported disease, criminal networks, underground networks of safe houses, forgery, etc, that terrorists can and probably are currently using. This is one of the handful of federal responsibilities given to the feds under the Constitution and they cant get even this much right.

2) Working Class wages, after taxes and inflation, have fallen slightly while those of the top ten percent have climbed since 1973. This has caused a lag in the growth of the consumer market in constant dollars that has crippled the world economy as the US consumer market had been the engine pulling the rest of the world along till the Fed economic policies began to favor cannabalizing the working class. IT also undermines the case against democratic socialism. If the Wall Street banks can get free money, why cant the rest of us?

3) Corporate Donations have corrupted our political system and the Congress. For obvious reasons this needs to be addressed and is likely the underlying cause to all our other problems.

4) The Federal government has begun playing spin games with its economic data that is so wild it simply abandons even a fig leaf of factuality and accuracy to the point that they have become useless as either a reflection of our economy nor in raising confidence in that economy. When the home team can freely change the score on the scoreboard, no one pays any attention to it. This obviously needs to be removed from partisan influence.

5) When Wall Street banks got a free gift of $4 TRILLION in Quantitative Easing purchases, the banks made out like bandits, giving huge bonus checks to its employees while the rest of America was suffering. Why cant we spread ore of this Federali free money around? This program has completely destroyed conservative arguments against targeted federal relief when they sat silent on this record setting give away. More Socialism is going to come our way, bet on it, but this time for everyone. What form will it take and who divies out the gifts this time?

6) The suicide rate of our veterans testifies to the scandalous treatment of our veterans and guarantees that more and more it will be the case that only the dregs of society will serve in our nations armed forces unless the underlying causes are addressed. How can we cut veteran programs and have long lists of veterans dying while waiting treatment or freezing on our nations streets homeless while we give away millions to illegal liens and so-called refugees? And is it wise to have a professional army that increasingly feels little love or loyalty to its civilian population?

7) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

8) Heroin addiction has sky rocketed in part due to the addictiveness and over prescription of Opioid pain killers. That must be reviewed and modified somehow. Obviously letting doctors do whatever the hell they want, in this case making profits by prescribing pain killers, must be revised and reviewed.

9) The resurgence of wild animals is a success story, but it also is causing an explosion of problems that the media is ignoring. We need to allow farmers to hunt/kill animals on their property in and out of season to protect their crops and prevent the spread of animal born diseases. More effort at revising animal protection laws to allow them to be culled is necessary or animal attacks on civilians will soon become spiked for being all too common.

10) Obesity and nutrition advisement needs an overhaul. The emphasis on carbohydrates needs to be reduced to a low carb intake diet, as the reliance on carbs is a pre-WW2 nutritional standard that in todays postwar success we have seen has caused an explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in response.

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

 

[daws101]

1) The Open Borders policies of the past four administrations have been a collossal failure and continue to put the public at risk of imported disease, criminal networks, underground networks of safe houses, forgery, etc, that terrorists can and probably are currently using. This is one of the handful of federal responsibilities given to the feds under the Constitution and they cant get even this much right.

2) Working Class wages, after taxes and inflation, have fallen slightly while those of the top ten percent have climbed since 1973. This has caused a lag in the growth of the consumer market in constant dollars that has crippled the world economy as the US consumer market had been the engine pulling the rest of the world along till the Fed economic policies began to favor cannabalizing the working class. IT also undermines the case against democratic socialism. If the Wall Street banks can get free money, why cant the rest of us?

3) Corporate Donations have corrupted our political system and the Congress. For obvious reasons this needs to be addressed and is likely the underlying cause to all our other problems.

4) The Federal government has begun playing spin games with its economic data that is so wild it simply abandons even a fig leaf of factuality and accuracy to the point that they have become useless as either a reflection of our economy nor in raising confidence in that economy. When the home team can freely change the score on the scoreboard, no one pays any attention to it. This obviously needs to be removed from partisan influence.

