"Drill baby Drill" and finish this pipeline deal with Canada so we can flood the market with oil. Let the pricks in the sandbox live in the middle ages if they want.
It is my understanding that Obama has allowed more drilling in his term than Bush II's admin did. This argument is, therefore, I think, something of a canard.
Nothing to do with bush, obama, or any political he said she said bullshit. We have all kinds of it and we should be using it for ourselves. While we use the couple hundred or so years supply between us and Canada, we can partner to develop a viable, and affordable, alternative energy source. We are killing ourselves forcing inefficient alternatives on ourselves while our competitors aren't burdened with it.
As well it would remove our dependance on the truly backwards assclowns in the desert and lessen much of their power and influence. With the right leadership this alone could bring much of our military home, over time.
End farm subsidies for industrial farms.
I'd be willing to look at that, for sure.
It's ridiculous, they don't need new tractors every couple yrs, and if they do they can pay for it.
Full disclosure that I have a little farm and am a firm supporter of true farmers. Not the industrial complexes that try to sound like the local family farm to get folks sympathy.
Name the loopholes. I do truly get sick of this complain when not one of you is willing to tell me one loophole in the tax code you object to. This is a bit of sage advice that has NO substance.
How many are there in the tax code? Get rid of every one. I favor a combination of a 9-9-9 type approach, but that likely needs some tweaking.
Knowing the tax code inside out is way above my pay-grade, but I know what I spend a year getting someone to do my taxes, and go through god knows how many thousand receipts, so there must be some that can be cut out of the code.
Tell it to the BANSTERS whose asses we had to save to keep the economy from melting down.
The way we are going the economy is going to melt down eventually anyway. We would be better off getting through it with a 10trillion debt going in, than the 20,30 40? trillion we'll be in debt after artificially keeping it going longer than we should.
I know many don't believe this debt is a big deal, but how far can we seriously go in debt before it blows up? Regardless of political stripe we're fucked if we stay on this path of snowballing debt.
Aye! But what IS required? There's the rub.
Well, one thing I know for sure, paying to teach Africans to wash their ballsack isn't.
The above says exactly nothing.
Sure it does, if you have your health, and you've been on the dole for a set period of time, (2yrs is plenty imo), get off your ass and do something.
Just legalize it. No reason whatever to tax it.
I would like it treated like alcohol, and think we need to if we are ever to end this nonsensical so called "war on drugs", but put it to the people in a true democratic vote would be best imo.
EDIT: I think a tax will eventually be a required compromise to get reasonable conservatives on board. It wouldn't be all bad though. I think a big share of smokers would also be collecting governmental handouts of some sort so we would be getting some of the funds back. Lord knows most of them would be too lazy to grow their own.
How about the death penalty for POLS and the bribers, instead?
Sounds good too me!
Stop the outsourcing that began under, yep Ronald Reagan, and I promise it will totally fix the economy! I will also add that NAFTA has been a failure for most Americans, too, the 99% at least. Both of these stupid treaty-like practices on the part of our large corporations are gutting our country ... can't get much plainer than that! I'll bring God into the discussion, too. It would take an end-time, one-world government for insane, self-sacrificial policy-whims such as these aforementioned to succeed. Then, the success would be already, decidedly short-lived. It defies the purpose of a nation for it to embrace globalization to the extent we have. No other country operates this way, even in the 21st century, except for us with regard to our labor force. We are already witnessing multiple problems in the European markets which point back to the European Union. Anyway, the folks that began this horrible experiment against USA labor should be called just what they are: treasonous! No one better blame the unions for it and it reach my ears either. That's just an old tired excuse by now---an old tired excuse to have mainly corporate America run the show, prosper, and to heck with everyone else.