5) When Wall Street banks got a free gift of $4 TRILLION in Quantitative Easing purchases, the banks made out like bandits, giving huge bonus checks to its employees while the rest of America was suffering. Why cant we spread ore of this Federali free money around? This program has completely destroyed conservative arguments against targeted federal relief when they sat silent on this record setting give away. More Socialism is going to come our way, bet on it, but this time for everyone. What form will it take and who divies out the gifts this time?

6) The suicide rate of our veterans testifies to the scandalous treatment of our veterans and guarantees that more and more it will be the case that only the dregs of society will serve in our nations armed forces unless the underlying causes are addressed. How can we cut veteran programs and have long lists of veterans dying while waiting treatment or freezing on our nations streets homeless while we give away millions to illegal liens and so-called refugees? And is it wise to have a professional army that increasingly feels little love or loyalty to its civilian population?

7) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

8) Heroin addiction has sky rocketed in part due to the addictiveness and over prescription of Opioid pain killers. That must be reviewed and modified somehow. Obviously letting doctors do whatever the hell they want, in this case making profits by prescribing pain killers, must be revised and reviewed.

9) The resurgence of wild animals is a success story, but it also is causing an explosion of problems that the media is ignoring. We need to allow farmers to hunt/kill animals on their property in and out of season to protect their crops and prevent the spread of animal born diseases. More effort at revising animal protection laws to allow them to be culled is necessary or animal attacks on civilians will soon become spiked for being all too common.

10) Obesity and nutrition advisement needs an overhaul. The emphasis on carbohydrates needs to be reduced to a low carb intake diet, as the reliance on carbs is a pre-WW2 nutritional standard that in todays postwar success we have seen has caused an explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in response.

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

39.1 percent is less than most upper middle class family pay 39.6
only an asshole would say that's fair or corporation pay too much

 

[Care4all]

1) The Open Borders policies of the past four administrations have been a collossal failure and continue to put the public at risk of imported disease, criminal networks, underground networks of safe houses, forgery, etc, that terrorists can and probably are currently using. This is one of the handful of federal responsibilities given to the feds under the Constitution and they cant get even this much right.

2) Working Class wages, after taxes and inflation, have fallen slightly while those of the top ten percent have climbed since 1973. This has caused a lag in the growth of the consumer market in constant dollars that has crippled the world economy as the US consumer market had been the engine pulling the rest of the world along till the Fed economic policies began to favor cannabalizing the working class. IT also undermines the case against democratic socialism. If the Wall Street banks can get free money, why cant the rest of us?

3) Corporate Donations have corrupted our political system and the Congress. For obvious reasons this needs to be addressed and is likely the underlying cause to all our other problems.

4) The Federal government has begun playing spin games with its economic data that is so wild it simply abandons even a fig leaf of factuality and accuracy to the point that they have become useless as either a reflection of our economy nor in raising confidence in that economy. When the home team can freely change the score on the scoreboard, no one pays any attention to it. This obviously needs to be removed from partisan influence.

5) When Wall Street banks got a free gift of $4 TRILLION in Quantitative Easing purchases, the banks made out like bandits, giving huge bonus checks to its employees while the rest of America was suffering. Why cant we spread ore of this Federali free money around? This program has completely destroyed conservative arguments against targeted federal relief when they sat silent on this record setting give away. More Socialism is going to come our way, bet on it, but this time for everyone. What form will it take and who divies out the gifts this time?

6) The suicide rate of our veterans testifies to the scandalous treatment of our veterans and guarantees that more and more it will be the case that only the dregs of society will serve in our nations armed forces unless the underlying causes are addressed. How can we cut veteran programs and have long lists of veterans dying while waiting treatment or freezing on our nations streets homeless while we give away millions to illegal liens and so-called refugees? And is it wise to have a professional army that increasingly feels little love or loyalty to its civilian population?

7) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

8) Heroin addiction has sky rocketed in part due to the addictiveness and over prescription of Opioid pain killers. That must be reviewed and modified somehow. Obviously letting doctors do whatever the hell they want, in this case making profits by prescribing pain killers, must be revised and reviewed.

9) The resurgence of wild animals is a success story, but it also is causing an explosion of problems that the media is ignoring. We need to allow farmers to hunt/kill animals on their property in and out of season to protect their crops and prevent the spread of animal born diseases. More effort at revising animal protection laws to allow them to be culled is necessary or animal attacks on civilians will soon become spiked for being all too common.

10) Obesity and nutrition advisement needs an overhaul. The emphasis on carbohydrates needs to be reduced to a low carb intake diet, as the reliance on carbs is a pre-WW2 nutritional standard that in todays postwar success we have seen has caused an explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in response.

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

We truly do NOT have the highest corp tax in the world, the effective tax rate for corporations, which is what they ACTUALLY PAY in corp taxes, is one of the lowest corporate tax rates.... doesn't mean, that I don't agree that we need reform of our corporate taxes....we could reduce all of the tax deductions and subsidies, and simplify the corp tax rate where it would be lower on the initial marginal tax rate, where it represents more of what they actually pay once all the deductions and tax credits they get are applied, but not give them the credits, subsidies, and deductions....maybe more like a lower flat tax for them, or something of the sort.

But on the rest, corporate tax rate IS NOT the tax rate a hard working individual pays, the hard workers have to pay individual tax rates, again, NOT CORPORATE tax rates on what they've earned.

the offshore favoritism for American companies, needs reform.

 

[JimBowie1958]

We truly do NOT have the highest corp tax in the world, the effective tax rate for corporations, which is what they ACTUALLY PAY in corp taxes, is one of the lowest corporate tax rates.... doesn't mean, that I don't agree that we need reform of our corporate taxes....we could reduce all of the tax deductions and subsidies, and simplify the corp tax rate where it would be lower on the initial tax rate, where it represents more of what they actually pay once all the deductions and tax credits they get are applied, but not give them the credits, subsidies, and deductions....maybe more like a lower flat tax for them, or something of the sort.

But on the rest, corporate tax rate IS NOT the tax rate a hard working individual pays, the hard workers have to pay individual tax rates, again, NOT CORPORATE tax rates on what they've earned.

the offshore favoritism for American companies, needs reform.

We need to sweep away all corporate tax breaks while keeping the rate the same as it currently is and do one thing; give an additional tax write off at 25% or so of the corporate costs for American legal labor.

Almost all problems will solve themselves over night.

 

[Disgruntled_American]

Isn't it true that when presented with factual evidence, people do pay more attention? Before that, people don't care because they don't know and accept whatever they 'see' as advertised on the package label, tv commercials or some speculated discussion at the water cooler? Anyone that may know more facts usually know much more details than the average Joe's naïve beliefs and when brought up in contradiction to those beliefs, they will either believe, question their previous beliefs and/or demand facts to back it up. RIGHT? Since this is what you and others are doing right now.

The problem (which I have seen with both sides of the media) is that they take a fact and twist it's meaning or the interpretation of that fact.

An oddball reference, but to simplistically demonatrate

Our posts are mostly divisive in that we don't agree on WHO will actually fix those problems. You believe that the GOP will address those concerns at some time or in some way, but I don't think the GOP or Dems will address any of it at all. Also when I have disagreed with you, your comments to me are around the line of "You're an idiot" or "you are stupid", etc. I have addressed people how they address me.

You will find that if you address me with the same respect you want, I will do the same. I'll even let this post be the start and I will not address you in any way I don't want to be addressed. It is ok for people to disagree. Not everyone is going to think alike.

It depends onthe issue and how people react.

Take for example the Holder DOJ denying that they will prosecute blacks for hate crimes against whites, and libtards love that stuff. They revel in it as if inequality for white workers is somehow a good thing, whent he white workers of today are not the ones who did the bad deeds, but have supported the reforms like the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But now they are feeling to reverse racism coming and libtards mock them.

I dont care who you are, what party you are in, but if you do that, then I think you are a freaking idiot. But that is why the parties promote these brain dead injustices so that the people that benefit from them can laugh at the people victimized by them and this creates more division and is an old trick used by the elites world over to keep workers suppressed. That makes the happy dancers complete morons and I tell it like it is.

Rather than a thin veneer of civility we need to purge the bad policies and ideological positions that cause the division in the first place, like denying there is even hypothetical possibility of antiwhite discrimination.

Well again, we agree. This is one of the many areas I don't support Obama or his administration on. I could also point to some policies that the right continues to pursue that I think is idiotic, but I will refrain since you were specifically talking about Obama.

The major fault I give Obama over everything else is he isn't a true leader. A true leader inspires others, even on the other side, and doesn't divide. Now saying this, I don't think Trump or Cruz are leaders either because they are divisive as well in their statements. Rubio also may be divisive but he isn't as vocal about it to me. And don't even get me started on Hillary, she is just plain corrupt in all sense of the word. She is the embodiment of what is wrong with politics IMO.

 

[TNHarley]

1) The Open Borders policies of the past four administrations have been a collossal failure and continue to put the public at risk of imported disease, criminal networks, underground networks of safe houses, forgery, etc, that terrorists can and probably are currently using. This is one of the handful of federal responsibilities given to the feds under the Constitution and they cant get even this much right.

2) Working Class wages, after taxes and inflation, have fallen slightly while those of the top ten percent have climbed since 1973. This has caused a lag in the growth of the consumer market in constant dollars that has crippled the world economy as the US consumer market had been the engine pulling the rest of the world along till the Fed economic policies began to favor cannabalizing the working class. IT also undermines the case against democratic socialism. If the Wall Street banks can get free money, why cant the rest of us?

3) Corporate Donations have corrupted our political system and the Congress. For obvious reasons this needs to be addressed and is likely the underlying cause to all our other problems.

4) The Federal government has begun playing spin games with its economic data that is so wild it simply abandons even a fig leaf of factuality and accuracy to the point that they have become useless as either a reflection of our economy nor in raising confidence in that economy. When the home team can freely change the score on the scoreboard, no one pays any attention to it. This obviously needs to be removed from partisan influence.

5) When Wall Street banks got a free gift of $4 TRILLION in Quantitative Easing purchases, the banks made out like bandits, giving huge bonus checks to its employees while the rest of America was suffering. Why cant we spread ore of this Federali free money around? This program has completely destroyed conservative arguments against targeted federal relief when they sat silent on this record setting give away. More Socialism is going to come our way, bet on it, but this time for everyone. What form will it take and who divies out the gifts this time?

6) The suicide rate of our veterans testifies to the scandalous treatment of our veterans and guarantees that more and more it will be the case that only the dregs of society will serve in our nations armed forces unless the underlying causes are addressed. How can we cut veteran programs and have long lists of veterans dying while waiting treatment or freezing on our nations streets homeless while we give away millions to illegal liens and so-called refugees? And is it wise to have a professional army that increasingly feels little love or loyalty to its civilian population?

7) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

8) Heroin addiction has sky rocketed in part due to the addictiveness and over prescription of Opioid pain killers. That must be reviewed and modified somehow. Obviously letting doctors do whatever the hell they want, in this case making profits by prescribing pain killers, must be revised and reviewed.

9) The resurgence of wild animals is a success story, but it also is causing an explosion of problems that the media is ignoring. We need to allow farmers to hunt/kill animals on their property in and out of season to protect their crops and prevent the spread of animal born diseases. More effort at revising animal protection laws to allow them to be culled is necessary or animal attacks on civilians will soon become spiked for being all too common.

10) Obesity and nutrition advisement needs an overhaul. The emphasis on carbohydrates needs to be reduced to a low carb intake diet, as the reliance on carbs is a pre-WW2 nutritional standard that in todays postwar success we have seen has caused an explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in response.

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

39.1 percent is less than most upper middle class family pay 39.6
only an asshole would say that's fair or corporation pay too much

Yea, the high tax OBVIOUSLY works. So what if we are losing taxes, jobs, incentive and everything else that comes with businesses. Good job

 

[TNHarley]

1) The Open Borders policies of the past four administrations have been a collossal failure and continue to put the public at risk of imported disease, criminal networks, underground networks of safe houses, forgery, etc, that terrorists can and probably are currently using. This is one of the handful of federal responsibilities given to the feds under the Constitution and they cant get even this much right.

2) Working Class wages, after taxes and inflation, have fallen slightly while those of the top ten percent have climbed since 1973. This has caused a lag in the growth of the consumer market in constant dollars that has crippled the world economy as the US consumer market had been the engine pulling the rest of the world along till the Fed economic policies began to favor cannabalizing the working class. IT also undermines the case against democratic socialism. If the Wall Street banks can get free money, why cant the rest of us?

3) Corporate Donations have corrupted our political system and the Congress. For obvious reasons this needs to be addressed and is likely the underlying cause to all our other problems.

4) The Federal government has begun playing spin games with its economic data that is so wild it simply abandons even a fig leaf of factuality and accuracy to the point that they have become useless as either a reflection of our economy nor in raising confidence in that economy. When the home team can freely change the score on the scoreboard, no one pays any attention to it. This obviously needs to be removed from partisan influence.

5) When Wall Street banks got a free gift of $4 TRILLION in Quantitative Easing purchases, the banks made out like bandits, giving huge bonus checks to its employees while the rest of America was suffering. Why cant we spread ore of this Federali free money around? This program has completely destroyed conservative arguments against targeted federal relief when they sat silent on this record setting give away. More Socialism is going to come our way, bet on it, but this time for everyone. What form will it take and who divies out the gifts this time?

6) The suicide rate of our veterans testifies to the scandalous treatment of our veterans and guarantees that more and more it will be the case that only the dregs of society will serve in our nations armed forces unless the underlying causes are addressed. How can we cut veteran programs and have long lists of veterans dying while waiting treatment or freezing on our nations streets homeless while we give away millions to illegal liens and so-called refugees? And is it wise to have a professional army that increasingly feels little love or loyalty to its civilian population?

7) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

8) Heroin addiction has sky rocketed in part due to the addictiveness and over prescription of Opioid pain killers. That must be reviewed and modified somehow. Obviously letting doctors do whatever the hell they want, in this case making profits by prescribing pain killers, must be revised and reviewed.

9) The resurgence of wild animals is a success story, but it also is causing an explosion of problems that the media is ignoring. We need to allow farmers to hunt/kill animals on their property in and out of season to protect their crops and prevent the spread of animal born diseases. More effort at revising animal protection laws to allow them to be culled is necessary or animal attacks on civilians will soon become spiked for being all too common.

10) Obesity and nutrition advisement needs an overhaul. The emphasis on carbohydrates needs to be reduced to a low carb intake diet, as the reliance on carbs is a pre-WW2 nutritional standard that in todays postwar success we have seen has caused an explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in response.

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

We truly do NOT have the highest corp tax in the world, the effective tax rate for corporations, which is what they ACTUALLY PAY in corp taxes, is one of the lowest corporate tax rates.... doesn't mean, that I don't agree that we need reform of our corporate taxes....we could reduce all of the tax deductions and subsidies, and simplify the corp tax rate where it would be lower on the initial marginal tax rate, where it represents more of what they actually pay once all the deductions and tax credits they get are applied, but not give them the credits, subsidies, and deductions....maybe more like a lower flat tax for them, or something of the sort.

But on the rest, corporate tax rate IS NOT the tax rate a hard working individual pays, the hard workers have to pay individual tax rates, again, NOT CORPORATE tax rates on what they've earned.

the offshore favoritism for American companies, needs reform.

I think we should lower corp tax rate to about 10%. Cut out ALL loopholes, deductions and subsidies. Loosen that burdensome regulation, and not make them take the heat for shit they don't do. Onshore money is too vulnerable with our bloated bureaucracy.

 

[JimBowie1958]

1) The Open Borders policies of the past four administrations have been a collossal failure and continue to put the public at risk of imported disease, criminal networks, underground networks of safe houses, forgery, etc, that terrorists can and probably are currently using. This is one of the handful of federal responsibilities given to the feds under the Constitution and they cant get even this much right.

2) Working Class wages, after taxes and inflation, have fallen slightly while those of the top ten percent have climbed since 1973. This has caused a lag in the growth of the consumer market in constant dollars that has crippled the world economy as the US consumer market had been the engine pulling the rest of the world along till the Fed economic policies began to favor cannabalizing the working class. IT also undermines the case against democratic socialism. If the Wall Street banks can get free money, why cant the rest of us?

3) Corporate Donations have corrupted our political system and the Congress. For obvious reasons this needs to be addressed and is likely the underlying cause to all our other problems.

4) The Federal government has begun playing spin games with its economic data that is so wild it simply abandons even a fig leaf of factuality and accuracy to the point that they have become useless as either a reflection of our economy nor in raising confidence in that economy. When the home team can freely change the score on the scoreboard, no one pays any attention to it. This obviously needs to be removed from partisan influence.

5) When Wall Street banks got a free gift of $4 TRILLION in Quantitative Easing purchases, the banks made out like bandits, giving huge bonus checks to its employees while the rest of America was suffering. Why cant we spread ore of this Federali free money around? This program has completely destroyed conservative arguments against targeted federal relief when they sat silent on this record setting give away. More Socialism is going to come our way, bet on it, but this time for everyone. What form will it take and who divies out the gifts this time?

6) The suicide rate of our veterans testifies to the scandalous treatment of our veterans and guarantees that more and more it will be the case that only the dregs of society will serve in our nations armed forces unless the underlying causes are addressed. How can we cut veteran programs and have long lists of veterans dying while waiting treatment or freezing on our nations streets homeless while we give away millions to illegal liens and so-called refugees? And is it wise to have a professional army that increasingly feels little love or loyalty to its civilian population?

7) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

8) Heroin addiction has sky rocketed in part due to the addictiveness and over prescription of Opioid pain killers. That must be reviewed and modified somehow. Obviously letting doctors do whatever the hell they want, in this case making profits by prescribing pain killers, must be revised and reviewed.

9) The resurgence of wild animals is a success story, but it also is causing an explosion of problems that the media is ignoring. We need to allow farmers to hunt/kill animals on their property in and out of season to protect their crops and prevent the spread of animal born diseases. More effort at revising animal protection laws to allow them to be culled is necessary or animal attacks on civilians will soon become spiked for being all too common.

10) Obesity and nutrition advisement needs an overhaul. The emphasis on carbohydrates needs to be reduced to a low carb intake diet, as the reliance on carbs is a pre-WW2 nutritional standard that in todays postwar success we have seen has caused an explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in response.

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

39.1 percent is less than most upper middle class family pay 39.6
only an asshole would say that's fair or corporation pay too much

Yea, the high tax OBVIOUSLY works. So what if we are losing taxes, jobs, incentive and everything else that comes with businesses. Good job

Fair or not fair is kind of a subjective waste of time.

Why dont we just make it work for the American people by giving that as the ONLY tax break that corporations get; 25% of the cost of employing Americans.

 

[TNHarley]

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

39.1 percent is less than most upper middle class family pay 39.6
only an asshole would say that's fair or corporation pay too much

Yea, the high tax OBVIOUSLY works. So what if we are losing taxes, jobs, incentive and everything else that comes with businesses. Good job

Fair or not fair is kind of a subjective waste of time.

Why dont we just make it work for the American people by giving that as the ONLY tax break that corporations get; 25% of the cost of employing Americans.

I like it!

 

[Care4all]

1. immigration period. Someone needs to discuss how to actually solve the problem. Not enact insane policies with a history of failure.
2. hell yes. They need to promote fair trade and quit punishing wealthy people for being smart and ambitious. Also, immigration.
3. Fuck yes. Which it has been mentioned but not near enough.
4.Government accountability. Period
5. Fuck yes
6. Suicide period. Maybe when they are ignorantly rambling on about guns, they could mention that too.
7. Monsanto just got criminally charged in France. Good deal. GMOs are ok but need ot be labeled. They also have way to much power. A farmer getting sued because their chemicals blew on their land? Give me a fuckin break
8. agreed. Drugs are a problem. That's why we should legalize them. Honestly, the thought of heroin being legal is fuckin nuts, but going by history, usage would go down. Just like prohibition of alcohol.
9. agreed. I don't think its pressing, but should be addressed.
10. Advisement perhaps. But that's it. Its not the govts job to tell us what we should eat.

if you actually believe the wealthier are being punished, then please explain to me, WHY are the wealthier, the only people getting even 'more' wealthy? How exactly, is that "punishment"?

We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. We have policies that make them keep their money off shore. We have policies that keep them from investing here. We have policies that make small businesses hard to run. Onshore money is vulnerable. Redistribution freaks them out; a lot of them EARNED that money. All they hear is rhetoric about "we are going to get your money" Freaks them out. It would me!
We have TRILLIONS off-shore. Imagine how it would be if they weren't scared to bring it here?

39.1 percent is less than most upper middle class family pay 39.6
only an asshole would say that's fair or corporation pay too much

Yea, the high tax OBVIOUSLY works. So what if we are losing taxes, jobs, incentive and everything else that comes with businesses. Good job

Fair or not fair is kind of a subjective waste of time.

Why dont we just make it work for the American people by giving that as the ONLY tax break that corporations get; 25% of the cost of employing Americans.

I don't truly know enough about corporate taxes and write offs, subsidies, credits etc, to answer in a knowledgeable way, however.....

that 25% for hiring Americans seems like a good idea!

 

[I amso IR]

I saw general merit in 1 thru 6. The remaining 4 are State level problems IMO which in no way affects their importance or lack thereof. Open borders do assist the movement of heroin. Americans are generally, to mean just that, generally", earning a sustainable wage but are missing out on savings which generate wealth. That needs to be addressed from the savings point of view and the cost of that point. The interest paid on savings needs to be addressed. Suicide is a truly tough nut to crack. The medicine for every ailment thinking is a joke. The television advertisements bear that out. There are medicines for every possible problem are a sham, when in many cases simply growing up and lack of self motivation are the true problem. I have a difficult time with drug overdose as personal responsibility plays a huge role. Depression is a state of mind in which the self submits to it. All of us have been depressed but have worked our way out of it without jumping from a bridge or shooting up, IMO. Millions of GI's, myself included have over come the stress of war and have done it successfully. Drugs are a deadly crutch and in most cases a cop out. Sorry, that is my take. But yes, better assistance can and should be offered and must then be accepted by those needing it. As far as clouding spending and budgets and spinning details and results, good luck with that.

 

[JustAnotherNut]

) Monsanto has been designing GM crops that are two generation only crops, meaning that Monsanto will be able to grow one more generation, but farmers cant save seed for next years crops. As if that was bad enough, this genetic modification is a dominant gene, which over-rides neighboring crops that have become Monsanto gene carriers that make it illegal to use for next years crops anyway. Use of reduced generation crops and dominant GM strains must be made illegal before these greedy fucks turn ALL of our crops into one generation crops.

In my research for the other thread on this, I did find out that Monsanto didn't create the Terminator seed, but was a product of a company buy out. Monsanto now owns this & rights to it. And are probably continuing in their research & development of it, along with who knows what else. BUT they have 'promised' not to sell it commercially
Terminator seeds[edit]
Main article: Genetic use restriction technology
Genetic use restriction technology, colloquially known as "terminator technology", produces plants that have sterile seeds. If put into use, it would prevent the spread of those seeds into the wild. It also would prevent farmers from planting seeds they harvest, requiring them to repurchase seed for every planting, although they also need to do this for hybrid seeds, because second-generation seeds are inferior, and in cases of patented transgenic seeds, where patent-holders like Monsanto enter into contracts with farmers who agree not to plant harvested seeds as a condition of purchase.

Terminator technology has been developed by governmental labs, university researchers, and companies, sometimes in collaboration and sometimes independently.[161][162][163] The technology has never been known to have been used commercially.[164][165] Rumors that Monsanto and other companies intended to introduce terminator technology have caused protests, for example in India.[166][167]

In 1999, Monsanto pledged not to commercialize terminator technology, and has displayed that pledge on its website to the present day.[164][168] The Delta and Pine Land Company intended to commercialize the technology,[163] but D&PL was acquired by Monsanto in 2007.[169]

Even though it's promise is said to be displayed on their site, I didn't find it although I didn't look too far into the site either but only scanned over a page or two.